Spike TV
Website Offers “PG Porn”
In the Internet-connected
world of today, parents should be aware that every TV
channel has a website, and that many of these websites
contain material of potential concern. Spike.com is the
website for the Spike TV basic cable network, which claims
it is the "premiere destination for men;" but both the TV
channel and the Spike website are available to children 24
hours a day. And while Spike shows programming obsessed with
violence and degrading to women, the website goes even
further, by offering visitors video clips of what it calls
"PG Porn." Parents need to be aware of this problematic
website, which contains content that is not appropriate for
children.
Billed as being “for people who
love everything about porn except the sex,” Spike’s “PG Porn”
clips feature allegedly humorous vignettes laden with sexual
innuendo and plots based on those of pornographic movies. The
episode “Nailing Your Wife” shows a woman seducing a
construction worker – only to have him accidentally shoot her in
the head with a nail gun. As blood is shown gushing from the
woman’s head, the worker places the nail gun in her hand and
sneaks away. The other “PG Porn” skits are all variations on the
same insipid theme of porn-movie setups which somehow go wrong.
Bearing titles like “Roadside Ass-istance,” “Genital Hospital,”
and “High Poon,” all the skits feature a hefty dose of sexual
innuendo, with women moaning, caressing men’s crotches and
displaying cleavage, and also include frequent profanity.
But “PG Porn” isn’t the only
thinly-veiled pornography on Spike’s Internet portal. The
website’s “Search for the Ultimate Spike Girl” allows web
viewers to browse photos of women like pole dancer “Jacqueline
Aurora,” porn star “Kayden Kross,” and a wide assortment of mud
wrestlers, Playboy playmates, and female football
fanatics…all of them in lingerie or partially nude.
Visitors to Spike’s website can
also watch the cartoon Battle Pope, about a maniacal,
machine gun-toting thug in papal garb. In the cartoon, the
protagonist is specifically ordained by God to fight a demonic
invasion. “I was transformed, and He sent His Son along to help.
I was a drunk. A womanizer. And I still am. But now I’m the
Battle Pope,” proclaims the cartoon’s “hero.” Accompanied by a
whining, ineffectual Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns and
a Hawaiian shirt, Battle Pope engages in various graphically
bloody and sexually-spiced exploits.
Other typical stories on the
Spike website include “BMX Rider Nuts Himself: A member of the
crew suffers a devastating testicle incident on the BMX course;”
an article on “Why Women Have Sex” (which reveals that 84% of
women engage in sex not because of love, romance or passion, but
“to bargain for household chores;”) and, of course, a “bikini
poll” in which viewers can vote for the best-endowed women. The
comments left by such voters are best unmentioned here – but can
be seen by any child visiting the site.
Unsurprisingly, Spike is owned
by Viacom – the same conglomerate that produces endless
debauched
“reality” shows on VH1,
sex-soaked programming aimed at teens
on MTV, the notorious Roast
of Joan Rivers
on Comedy Central, and which is
now pushing the violent and sexualized
Glenn Martin DDS at child
viewers on Nickelodeon. And not content with forcing every
American with a cable or satellite subscription to pay for such
programming, Viacom is now flooding the Internet with such
content as well.
