On Television, Married Sex is Portrayed as the Lousy Thing It Is
Whine: Parents Television Council

The Parents Television Council, whose criticism of Gossip Girl was used as part of the show's marketing campaign, has found something new to criticize: sex on television. Actually, yes, they've gone there before, but this time it's different: They're mad that sex between two married people is shown as the boring, trite interpersonal exchange that it is, while sex between two unmarried people is shown as a hot, nasty, animal event, which in real life, it usually is. For their new study "Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast TV," the PTC watched more than 200 hours of televised innuendo and found "verbal references to nonmarital sex outnumber references to sex in marriage nearly 3 to 1," and other shocking statistics like, "references to incest, pedophilia, partner swapping, prostitution, threesomes, transsexuals/transvestites, bestiality and necrophilia combined outnumbered references to sex in marriage on NBC by a ratio of 27 to 1." To be fair, Tina Fey is is a genius.

Aug 6, 2008 · posted by david · Link · 1 Response
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No. 1 Charity says:

Poor PTC, just HAVING to watch all 200 hours of smut! Sob! How could they possibly STAND IT?!

Posted: Aug 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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