Sex Toys Featured On Morning Show

[matcom]

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LONDON (Reuters) - A British breakfast television show was rapped by standards watchdogs Thursday for a feature on sex toys.

GMTV argued that its piece was a serious examination of sexual problems for its housewife audience and had taken place after 9 a.m. when most children would have left for school, the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) said.

But the BSC said it "took the view that the content was unsuitably explicit and had exceeded acceptable boundaries for the time of broadcast."

It dismissed another complaint about TV illusionist Derren Brown's Russian roulette stunt on Channel 4 in October.

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[theivoryqueen]

1. I thought WE were the puritans....

[truthspeaker]

2. Britain is almost as bad as we are

Worse in some ways - a lot of the porn we take for granted here is illegal to sell in the UK. I forget the title, but I saw a book about British prudishness a few years ago. There are ancient hillside chalk drawings made by pre-Roman pagan inhabitants. Some of them feature prominent phalluses. It was standard practice for a long time to cover up the penises.

And remember the big flap about Princess Di being photographed topless? She was in France or somewhere, where topless sunbathing is the norm (as it is in much of western Europe), but when the picture hit the UK it was a scandal.

[rfranklin]

3. Exactly when did you see sex toys on the TODAY show?

Was that the time that Jane Pauley did a live demonstration?

[Don_G]

4. Did They Have The USB Powered Vibrator?

Gives new meaning to a laptop.

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