Forbidden now are the depiction or discussion of "sexual or excretory activities or organs" in terms "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."
They are based on what "depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs".
The agency defines the material as "patently offensive," depicting graphic "sexual or excretory activities" or sexual organs.
Many profanities might be considered "patently offensive" descriptions of "sexual or excretory activities or organs," especially under the standards of some conservative communities.
The Federal Communications Commission defines indecent material as that containing "patently offensive" references to "sexual or excretory activities" although it falls short of being obscene.
Please consider that we don't have any high tech lab equipment.... Replies: Leslee, One idea for an excretory activity demonstrates how the kidneys work as filters.
Indecent was defined as anything that "in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs."
Lawyers for Gillett argued that the advertisements showed what appeared to be "excretory activity," but the commision disagreed.
"Indecent" programming has been broadly defined by the courts as "patently offensive" language or material that depicts "sexual or excretory activities or organs."
The life lies in the excretory activity.