The UK Babe Channels Forum

Ahh, so that part was free. Thanks Skateguy.

steve6660 Wrote:I can turn on movies 24 any night and see this stuff:



but the babe channels can't show it?

Shame on you watching movies 24 when the footie was on

Nice screencaps. The reason you can't see strong stuff, even at 3am, is because OfCom decided in advance that it wanted to ban it. They relied on a survey of just 173 people - about enough for a PanTen advert. I'm not saying the research was biassed, but it was conducted in areas guaranteed to have above average numbers of people with strong religious beliefs and above average numbers of women.

Clips from the more basic channels were shown, Babecast and XXX 4U, instead of say Playboy Nightcalls. The absence of mood lighting and use of crude direct language would be pretty well guaranteed to alienate many women.

Despite this the result was still not clear cut.

Research focussed "sub-sectors considered core" eg Afro-Carribean males and British Asian females.

The researchers themselved admitted "there was a high proportion of British Asian women in the session, which would have boosted the ‘offensiveness’ rating among women".

A 2004 Babecast clip caused "high levels of offence" with half the panel rating it 8 9 or 10 for offensiveless - which means half rated it lower. "A third said that this type of content should never be shown on BBC or ITV and a fifth said it should never be on either Channel 4 or Five"

~ incredible, they were talking about Babecast being shown on the BBC ! And even then 2/3 did NOT say never.

A XXX 4U promo was also shown, and most of the survey group were LESS concerned than with some of the other clips because they were unlikely to come across something not on a mainstream channel. Let's say that again - the survey group were more concerned about Big Brother (Jam on breasts), "Sex Footballers and Videotapes" (C4 again) than XXX 4U.

The main conclusion about adult channels was that they should not be available until later in the evening. Not banned.

Despite this OfCom uses this research to justify banning sex orientated material in registered sex channels late at night.

It also moves the goal posts year after year based on the same, unchanged, research.

When that doesn't work it hides behind advertising regulations. As managed by OfCom.

Don't know what clips OfCom used, but here are some random samples from 2006, which may be stronger, the same or weaker:
Babestar Clip Sept 2006
XXX4U Nov 2006

steve6660 Wrote:I can turn on movies 24 any night and see this stuff:

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but the babe channels can't show it?

I don't know why they can show it, as Playboy One and some other channels such as Bravo were prevented from showing this kind of material

It just comes down to ofcom not liking these channels because they are prudes

I long for the day when we are actually treated like adults and can judge for ourselves whether we want to watch something or not.

steve6660 Wrote:I can turn on movies 24 any night and see this stuff:



but the babe channels can't show it?

I don't watch movies 24 on principle, mainly because they show absolute shite, but I must admit, even those screengrabs are a bit more then I would have expected from the channel. I guess I'll have to keep a closer eye on it.

even The BBFC treated us like adults and released Caligula uncut, I don't know what the fuck Ofcoms problem is

Vamp Wrote:even The BBFC treated us like adults and released Caligula uncut, I don't know what the fuck Ofcoms problem is

The BBFC were taken to court and lost. That's the difference.

its good to have something to leave to the imagination. it makes it that little bit more fun.