jonno has long been a fan of the animated series “family guy”. personally, while i thought it was mildly amusing, i was never all that fussed over it. but consider me a staunch support as of today, since the parent’s television council has decried it as one of the most “family unfriendly shows” on american tvs.

“Family Guy” ” contained scenes in which characters are shown having sex and topics such as masturbation, incest, bestiality, and necrophilia are routinely discussed,”

the p.t.c. says “Hollywood does not care about families.”

Ummm, hello, welcome to earth. Seriously, since when was television a public service? television exists for one reason, and one reason only: to make money. It makes money by selling you stuff. Television may be entertaining, but it owes its entire existence to the almighty advertising dollar. The medium may be different to the golden olden days of radio when they were selling ivory soap, but the message is the same. the only reason there was less sex on tv in the early days, was simply that we were a less sophisticated viewing/marketing audience.

if there’s one thing living in the uk has made abundantly clear, is that the u.s. stridently *pretend* to uphold our prudish puritanical roots, whilst simultaneously being the most sexually hypocritical society on earth. so we are laughingstocks on both counts. a) we’re not fooling anyone, and b) the fact that we seem blissfully ignorant that we’re not fooling anyone, makes it twice as amusing.

We are consistently inconsistent. We tell people, “Be sexy, but not *TOO* sexy, and don’t *HAVE* sex, even though we’ll use sex to *SELL* stuff to you, and selling sex is *BAD*, and sex is between *ADULTS*, except when young *GIRLS* look like *WOMEN*, and then it’s *OKAY* to be sexy, but not *TOO* sexy.”

we’re so blatantly hypocritical, in fact, that we manage to fuck up whole generations of children by sending all sorts of mixed messages, rather than just doing what the rest of the world does, and leaving the tits and ass til after the kiddies have gone to bed – and then indulge unashamedly in the hilarity and pleasure of the human body.

and shockingly enough, even with talk about sex and real, live nakedness on television, the kids here grow up no more depraved than in the u.s. (and some would say less so). so really, now… who’s fooling who? I’ll take “family guy” over “leave it to beaver” any day.

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