Sex On TV
During the most watched program in the world, one can find commercials of any nature. On January 31, 1999, the world witnessed a first. Millions of people stopped whatever they were doing, to focus on their television sets for a 30-second commercial that cost $1.6 million to put on the air. This commercial would have brought no attention if it where a shoe or car commercial, but what made this commercial special was the product it was advertising. Beautiful models strutting down runways in lingerie. Victoria’s Secret advertising their live lingerie show via web telecast, caused 1 million people to go online within 15 minutes of the commercial to check out the web site (Ryan, D1). That is the power of sex. When a commercial during the most watched sporting event in the world causes people to stop watching that sports program, in order to go online, and get more information about going online and watching a fifteen minute fashion show, then we have problems. A similar commercial, for Doritos, involves a beautiful woman walking through a library eating new Doritos, and a library full of men gawking at her. Then the sprinkler’s go off, and the men start bowing to the woman. This commercial uses a beautiful woman, to sel
Every single day, there are literally thousands of sexual acts on television. Whether on daytime soap operas or on evening “quality” programming, producers have realized the simple fact that sex sells. If a program is littered with sexual innuendoes, then more people will watch it. If a show has five minutes of a beautiful woman wearing lingerie, but that has little or no impact on the plot, it gets higher ratings. And as ratings for such shows increases, so does the number of shows that employ similar tactics. NBC Entertainment President Scott Sassa said in a recent interview that NBC has "shifted too far away from traditional families" and has sometimes used sex "to get an easy laugh.” (Aucoin, D1) Sassa promised more quality programming on NBC, but so far, nothing has appeared. Sassa was also quoted as saying "We could use a few more words between `Hello' and `Would you sleep with me?' " (Aucoin, D1) It sounds complicated, but it’s not. The idea of sex is brought up very often, as the other characters in the show attempt to woo each other. It also helps when the star of the show dresses in very sexy outfits, and runs around slaying vampires. I personally like the show because of the characters and the humor – but the sex is very apparent.
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