[LostInBayport]

I gave up television a few years ago. I watch DVDs of some tv shows I like now and then. Call me whatever, but I have nearly always avoided R-rated movies. You won't find any in my DVD collection.

When I visit other people, and they have television on, I am often shocked to the point of revulsion at the level of violence and language in current television shows (never mind movies). Being away from TV for years and then seeing it again is reveals just how desensitized one can become to it.

There is a lot of sickness in our popular culture, and it can't be good for kids.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Even something reasonably interesting, like the series Penny Dreadful can have lurid content. It's set in Victorian Era london, but every so often, you'd have a woman lifting up her petticoat to bang some alpha male like an animal.

[miss marmelstein]

We have a vast collection of dvds - only classic American movies, foreign films and mostly British comedies and dramas. Very few are R-rated unless they are absolute classics of motion picture history. I watch the Food Network and Fox & Friends...and that is it. A friend of mine in England, who is a member of BAFTA, continually writes about the hideous violence in modern movies - and she is mostly watching well-received independents. Satan army is certainly on the march and doing well.