Posted on 10/06/2009 9:34:31 AM PDT by Steelfish
October 6, 2009 Explicit Sex Returns To TV
Explicit sex scenes are in vogue again on TV, with new series such as True Blood — and this time women are calling the shots
Andrew Billen When was it that I realised that Percy Filth — as Jack Rosenthal’s sitcom The Lovers called sex around the time that television invented it — had made a return to the box? Was it in the early minutes of Rome four years ago when Polly Walker as the voluptuous Atia energetically turned a freeman into her sex slave? Was it two years later when Californication debuted with a nun performing oral sex on David Duchovny? Or was it during this summer’s run of Desperate Romantics , a riskily unstuffy drama about the Pre-Raphaelites that required its actors, in the interests of historical authenticity, to agree to wear pubic hair wigs?
Actually, I think it was in August in Midsomer Murders. Detective Constable Jones became transfixed by an undraped model at a modelling class, and so did the camera. Objectors would have got short shrift.
Within weeks Ofcom, television’s regulator, had rejected 37 complaints attracted by nudity on a Channel 4 programme called Life Class, and that went out at 12.30pm. But if Midsomer Murders, the darling of Middle England, was casually showing naked breasts before the watershed then truly had television exorcised the spirit of Mary Whitehouse Let me be frank.
I was a child of the Sixties, which made me an adolescent of the Seventies. I may have now reached the age when I want to fast-forward sex scenes to get back to the plot, but bliss was it in that dawn to be male and pubescent. Sex was saturating the culture. Sitcoms such as The Lovers....
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Most tvs have a channel selector not far from the on/off switch.
Just what we need .... more sex. That should drive up the sale of condoms and abortions, right? (/sarc)
I must have missed that episode of Rome. All the shows that the author is talking about are on cable.
Hollyweird just wants to normalize child sex
condoms now in child sizes.
Porn for Kids coming soon... oh right schools already do that
right down Letterman’s alley, eh?
The women have always called the shots.
Those first few years of NYPD Blue were pretty explicit, nudity, there were a couple of scenes of David Caruso which left nothing to the imagination, several episodes, and they were on network prime time, not cable. I didn't watch too many of the Jimmy Smits years, none later, so I don't know if they kept it up, but I recall that was the major selling point of the show, that Bochco was pushing the boundaries of network TV.
“Explicit sex isn’t my cup of tea, unless of course it’s happening to me!” -— Ted Nugent
I thought the only thing you saw on NYPD Blue was butt.
When did UK telly ever NOT have explicit sex on it? I’m not talking ‘cable’ here, either!
No full frontal, though there were some breast shots — by nothing to the imagination, I’m talking action, you knew precisely what was going on.
Uh, turn it off if you don’t want to watch it?
We are reevaluating our TV intake.
You can always boycott. After a while, you don’t miss it. Videos only here, much healthier for the children.
More than anything, what ticks me off, is the placement of very age inappropriate advertising of products/programming during children’s (or family) programs.
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I have never heard of Polly Walker but wow!:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4060518400/nm0908116
Not guilty
Go rent “8 ½ Women” and you’ll see all of Polly you’d ever want to see. Wow.
Who watches tv?
Why waste time?
We read out loud at our house. Much better for you. Much more entertaining.
Turn off the cable, Netflix will suffice, and so will the library.
Still not sure what is so hard to understand about that one simple point...
If you don't like it... don't look. No one is forcing you.
The Rome series is top notch.
The same can be said for porn in public. No one has to look, but I think most people will still agree that porn magazines should be covered up on the shelves.
Another point worth mentioning is TV broadcasts are directly subsidized by the state through the infrastructure. It’s not unreasonable to limit what we sponsor. Nobody is saying that porn should be banned, just that it should be out of the public eye, not broadcast directly after children’s shows etc.
As a guy I don’t mind porn, but when I sit down to watch Stargate Universe with my sister I would rather not find myself watching softcore porn beside her... I expect this is true of most people. So why is it wrong to complain and try to make entertainment more family friendly? There is nothing wrong with a bit of social pressure.
I am not sure how it is in Europe, but in the US the reason people have premium cable, is for nudity, sex, and violence premium cable has to offer.
Do you REALLY want the PERVERTS in most world governments setting ANY kind of moral standard into codified law?
It used to be that cable was a way to *escape* the filth fests on network TV. Not anymore.The sewer prevails almost everywhere on the electronic commode. TV:TeleVenom.
>>>I have never heard of Polly Walker but wow!:
I have it on good authority Polly Walker doodles all the day.
For example, ads that briefly show a pair of women’s panties.
I see that Web site thinks an allegory for Jesus is a tool of the devil.
Not so much that, not really different from the swimming pool in what's shown. No, this is things that are being shown during programs designed for young children or whole families that are very age inappropriate - male enhancement, female "problems", raunchy late-night or adult-themed shows. I mean, I'd love to sit and watch the Power Block on Spike with my nearly six-year-old son because he likes cars, and he thinks a lot of the stuff they do is cool - sometimes lame - but you have to be a "Remote Ninja" to deal with it.
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