08-03-2010, 00:59
So, Amanda has to "disappear" for five minutes and reappear with a pair of knickers on under her "too revealing" fishnet outfit.
What I want to know is what exactly happens there. Does somebody from Offcom contact Bang Babes and say "that's too naughty", or does someone in the production team, having previously thought "we can get away with this", suddenly get cold feet?
If the latter, then isn't the problem a lack of precise enough guidelines?
The way I see it is that Amanda wasn't showing anything that a well adjusted adult can't cope with - and at half-past eleven kids aren't going to be watching, so why should there be a problem? I'm a fifty something year old, happily married man. I know what a pussy looks like, tastes like, etc, etc. Amanda wasn't naked from the waist down, legs at quarter to three - just showing enough for a pleasant turn on, which is surely what it's all about...
So come on, Offcom, be crystal clear and think of the audience - after all, if David Dimbleby's excellent documentary series, 'The Seven Ages of Britain' can show an explicitly drawn vulva between nine and ten in the name of "culture", then surely a late night sexual entertainment can contain non-explicit images of the same thing?
It's this basic absence of logic that annoys me - you can have all the swearing you like (or don't like), as long as it's sanctified by drama or comedy, you can have explicit nudity, again if sanctified by "art", and you can have no end of gratuitous, sadistic violence in the name of entertainment, but you can't allow even a hint of female genitalia for the purpose of harmless titillation, presumably because you might get a letter of complaint once in a blue moon from some Daily Mail reader who happens accidentally to press the wrong button on their remote. It's just ridiculous.
Rant over.
What I want to know is what exactly happens there. Does somebody from Offcom contact Bang Babes and say "that's too naughty", or does someone in the production team, having previously thought "we can get away with this", suddenly get cold feet?
If the latter, then isn't the problem a lack of precise enough guidelines?
The way I see it is that Amanda wasn't showing anything that a well adjusted adult can't cope with - and at half-past eleven kids aren't going to be watching, so why should there be a problem? I'm a fifty something year old, happily married man. I know what a pussy looks like, tastes like, etc, etc. Amanda wasn't naked from the waist down, legs at quarter to three - just showing enough for a pleasant turn on, which is surely what it's all about...
So come on, Offcom, be crystal clear and think of the audience - after all, if David Dimbleby's excellent documentary series, 'The Seven Ages of Britain' can show an explicitly drawn vulva between nine and ten in the name of "culture", then surely a late night sexual entertainment can contain non-explicit images of the same thing?
It's this basic absence of logic that annoys me - you can have all the swearing you like (or don't like), as long as it's sanctified by drama or comedy, you can have explicit nudity, again if sanctified by "art", and you can have no end of gratuitous, sadistic violence in the name of entertainment, but you can't allow even a hint of female genitalia for the purpose of harmless titillation, presumably because you might get a letter of complaint once in a blue moon from some Daily Mail reader who happens accidentally to press the wrong button on their remote. It's just ridiculous.
Rant over.