Conservative parents group mad at 'Men'

The Parents Television Council, a conservative TV watchdog group, issued a complaint against AMC's "Mad Men" because of the show's TV-14 rating (for viewers age 14 and older). The PTC believes the rating should be TV-MA (for mature audiences only).

The PTC's complaint read: "AMC gave the show a TV-14 (L, S) rating, which means that the company thinks that the episode was appropriate for 14-year-old children. The basic cable episode contained a shot of a character's hand going down into the underwear of another character for sexual stimulation, a half-naked woman whose hands covered her breasts just before insinuating that she had sex with another character, and a graphic scene with a prostitute that repeats several times, 'I'm gonna cut your dick off and boil it in hog fat.'"

Bloggers and critics including the ever-liberal Perez Hilton and Time's James Poniewozik have insinuated that the PTC's complaint originated because of last season's gay kiss between Sal and the bellhop.