RE: Mainstream TV nudity vs babeshow nudity
I know its fast becoming a cliche to mention Sexcetera, but specifics matter.
23:40 Sky channel 122 LivingIt today. Sexcetera.
Its the one about German rubber fetishists.
Caught a glimpse of a clit ring and a full frontal pus*y. The ring was visible for a second or two, the full frontal showed a standing woman from knees to head for 5-10 seconds, so not close up, but similar strength to some european channels. Either of these would be sufficient to get an adult channel a severe reprimand. Later a clearer open legged shot was pixellated, the ones mentioned above were not.
Then we were shown a woman in rubber having her hands tied to the end of a bed - restraint is a big no-no with the BBFC. The woman then had fingers intrusively thrust into her mouth while it appeared that a woman with a strap on was vaginally penetrating her - this was not clearly visible but implied by the position and "a viewer could reasonably believe it to be real" as Ofcom might put it.
A photograph in the background showed a woman drinking from what appeared to be a large clear bowl of urine.
This was followed by a segment on a swingers dating site and a swingers club. Communal sex was shown, no detail but what was happening was unambiguous.
A naked man was shown with bound testicles having something poured over his clearly visible (flacid) penis.
Very brief shot of what appeared to be a butt plug getting rammed somewhere, but too brief to be sure.
Short scene featuring a man identified as "Gelding" whose penis was shown being stretched in ways that looked very uncomfortable, painful even.
A woman was shown with about 6 pegs or clamps attached to each breast.
23:55 Pixellated close up image of a naked woman lowering herself onto a large dildo in a public club. Pixellated but flaps could just be made out. The fit young woman then proceeded to deep throat a grey double ended didlo, taking about 6-10 inches down her throat. This was not pixellated. This took place in front of a large audience "which would have the effect of raising the erotic impact" as Ofcom might put it (Im thinking of their comments about Asian Babes).
00:00 A woman is being banged from behind by one man while she eats out another woman. Her mouth can clearly be seen on the other womans genital area and a small amount of displaced outer labia may be visible. No pixellation. Similar in strength to encrypted live sex shows.
00:02 Two fit naked young women on a boat. One has open legs towards the camera, the other is vigorously masterbating her. Pixellated but pretty clear what is going on. This strength material - shown from a greater distance - got SportXXX in trouble years ago when they ran pixellated pre encryption shows.
COMMENTARY
This is an unencryped channel outside the adult area. It is in the low numbered channels, reflecting relative popularity (Sky recently reorganised, putting more popular channels nearer 100). The show is repeated frequently, so it is hard to argue that it has a serious educational or informative role - it quickly becomes a repeat that imparts no new information. This suggests that the shows are for erotic entertainment/sexual arousal/humour in order to sell advertising space or bolster subscriptions (only available with a viewing card).
Ofcoms survey into public attitudes showed that while there was acceptance of sexual content, either for genuine dramatic effect, documentary purposes/sex education or in discreet adult entertainment channels, there was unease and markedly less tolerance of "perverse" sex such as anal, watersports, bondage, S&M and group. In other words the average Daily Mail reader accepted straight sex and full on nudity, thing they might be exposed to in their own bedrooms, but not stuff that went beyond their own personal boundaries.
The relevance of this is that that Sexcetera, on a general entertainment channel aimed at a mixed audience has featured a range of so called "preverse" sexual activities that would be sufficient to require a babe channel to have mandatory encryption regardless of the degree of nudity.
Gone fishing
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