History Main / NippleAndDimed

* Website/TVTropes: This very page has gone through countless images, to EditWar levels at times. Images have included an uncensored human breast on the grounds that the shock it would elicit would aptly demonstrate the trope, the same image with the nipple censored, a blue-footed booby for the pun appeal, a rubber nipple from a baby bottle, and several others. The arguments on the discussion page were epic.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' subverts the trope only for prepubescent females such as Lily Loud and Lana Loud.

** The creators decided that showing breasts on TV is ok, as long as they aren't attached to a woman's body. The result was the Heavy Metal parody Major Boobage, where literally EVERYTHING was made of breasts or had breasts on it with no censoring. Except, of course, the Hot Chick.

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* In ''Creator/SethMacFarlane's [[WebAnimation/SethMacFarlanesCavalcadeOfCartoonComedy Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy]]'', they do a brief joke on the TV show ''Series/{{Entourage}}''. This trope is basically the punchline.

-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/ "Boobs"]]

## On the one occasion where an advertiser tried to screen a shower advert in which the woman bared a single nipple (and then only after the {{Watershed}}) howls of protest about "indecency" caused them to withdraw the advert. This even though the TV programme to either side of the commercial break, after nine pm, would have been likely to show more naked flesh in a sexualised context.

* An urban legend claims Creator/OliviaHussey was forbidden to attend the premiere of ''Film/{{Romeo and Juliet|1968}}'' (1968) wherein she played the female lead, because of the nude scene. This was brought on by papers mistakenly reporting her as being only fifteen at the time. But she had turned sixteen, which meant she would have been allowed in. What's more is that she could legally have viewed the film while underage if a parent or guardian accompanied her. The whole idea was especially dumb considering that it's ''her'' nude scene in the movie - she was somehow going to be corrupted by herself.[[note]]it has come to light, in 2023, that the real reason for Olivia and her co-star not being allowed to attend the premiere was that the director misled her and flat-out lied to her about how the film would be edited: he had assured her that only shoulders-up nudity or nudity from the back would feature. She was excluded so as to prevent her from realising that all of her would be on display. this is now the subject of a retrospective lawsuit against the film's producers.[[/note]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Despite its TV-MA rating, the televised broadcast omits female nipples (unlike the AMC+ streaming edition). All clips of a topless Lily which include her nipples are replaced by different shots of Lestat, Louis or a close-up of Lily's face. The snippets of the prostitute and Antoinette exposing their breasts to Lestat are edited out.

* An underwear sales presentation for the shopping channel Creator/{{QVC}} showing two very attractive women wearing hideously unflattering undergarments went viral on Website/YouTube. When the British sales pitch reached QVC viewers in the USA, it provoked lots of complaints. The reason is apparently that both models had very visible erect nipples under their vests. This highlighted the gulf between British and North American social attitudes to visibly erect female nipples under clothing; it's no big deal in the UK but is apparently almost as bad as toplessness to the USA.[[note]]American style guides for women's clothing do not like this ''at all'' and consider it socially unacceptable.[[/note]] Strangest of all, [[http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/12976-curvaceous-qvc-lingerie-models-gain-online-admirers-real-women-real-curves this American website]] ran an edited excerpt from the show but still considered it necessary to run a CensorBox over the chest of a woman who was otherwise fully covered! [[ValuesDissonance Link is presumably NSFW in the USA but OK everywhere else]]....