(09-09-2011 22:05 )Light Entertainment Wrote:  As I see it, there's a high risk that, if successful, a petition like this could put some or even all babeshows out of business. If Ofcom relaxed the rules on sexual content, it wouldn't just be babeshows who'd be at liberty to take immediate advantage of the new situation. Once you uncensor content in the way many of the people signing this petition would like, there's no reason why you can't get 'porn' springing up everywhere - not just on babe channels. By 'porn' I simply mean explicit sexually-themed material, there for its own sake and with no other context. Even one or more of the 'big' mainstream channels may consider adult-themed content for through-the-night transmission if it was established that public opposition no longer existed, and the regulators were to lift the current restrictions. This would assume something of a cultural change in the UK of course, but without that cultural change, a petition of this type could never achieve its aims anyway.

Who knows for sure what effect the above would have, but it's hard to see the babeshows in their current format being able to brush off a much wider realm of available adult entertainment across more powerful channels - much of it perhaps offered as a completely free experience for the viewer and financed by a trad advertising model. I can't really imagine how you could open the floodgates to 'free TV porn', and not see a catastrophic plunge in business for all pay-service sex-themed formats virtually overnight.

As StanTheMan says, the babeshows have a nice little business going (well, it's quite a big business in some cases). Change the boundaries, and potentially, babeshows suddenly have to compete with a raft of much more visually explicit content than a lot of their own girls are prepared to provide. Consider that the alternatives could be free, and where does that leave the babe channels, with what in all honesty is an expensive and notoriously unreliable service? Some niche viewers would doubtless still follow the babeshows (I would). But how many of those casual viewers considered so important by some shows would still spend money on babe channel services when they could just flick channels and bash one off over a 'sanitised porn film'? If the casual viewers are as big a commercial component as some channel reps have implied, the result as I see it could be a crisis for some babeshows, and the end for others.

True, it is a pain for the channels having to 'police' slips and stay compliant - especially when an act is used to more explicit work and being 'free and easy' with her performances. But my sense is that the channels would much rather put up with that little bit of hassle and observe the current rules, than open the whole thing up to the prospect of 'free TV porn' and all the commercial risk that would bring. Babeshows are at least in part a product of the environment, and commercially they thrive on not being able to show or say certain things. But what's most important at present is that no one else can come along and show/say those things - not for the purpose of sexual stimulation, anyway. If they could, suddenly it would be a completely different environment.

I respect the efforts of those who've stood up for what they believe in with this petition, but my impression is that the shows themselves very avidly don't want anything changed. I'd rather have babeshows as they are than a homogenised loop of 'sanitised porn films' every night, which could very well be where night time TV would head if explicit sexual material became viable for free to air transmission. I fall into the "careful what you wish for" category. But that's only my perception, of course.

(07-09-2011 20:14 )Chilly Wrote:  I do agree about the babe channels being an easy target, but in so many ways the channels make themselves an easy target.

(09-09-2011 18:30 )shankey! Wrote:  mines a simple question,why havent any of the babes themselves signied it?

(09-09-2011 22:05 )Light Entertainment Wrote:  If Ofcom relaxed the rules on sexual content, it wouldn't just be babeshows who'd be at liberty to take immediate advantage of the new situation.

(09-09-2011 22:05 )Light Entertainment Wrote:  [Ofcom shit]

(10-09-2011 13:51 )shankey! Wrote:  

(09-09-2011 22:05 )Light Entertainment Wrote:  [Ofcom shit]

well said,the fact also being on the other hand that in the current state of play some channels have already gone because of the strict nature ofcom pursues ,i dont for one minute expect ever to see graphic porn on tv ,but i simply cant see the harm in a babe show being exactly that ,with models being allowed to portray themselves without having to constantly be told off for "baring" too much or ofcom issuing fines for silly little mishaps what happen in everyday life,what else do people expect to see on these channels ,a night version of loose women?

(10-09-2011 13:51 )shankey! Wrote:  

(09-09-2011 22:05 )Light Entertainment Wrote:  [Ofcom shit]

what else do people expect to see on these channels ,a night version of loose women?

(10-09-2011 18:55 )continental19 Wrote:  ... i tend to feel it's Ofcoms excuse just to have more control and incur more fines as they see fit, and all the rest is just smoke and mirrors.