(17-06-2011 18:11 )StanTheMan Wrote: ... I've just watched a recording of an episode of Only Fools and Horses that went out yesterday daytime. In it, there's a scene where Del is talking to Rodney in the flat and behind them, hung on the wall, is a calendar featuring a topless model... and yes, they'd overlayed a little blurred box on her tits. ...
The absurdity is that the topless calendar is totally justified by context. 3 men living without female company would see nothing wrong with a bit of softcore "artistic" nudity on the wall.
There is a passage in Small Gods by Terry Pratchett where a condemmed man says the real evil of the Chief Inquisitor is not what he does, but that he gets people to do it to themselves. Uncertainty means most broadcasters will self censor, resulting a completely unrealistic broadcasting landscape that does not reflect the vocabulary used by ordinary people or ordinary peoples range of interests, but the fake sanitised act they put on for meeting with their kids head teacher or the vicar.
Remember Pans People? There was always a lively debate the next day about whether their nipples had been on show.
Or Benny Hill and Hills Angels with steamy crotch shots in some of the dance scenes, on prime time family TV at 8pm.
And that topless calendar, illustrative of nieve political incorrectness, is emblematic of The Sun and The Star, popular family newspapers openly read by men and women during the day, not furtive adult reading.
PS. Thanks to the Controller of Channel 4 for "The Sex Researchers" last night, first in the series. Two brief glimpses of pussy, one clear dangly cock, and what looked suspiciously like the base of a penis and balls in a shagging scene at an angle that could only have been consistent with actual penetrative sex. Most of the scenes, including the above, seem to have been purposely filmed reconstructions. How can I get a job in TV? Narrated by Robert Webb.
EDIT: The show included a discussion of Henry Havelock Ellis, who was impotent, married a lesbian, and was had a condition he called "undinism", now known as "urolagnia", with two discreet tame reenactments. So there you have it, discussion and reenactment of golden showers on Channel 4. Knew it was just a matter of time.