tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131137942376227025.post3639370738583056728..comments2023-11-02T05:36:32.889-07:00Comments on Mediawatch-UK: When Coronation Street pushes the boundaries of the watershed children are the victimsMediawatch-UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12215885151457312646noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131137942376227025.post-2986703473031971992012-06-19T15:18:38.441-07:002012-06-19T15:18:38.441-07:00What the heck is a "lolita bed"?What the heck is a "lolita bed"?The Happiness Patrolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460733113018247305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131137942376227025.post-28406239030548825602010-10-08T16:33:01.235-07:002010-10-08T16:33:01.235-07:00The producers and writers of soap operas seek to s...The producers and writers of soap operas seek to shock because they know they will get reactions such as this which will only serve to further the publicity of their programmes and get more people tuning in to find out what the fuss is all about.<br />There is a line between steamy scenes (the idea that any actual sex will be depicted in a pre-watershed soap opera is ridiculous as the producers know that there will be mass outrage) in soap operas a full on sexual imagery.<br />Lumping anything with a whiff of raunchyness or steamyness (such as soap operas, pop music videos etc) with actual pornography or 18 rated films featuring explicit sex scenes seems the way that groups such as yours are going but it's way off the mark.<br />Once again the implication is that children will see sex on screen and then want to go and have sex. This is a monkey see monkey do approach to the problem of under age sex which fails to understand the wider social causes to the problems we have with teen sex and teen pregnancy in this country.<br />The idea that we can stop these problems by ridding Television and the entire entertainment industries of all depictions of sex is niaeve at best.dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292178825654060787noreply@blogger.com