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Saw a trailer for this last night.

You can tell it's going to be a typical British attitude to porn, showing the bad side and ignoring the good.

From talking to people in general it seems porns got a worse name than ever, crazy in this liberated day & age.

We could all get together & do a.....
'The Bright Side Of Porn'
But you just know the editors would rip it to bits to twist it back to negative !whistle!

I for one ignore any emails asking for Telly research, no wonder !tut!

Hey Ho let's hope I'm wrong but I'm sure it's going to start a mass-debate !laugh!

I suppose this will be the same censored (piexllated) crap that C4 always shows?

Ofcom’s broadcast code was supposed to reduce censorship of post-watershed programming, yet C4 still choose to censor any/all instances of explicit footage of actual sexual activity in documentaries & films, even though there is not regulatory reason for doing so: According to Ofcom’s guidelines, 18 certificate material can be shown on any channel after 21.00, and there have been a number of films and documentaries in recent years that contain uncensored explicit footage e.g. 9 Songs, Inside Deep throat etc that received such a certificate, so why do C4 wimp out in this pathetic fashion?
Five are much less censorial (through not perfect) IMO, I wish C4 would leave such ‘adult’ material to them, so there is at least a chance that adult viewers won’t be ‘nannyed’ in C4 fashion.

Sad to see what used to be such an interesting and provocative channel become so mainstream and pro-censorship

SimonD wrote:
"Saw a trailer for this last night.

You can tell it's going to be a typical British attitude to porn, showing the bad side and ignoring the good.

From talking to people in general it seems porns got a worse name than ever, crazy in this liberated day & age.

We could all get together & do a.....
'The Bright Side Of Porn'
But you just know the editors would rip it to bits to twist it back to negative !whistle!"

I agree with you there Simon.
I'm sure all (or most) of the producers who visit this forum would get together to make such a documentary but would C4 (or any other mainstream broadcaster) take it? Even more, would they take it under a contractual condition that they broadcast it "as supplied" without being able to edit in any way whatsoever?
Somehow I don't think so. Might be interesting to challenge them to do that though and see what their response would be.

Myson

The upside of porn is it makes mucky little buggers like me happy!!

I don't know what happened to CH4. They used to be the best. Now it's BBC2 by miles.
Too many shit programmes like 'you are what you eat'.

It could be a repeat of last years series as I was told that this was due to be aired last Xmas but it didn't happen....

I just love the way we always get these 'negative' documentaries from Channel 4 - not quite the same when it's from C5, after all, they lack the 'credibility' than C4 has.

Ironically though, where C5 doesn't really try to disguise the prurient reasons behind it's programming (Sex and Shopping!), Channel 4 hides behind a facade of so-called serious, investigative journalism, whilst still providing the same kind of titillating 'behind-the scenes' insights.

In my mind this is shameless hypocrisy on the behalf of C4 - they look down, from very lofty heights, on the 'sordid, demeaning world of pornography', never really bothering to talk in-depth, with any of the luminaries of the British porn industry - be it on-screen talent, or directors (like Ben Dover).

Good journalism is about providing a balanced viewpoint to any given subject, Channel 4 on the other hand seem to have indulged (yet again) in the type of tabloid-type 'expose' of Brit porn we've all become so used to, they can pass it off as insightful, thought-provoking programming, whilst we ALL know the real reasons: light-weight masturbatory fodder for those lack the knowledge/ability to obtain REAL pornography.

Last word, will Channel 4 cut '9 Songs' when they eventually show it?

I seriously doubt it.

Peace.

PG.

Channel 4 will do what they always do and try and show the porn industry as being sleasy when those of us who have been involved in the industry know this isnt the case, but of course if they showed porn in its more positive light then it wouldnt push up their ratings, the moral is never believe anything you see on tv or read in the papers.