Sex education how modern TV series talk about sex

 

During the change, the high school student jumped on the table in the school buffet, shouted that he was not going to hide that he had a large dick and that he did not feel in connection with this monster, and begged him out of his pants. The camera recorded this event from behind - so that the frame entered the naked ass of the guy.








This is an ordinary episode from the most popular and discussed series of the year, the British "Sex Education". We somehow missed the moment when such episodes stopped shocking us (and impress) on the home screen. Until 20 years ago, this was quite difficult to imagine: a small screen, which is completely free to gather the whole family, traditionally was shameful, and the prerogative to show liberties, justified by "artistic necessity", was behind a great movie.




In the 1950s, the couple from the most rated American TV series "I Love Lucy" on the screen were put to sleep on separate single beds, connected by a common headboard - and this despite the fact that they were played by actors who were in a real marriage. The word "pregnant" never dared to break off Lucille Ball's lips - despite the fact that not only her heroine was in the position, but she herself.




The couple first shared a tv post only a decade later, and that's just for talking in "My Wife Fascinated Me," where the wife was a witch. The sexual revolution of the 1970s will bring on the screen passionate hugs, naked reproductive organs and the word fuck, but television will not go beyond mentioning some slippery themes, such as abortion, and shameful female nudity from the back in the spirit of museum painting, as it was even in our "Walking through the torments" (1977).




However, it will be another 15 years before the TV frame will appear naked body parts and stingily filmed sex scenes - in the twilight of police series like "NYPD" and "Los Angeles Laws", where the subject of investigations - dirty behind-the-scenes, underground business - assumed still more frankness than allowed by the family TV viewing.




Everything changed cable TV. Cable is a fee, and adults pay, and there they decide how to restrict access to the channels of their children. Thus, thanks to the weakened censorship, bold projects have appeared, thanks to which such series as "Sex Education" have become possible today.




Sex and the City (Sex and the City, 1998-2004)




Desperate Housewives (2004-2012)




"Girls" (Girls, 2012-2017)




Women were the first to discuss on television what men - about women - talked only in smoking rooms and locker rooms. Two mutually exclusive factors worked: the hard-won struggle for gender equality and the social attitudes of women first, perceived by some groups as sexist. Thus, for the first time, very detailed arguments about the technique of sex sounded from the TV screen, and Samantha's monologue about the mine and how much physiological inconvenience he causes to her, plunged the men into silent respect. First in "Sex and the City", and later in "Desperate Housewives" and "Girls" naked men began to show in a very bright light, and not in the twilight, as it happened in the police series of the 1990s. "The Sopranos" (1999-2007)




Sons of Anarchy (Sons of Anarchy, 2008-2014)




"True Detective" (True Detective, 2014)




The gloomy crime sagas of cable television depicted men crucified between traditional morality and illegal business. Living in such tension requires an outlet - so Tony Soprano took part in a strip club and became our keyhole to spy on dancing on pole women.




The hero of Charlie Hannam in the biker epic "Sons of Anarchy" had to rush to the embrasure, pleasing to the full screen of elderly individuals in exchange for their services to sell weapons. Then he gets tired of it, and he will move his business from firearms to the industry, where he himself will not have to try - only to command. The first season of "True Detective" devoted so much screen time to showcasing a naked female body and vicious sex (Marty Hart cheating on his wife with sex workers, and his wife seducing his partner Rast Cole) that the showrunner of the series Nick Pizzolato was even accused of misogyny. Hard sex and cynical-consumer demonstration of the female body, which go to strip clubs is not the best hit - that's what brought these series on the TV screen.

"Close Friends" (Britain - 1999-2000, American - 2000-2005)




After women and confused criminal elements, representatives of the LGBT community spoke about sex on television. British "Close Friends" was the first television show that detailed and humorously told about the problems of young people of non-traditional orientation, touching not only understandable issues like homophobia and come-out, but also interpersonal relationships in general. Some scenes may surprise especially impressionable to this day: for example, the monologue of a young and not yet able to play a football fan in "Hooligans" Charlie Hannam, who enthusiastically shares his first night with a man: "He looks at me, I - in his eyes. I still feel it, really, as if... It's like there's a void left behind. He's still here.' A little later , "Close Friends" adapted for the American cable channel Showtime, and the series became even more popular (and popular until now).