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U.S. TV Getting Naughtier - Networks Push Sex More Than Ever (VIDEO)
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Once taboo television topics are now hitting the airwaves pretty regularly during prime time on U.S. television. The Parent Television Council set out to prove that sex on broadcast television has succumbed to the pressures from cable.
Desperate Housewives and Lipstick Jungle are getting raunchier to compete with explicit Secret Diary of a Call Girl and Tell Me You Love Me. The study found that not only is prime time more sexy, it’s also more kinky. The study found shows with masturbation, sex toys, bondage or fetishistic sex. Visual references to a third party voyeur, transvestites, transsexuals, threesomes, kinky sex, bondage, sado-masochism and prostitution outnumbered the same for marital sex nearly three to one.
This is also being reflected in advertisements for the show, as seen in the cluster below.
Katz Television Group's Vice President and Director of Programming Bill Carroll says the increasingly provocative content is a reflection of our increasingly open society.
"Things that would not have been acceptable five or 10 years ago in our society are considered just part of the ongoing culture
(forbes)
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