also clear—all moral and cultural issues totally aside—that this is an extremely dangerous direction for the adult-film industry to have to keep moving.” In other words, the system is destroying itself. The constant need to up the ante is driving the porn industry into some dubious, borderline-criminal areas involving such delights as barely disguised child porn and gang rape. All while the morality police, understaffed and outnumbered, watch as the adult entertainment industry slips into an
uncensored abyss. More disturbingly, the same concept is at work in the mainstream media, although the ratcheting up has occurred at a much slower pace. All the way back in 1947, the sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny made TV history when it aired the first married couple to share a bed. Scandalous, right? Nearly 20 years later, in 1964, a British soap called Emergency Ward 10 aired the first interracial snog. Less groundbreaking—four years later, the
African American actress was quietly written out of the show. Less than a decade later, the first live-action sex scene was shot in Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, in a scene in which the main character loses his virginity to a prostitute. The bathwater started heating up as TV networks warmed to the idea that sex sold, and PBS aired the first female nipple during a production of the Bruce Jay Friedman play “Steambath” in 1973. Then the 80’s unleashed a tidal wave
A student who was under the age of 21 was reported as talking to herself while seated in the lobby of the residence hall. The uncooperative student refused to answer several questions, but did admit to having consumed three drinks containing tequila at a friend’s house. The student stated she was fine and demanded to go to her room. When the student stood up, it became obvious that the tequila was rented not purchased. The officers stated they would escort her to her room, whereupon the student proceeded to literally “stomp all the way to her room.” True
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