That's funny, I don't feel corrupted...

My local PBS station (WHRO CH. 15) has started airing the Monty Python episodes again, at 11 pm, Friday nights.

When I saw them the first time 'round, I must have been about 10 or so -- give or take a couple of years on either side (in the '70's). And I have the distinct memory of the shows being on in early primetime.

Now, as I watch the show, I'm stunned that there was ever a time when a respectable tv station would dare show the program if any person under the age of 15 could possibly be watching.

I vaguely remember, from back then, the cartoon bits with all the naked ladies in them. But they never registered as having any more particular interest than the giant hedgehogs and flying sheep. The "oo-er, naughty, sexy!" bit of the humor went so high over my head, I never even felt the whoosh of air.

I think that's what the tv programmers must have been assuming. And they were right.

So -- what's changed? Are this generations' kids really becoming sexually aware at an earlier and earlier age (and if so, I blame the hormones in our food supply)? Or are they just picking up on the adults' paranoia, and getting a lurid fascination with sex because it's a forbidden topic? Or would 10 year-olds today be just as oblivious to the naked ladies as I was, if they were given the chance?

Or was I just wierd not to notice the nakedness of those ladies, way back the first time?

Just wondering...