It's hard to reconcile the knowledge that Sex in the Suburbs (Desparate Housewives, that is) plays on broadcast television but PBS won't air advertisements for the movie, Kinsey. The reason for the censorship is not questionable visual content in the commercials but rather Alfred Kinsey's research itself—as if today's society possessed all the same sexual phobias as Kinsey's contemporaries in the 1940s.
It's one severe sexual schizophrenia, isn't it? We're not afraid of fucking but we're terrified of sex. I think that the ability to morally differentiate between the sex that makes up primetime television and the sex that other people living in other places might possibly be having is a crucial value among the "moral values" set. Not seeing how homosexuality threatens families, how television content threatens children, or why parents can't just keep their kids away from televisions and gay couples, I suppose that I am down with smut in all its varieties.
UPDATE: The NYT concurs.
Posted by Kriston at November 21, 2004 4:35 PMi agree that not showing ads for kinsey is ridiculous, but the comparison to desperate housewives isn't really that apt. i've seen the show several times, and it's about the tamest thing out there. i know there was that monday night football ad, but the content of the show is really not any worse than any other primetime show, yet everyone keeps talking about it like it's the end of civilization.
Posted by: catherine at November 22, 2004 8:20 AMHa ha, okay, fair enough. I haven't seen the show. That's just my elitist leftwing ignorance showing through.
Posted by: Kriston at November 22, 2004 9:04 AMnot that i mean to actually defend the show. i think it's pretty terrible.
Posted by: catherine at November 22, 2004 9:12 AMActually I think I saw Tommy somewhere saying that the show was harmless and someone else saying that they saw some freaky stuff in one episode. Are you guys employed by DH or what?
Posted by: Kriston at November 22, 2004 9:17 AMwell i don't watch the show regularly, but the freakiest thing i saw was a woman in a bra and panties trying to get her husband to have sex with her. and if sex between a straight suburban couple isn't good enough for the values police, then goddammit, i don't know what's wrong with this world.
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