![]() Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty, Courtesy of HBO, ABCĭepicting the act of “rimming” on TV actually isn’t that new. That is, everything but what is known as, God help me, “eating ass.” Or, to give a hint at how seriously this has been taken over the years: what Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City jokingly referred to as “tuchus lingus.” This is to say that seemingly every taboo about sex seems to have been mined: a cycle of provocation, pearl-clutching, and then normalization. ![]() Lucille Ball’s fight to show her character pregnant on I Love Lucy was so hard-fought (pregnancy hints that intercourse happened!) that we got an entire, cringe-inducing Aaron Sorkin movie out of it.įast-forward decades, and I’ve seen culture wars waged surrounding bare bums being show on NYPD Blue, Donna Martin losing her virginity on Beverly Hills: 90210, the commodification of teen sexuality on Gossip Girl, the crass “sexposition” on Game of Thrones, just about every sex scene on Girls, how graphic or realistic to be about gay sex on TV, whether it’s appropriate to show an erect penis or an ejaculation, and the need for intimacy coordinators. Classic TV series used to not even show a married couple’s bedroom. So here I am, on the occasion of The Daily Beast’s month-long celebration of “ Sextember” (get it?), writing a piece about what I mortifyingly pitched as “ass-eating on TV.” Mom has never been prouder.ĭiscourse surrounding sex and television has been around…forever. When a parent learns that their child is going to become a journalist, it is their greatest dream, one can imagine, for that child to one day write an entire story about people licking butts.
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