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@Uair @Pistolenkind You wouldn't believe what we could see on TV in Europe in the 1980s to 2000s, especially French, Italian, and German channels. We had amateur striptease shows like Tutti Frutti. We had uncensored erotic movies on TV, just no hardcore porn (which basically meant no genital close-ups, no erect penises, no visible penetration, there was a lot of 1970s softcore porn that ran completely uncensored). After 2200h, a lot becomes possible on TV, and after midnight, things get really wild.
Of course, we had a lot of gratuitous nudity in advertising back then. There were ads with nude women hugging computer hardware in IT magazines.
In teen drama series, you could see a pretty young actress topless at teatime every once in a while. If it was just a (not too big) pair of tits, and if it didn't remain on screen for more than a minute or so, it was perfectly fine. I don't know how it is now because I basically stopped watching TV on a regular basis around 2008.
I also remember newspapers having the same arguments over and over the day after every nude scene on afternoon or early evening TV. And every time a fictional criminal investigator used some dirty word. Must we expose our children to all this nudity, and can we allow a police officer to use foul language on TV? However, advertising was just advertising, and sex sells, so you basically only read anything critical about them in EMMA and other feminist zines.

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