Flashermac Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 The culture minister demands a meeting with organisers of 'Thailand's Got Talent' after the popular programme aired a female contestant painting on a canvas with her bare breasts on national television on Sunday. Culture Minister Sukumol Khunploem said on Monday that the programme had high ratings and people of all ages watched it. However, the programme was televised when children were likely to be watching, she said. "There must be limits on artistic expression. I was shocked when I saw the clip," Ms Sukumol said. "The ministry will meet the organisers of Thailand's Got Talent to get an explanation." The show was pre-recorded and not a live broadcast and the organisers could edit "inappropriate" content, she added. Film and family values campaigner Rabiabrat Pongpanich said Thailand's Got Talent focused too much on business and the broadcaster should censor the acts before the live audition. "Thai society does not accept this. The police will consider whether this is obscene," Ms Rabiabrat said. "This also shows that Thai society is ailing and it's becoming a sex-consuming society." The clip, uploaded to YouTube by DuangAesthetic, shows the Thailand's Got Talent contestant removing her shirt and bra, pouring paint on her bare breasts and rubbing her body on the canvas. One of the three judges, a woman celebrity, said the act was inappropriate to the country's culture and she expressed her disappointment with many of the audience who voiced their support for the 23-year-old contestant. She later walked off the stage. Two other judges, both men, said the woman passed the audition, saying the act was another type of artistic expression. The contestant told the judges that if she painted normally there would be nothing special. In a Thai web board website, some Thai netizens criticised Pornchita "Benz" Na Songkhla, the celebrity judge who rejected the act. They said Benz had also taken part in a similar "artistic expression" in a photo shoot for a magazine in the past. My link Pornchita in paint: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sDlOxMLk_bY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I found her act quite entertaining myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 and her name is......porn-chita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I found her act quite entertaining myself Probably get a job in Soi Cowboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Hi, Hmm, tough one this. While I certainly do not condone censorship, I am not sure if this was appropriate in a show like this. I also do not consider this art, but I guess that is irrelevant. Cultural values are certainly changing in this country - and they are most definitely hypocrytes when it comes to nudity & sex - I don't see how showing something like this on national TV will help, rather the opposite I'd say. Oh, and btw, how would this have gone over in many other countries? The US for instance. Having said that, I'd have no problem with her painting my house Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWF1Pzbijs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Storm in a tea cup. The female breast is the most unusually treasured body part in recent history. When women used to go about topless in the majority of the world, no body cared. Now you can be imprisoned in the right circumstances, for showing or wanting to see one. It's not like the sight of one will turn you to stone, or make your legs drop off, or your teeth turn green. We've all had 'em, from when a baby, to (for most men) on and off again as one is progressing through life. Women even own a pair (generally) and some of them like 'em too. This prohibition about displaying them in public is ridiculous, the point that children might see them is stupid, most all kids are recently weaned from them, they know what they are and they know what they look and taste like. To demonize the sight (and touch/taste/smell) of them, is to tell kids that there is evil here and bad things will happen if you pursue them. Victorians used to say the same things about ankles, and Arabs about monobrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSTEACH Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 "It's not like the sight of one will turn you to stone, or make your legs drop off, or your teeth turn green." yea but some sure can give you a woodie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadfly Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Storm in a tea cup. The female breast is the most unusually treasured body part in recent history. When women used to go about topless in the majority of the world, no body cared. Now you can be imprisoned in the right circumstances, for showing or wanting to see one. It's not like the sight of one will turn you to stone, or make your legs drop off, or your teeth turn green. We've all had 'em, from when a baby, to (for most men) on and off again as one is progressing through life. Women even own a pair (generally) and some of them like 'em too. This prohibition about displaying them in public is ridiculous, the point that children might see them is stupid, most all kids are recently weaned from them, they know what they are and they know what they look and taste like. To demonize the sight (and touch/taste/smell) of them, is to tell kids that there is evil here and bad things will happen if you pursue them. Victorians used to say the same things about ankles, and Arabs about monobrows. Excellent Point. And odd that this is dominating local news, as if nothing else is going on in Thailand. Why report on anything difficult or controversial (like following up on the CC decision), when you can fill the front page with this fluff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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