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18 June, 2006
More porn please
If the FCC has a comment line where I can demand more smut on TV and radio, I would like to know what it is. This isn't for my own benefit, as I have no trouble finding sweaty bodies to watch. I am just concerned about the good people at the American Family Association. They need this info, fast.
As it stands, they are using their Internet bandwidth broadcasting video recordings of the most banal, soft-core porn -- from prime time -- to their eager, hungry audience.
Clearly, the "Family" folks are desperate. Maybe there aren't good video stores in their small towns, or maybe they haven't quite figured out the Internets. Or even more likely, they can't wait through the dullness of prime-time dramas and the bizarrely psychadelic commercials (fairies coming and touching you in the sleep? a woman's head projecting from your shoulder at all times? a guy with a bunch of stuffed fruit on his head playing cards in the park with people who are trying not to notice? Acid, anyone?) to see action considerably more tame than what I saw today at Coney Island. (Speaking of which, is there a V-chip for the beach?) Instead they go to the Cliff Notes version for the juicy bits. (Via This Modern World.)
The problem comes when they write the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to request more concentrated and revealing porn in prime-time. They keep messing up and using the complaint line, a practice that recently landed CBS with a $3.3 million obscenity fine.
Please, help the Families. Find us the "more porn, please" line at the FCC!
As it stands, they are using their Internet bandwidth broadcasting video recordings of the most banal, soft-core porn -- from prime time -- to their eager, hungry audience.
Clearly, the "Family" folks are desperate. Maybe there aren't good video stores in their small towns, or maybe they haven't quite figured out the Internets. Or even more likely, they can't wait through the dullness of prime-time dramas and the bizarrely psychadelic commercials (fairies coming and touching you in the sleep? a woman's head projecting from your shoulder at all times? a guy with a bunch of stuffed fruit on his head playing cards in the park with people who are trying not to notice? Acid, anyone?) to see action considerably more tame than what I saw today at Coney Island. (Speaking of which, is there a V-chip for the beach?) Instead they go to the Cliff Notes version for the juicy bits. (Via This Modern World.)
The problem comes when they write the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to request more concentrated and revealing porn in prime-time. They keep messing up and using the complaint line, a practice that recently landed CBS with a $3.3 million obscenity fine.
Please, help the Families. Find us the "more porn, please" line at the FCC!
Comments
GAH. This stuff makes me so angry. Why would you possibly care what was on TV? Because you're afraid your kids will watch it. Why would your kids possibly watch it without your supervision? B/c you've given them their own TV . That's American Family for you!!!!
I watched tons of TV as a child, and I liked it a lot. Unlike most non-TV watchers, I don't have anything against it--I just don't watch it to save time. (I mostly go through the Daily Show/Colbert online.) I often wish I had time to watch PBS and Current and even a little bit of the networks.
You know what about those tons of TV shows I watched as a child? I watched them supervised. My mother put much more than the fear of God in me when it came to what I watched. I still remember the mountain of disapproval that came crashing down on me the ONE time I dared try to change the channel from Childrens Television Workshop to soap operas. Of course, this was also a woman who started showing me Hitchcock when I was 7 and took me to see The Last Emperor when I was 9, but the point is, she was there. When she wasn't there, I could read a book or play, but no TV. Honestly, she just told me no TV, and I pretty much listened, but it's actually possible to lock the plug if you can't trust your kids. It's not that hard.
So if you're going to use a TV as a babysitter, and stick one in their rooms so you can watch your shows without them, I have zero sympathy for you. Well, maybe a little. My mother says watching Sesame Street with me and goofing off and singing the wacky songs are some of her fonder memories of our childhoods, so I guess I feel sorry for the people who miss out on that because they've so killed their inner muppet they can't be silly even with their kids. Which sounds a lot like these people.
Posted by Saheli
I watched tons of TV as a child, and I liked it a lot. Unlike most non-TV watchers, I don't have anything against it--I just don't watch it to save time. (I mostly go through the Daily Show/Colbert online.) I often wish I had time to watch PBS and Current and even a little bit of the networks.
You know what about those tons of TV shows I watched as a child? I watched them supervised. My mother put much more than the fear of God in me when it came to what I watched. I still remember the mountain of disapproval that came crashing down on me the ONE time I dared try to change the channel from Childrens Television Workshop to soap operas. Of course, this was also a woman who started showing me Hitchcock when I was 7 and took me to see The Last Emperor when I was 9, but the point is, she was there. When she wasn't there, I could read a book or play, but no TV. Honestly, she just told me no TV, and I pretty much listened, but it's actually possible to lock the plug if you can't trust your kids. It's not that hard.
So if you're going to use a TV as a babysitter, and stick one in their rooms so you can watch your shows without them, I have zero sympathy for you. Well, maybe a little. My mother says watching Sesame Street with me and goofing off and singing the wacky songs are some of her fonder memories of our childhoods, so I guess I feel sorry for the people who miss out on that because they've so killed their inner muppet they can't be silly even with their kids. Which sounds a lot like these people.
Posted by Saheli
This is how many Christians respond to important issues; the environment, gay rights, birth control, AIDs prevention, science, education, war, et al. They do what their religion tells them rather than thinking for themselves.
Posted by Porn Student
Posted by Porn Student
