It's just a thought, folks, but here's some brain candy for you -- for those who get SexTV, the sex education and soft-porn channel on satellite and extended cable, has anyone noticed they're now showing the "blue" stuff as early as 9:30 pm Eastern -- which is 6:30 pm Pacific? It used to start about 2½ hours later when it was owned by Moses Znaimer but now that it's owned by CTV ... I checked and it appears the watershed of 9:00 pm applies to all time zones, not just Eastern, and it also applies to cable as well as broadcast television. (Premium services are, of course, exempt.)
Look, not that I have anything against that kind of broadcast material, actually, even if the scenes cooked up are half-baked. But kids are a lot smarter than we think and they know how to get around passwords. In this case, it's often not even necessary to have a password. Maybe teens could have use for the material, but little kids? It's more than just a little worrying, especially since the private broadcaster's "self-regulator" has allowed full frontal nudity (both male and female) during day time as long as it's "non-sexual." Whatever that means.
We need to clarify what is acceptable and what isn't. And no double standards either -- gay male sex should be as permissable as lesbian sex, male genitalia should be as "non offensive" as female. We have enough problems with gay and lesbian bookstores (like Little Sisters and Glad Day) running into trouble with customs over "obscene" books when the same books are sent without question to mainstream stores like Indigo. It's time we were clear about when we can broadcast sex as well.
I'm not saying three in the morning, but 6:30 in the evening is way too early.
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Maybe teens could have use for the material, but little kids? It's more than just a little worrying, especially since the private broadcaster's "self-regulator" has allowed full frontal nudity (both male and female) during day time as long as it's "non-sexual." Whatever that means.
1) Little kids should be in school anway during the day.
2) The ones that are too little to be in school usually have a responsible person looking after them
3) The best "regulator" is a parent at home with the "little kids" while the TV is on.
That being said, it becomes more of a judgement call on what the parents will allow little kids to watch rather than a television network that people are paying to subscribe to.
Parents should be the ultimate regulators, I totally agree ... but the airwaves do belong to the people and we should be insisting on some basic ground rules. They're so loose right now they're laughable.
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