hmmm, roerzman, I'm wondering exactly what your theory is?
 
That now the 60s feminists are in government we therefore have a more sexually judgemental society? Whereas, in Japan, where the men are in charge, perversity runs wild?

Well, I can't speak for Japan. But as for what we'd have to call 'the West', I think there's more to it.

Firstly, I'd question the amount of control that governments wield in regard to societal atitudes towards sex and its representation in movies and videogames. Then I'd ask how many of the female politicians we have cracking the whip today actually are genuine feminists, or indeed whether any of them are the same sorts of feminist. There are feminists today who believe that the 'free love' of the 60s etc. was a regressive entrapment of women, and then there are those who make feminist porn. I'd also question whether there is less sex and nudity in popular culture today - quite the opposite I suspect. Certainly as far as taboos go I wonder how many are yet to be broken in one cultural strand or another.

I suppose I'd venture the (hardly groundbreaking) conclusion that cycles in societal attitudes towards anything are inevitable and generational reaction a norm. People harp on about political correctness but I wonder whether any society has freed its citizens from the need to conform and whether current societies put any more pressure on people than previous ones. I do think that we've reached a fairly libertarian stage where what people actually say about things doesn't match what they do behind closed doors - not that this is always a bad thing. And that there were probably enthusiastic and reluctant women participants in the 'free love' movement just as there were doubtless benign and exploitative men.

And regarding CC in the sims 3???!!!!!

Well, frankly, I'll be p**ed if there isn't any. The minute I discovered insimenator for Sims 2 I was getting up to all sorts of mischief. The prospect of doing it again with even smoother polygons?? Please let it happen!