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Explicit Sex Returns To TV [Mainstreaming Homosexuality, Now Porn]
London Times ^ | October 06, 2009

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; jiggleshows; moralabsolutes; pornification; ratings; sexpositiveagenda; sexscenes
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To: isom35

Go rent “8 ½ Women” and you’ll see all of Polly you’d ever want to see. Wow.


21 posted on 10/06/2009 1:11:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Steelfish

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.


22 posted on 10/06/2009 1:24:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: Perdogg
Even more than that, HBO or Showtime. It isn't like they are even on expanded basic in the US. I was always under the impression that Europe was always a little more open with those things anyway.

Equally, the revered men who made The Wire displayed a strong preference for nude scenes featuring top-heavy young actresses.

This reminds me of the commentary for an episode on Season 2. One of the characters had a very buxom girlfriend on the show and in one episode she is topless (although not a sex scene). The two actors commentating on the episode spend a good amount of time talking about her and seem pretty sad when they realize they aren't watching that episode.

And on that note, seriously, anyone who hasn't watched The Wire should do so immediately. Nothing on TV has ever come close to being as good as it was.
23 posted on 10/06/2009 1:34:14 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: stuartcr
Most tvs have a channel selector not far from the on/off switch.

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.

24 posted on 10/06/2009 1:40:31 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: isom35
I have never heard of Polly Walker but wow!:

The Rome series is top notch.

25 posted on 10/06/2009 2:11:51 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Dead Corpse

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.


26 posted on 10/06/2009 2:58:41 PM PDT by LastNorwegian
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To: LastNorwegian

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.


27 posted on 10/06/2009 6:19:23 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: LastNorwegian
Change the channel. Stargate is on a PAY channel. Stop paying for it. Send them a letter telling them why you are stopping your support.

Do you REALLY want the PERVERTS in most world governments setting ANY kind of moral standard into codified law?

28 posted on 10/06/2009 7:00:35 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Perdogg

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.


29 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:23 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Steelfish
The dead devil is pushing filth down the throats of earth's people and they line up with their mouths open. People shouldn't be at all shocked when they wake up in the flames of hell and it's forever, forever existing, dead, but conscious.
30 posted on 10/06/2009 11:12:18 PM PDT by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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To: isom35; numberonepal; Steelfish

>>>I have never heard of Polly Walker but wow!:

I have it on good authority Polly Walker doodles all the day.


31 posted on 10/07/2009 2:44:12 AM PDT by tlb
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To: IYAS9YAS

For example, ads that briefly show a pair of women’s panties.


32 posted on 10/07/2009 3:55:39 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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33 posted on 10/07/2009 4:01:33 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: myknowledge

I see that Web site thinks an allegory for Jesus is a tool of the devil.


34 posted on 10/07/2009 5:05:50 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: myknowledge
For example, ads that briefly show a pair of women’s panties.

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.

35 posted on 10/07/2009 6:47:26 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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