Is there too much sex on TV? - Semana.com

The world has definitely changed a lot in recent years. If you think that Hollywood was forbidden until 1950 that a man and a woman sharing bed, now it seems that she does not want to leave. While talking about sex on television is not new, there are several surprising aspects jusistering because they are not surprising.

To start, subscription channels that transmit softcore porn, a type of pornography that show nudity and intimate relationships without displaying the genitals, have long ceased to require a special payment. Also, if this content at a time spent after 12 at night, usually out lately from ten. This leaves many families with teenagers or even younger, they do

zapping at that time, in the uncomfortable situation of falling into an explicit sex scene.

Unlike broadcast television, which is stricter control on the cable channels are free to cast soft porn on a schedule. Since that happens is debated to what extent what is touted as eroticism ends up hardcore porn, more like scrambled (Pay Per View) as Playboy and Venus. This discussion is now compounded by the tendency of the series seem increasingly pornographic films.

Sex and the City

barriers passed in the late nineties talks with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda about sex. But teens today seem dialogs when compared with more recent series like Girls, Game of Thrones, Spartacus, True Blood, The Tudors, The Borgias and Rome. These not only have frontal nudity of women but also of men, which had not been seen before.

addition, the protagonists involved in all kinds of threesomes and orgies that may be heterosexual, lesbian and gay. Although these programs are transmitted premium channels often take more risks and usually are not included in the basic cable package, now just one click to access them through platforms like Apple TV and Netflix.

Rome, a historical drama of 2005 that had two seasons, was the first to break the taboo of frontal nudity. Then followed Spartacus, a series that has managed to survive even though no one has been able to follow his script. In other words, although everyone knows that this is a gladiator who rebels against the Roman Empire, those who do not see the story as such but by the assurance that every ten minutes there will be an explicit sex scene or a jet of blood flying around the screen.

Those two elements make part of the appeal of True Blood, a series about vampires discriminated 2008 trying to be accepted in a conservative society. Here, the already diverse world of contemporary sexuality, we add forbidden intimate relations between humans and vampires, they always have a wild dye.

Three years later, Game of Thrones, the adaptation of the saga of George RR Martin, again put the issue on the table. This is also common to see a scene with two or more people having sex, and the next a good dose of beheadings and saber.

But in this case, what is striking is that, as the story takes place in a medieval fantasy world where live several dynasties, when the writers were faced with the difficult task of explaining which is which, turn to scenes dialogues that make sex more interesting. In fact, several television critics refer to this trick as sexposition, a term to explain how the sex scenes that would be considered free end up being vital to understand the plot.

Girls, successful U.S. time, applies this strategy, although less frequently. From that aired last year have been inevitable comparisons to Sex and the City, it also portrays the lives of four friends in New York. The difference is that women Girls are struggling with the problems of ordinary people, starting with the star and writer, Lena Dunham, who displays his extra kilos without shame.

They not only talk about sex, but that practice of the most creative ways possible. Also if talks Sex and the City were quite daring for the time, girls of Girls cover topics ranging from masturbation and sexual transmitted diseases and abortion until the problems with the rule.

Generally

discussion of this type of content revolves around what is sex so necessary in the development of the plot. Recently a reporter for Wired, for example, sat down to examine several sets scene by scene to determine which warranted it. However, the blood is not measured with the same rake, because rarely does anyone question it.

“Violence is much more widespread and scandalous in today’s television,” he told the critic Myles McNutt WEEK, Cultural Learnings blog author. As Jack Nicholson once said about the age rating: “Cut the breast of a woman with a sword and tell you that you just need to see it under the supervision of an adult to kiss it and prohibit minors”.

The truth is that everyone has the control to manage your cable programming. “First, no one has to subscribe to that service. And second, one of the great promises of pay TV is the plurality of contents, if someone does not like what you see, you can block it, “said Germán Yances, media analyst.

channels which pass this series of soft porn films and also transmit programs to the general public until ten at night and from then on the action begins. But there are several options to prevent children from viewing racy content and can access the rest of the family barbeque during the day.

In any case, some people think that we should not make such a fuss about the tasks and nudity on television, because after all are part of life. “Most people like sex and when you can practice it. If not, you have the option of seeing it. This phenomenon did not create cable television. It is simply human, “said Paul Levinson, professor of communication at Fordham University.

So all that can be shocking to the content of current programs should not harbor the slightest doubt that if you have children over 12 years, they have seen worse on the computer in his room.