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Basic Cable Awash in Raunch
A Content Analysis of expanded basic cable's Original Prime-Time Series
November 2004
Executive summary
Obscene language ,
including:
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"Asshole;"
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"Tits;"
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"Dick;"
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"Pussy;"
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"Prick;"
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Bleeped and unbleeped
uses of "Cock;"
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Bleeped and unbleeped
uses of "Shit;" and
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Bleeped and unbleeped
uses of "Fuck."
Graphic sexual content,
including:
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Explicit dialogue,
including a graphic discussion of various sexual positions such as
"doggy" and "pile-driver;"
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Strippers and nudity,
including footage of women fondling each others' naked breasts, and
performing lap-dances;
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Masturbation,
including a cartoon of a fifth-grader masturbating a dog;
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Oral sex,
including a scene where police interrupt a man while he's performing
oral sex on his girlfriend;
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Threesomes
even on programs
intended for younger viewers, like MTV's popular The Real World;
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Anal sex
between two men, between a man and a woman, in animated series and in
live-action series alike;
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Kinky sex and fetishes
including a
depiction of a man penetrating a plastic sex doll's mouth, anus, and
vagina;
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Statutory rape,
repeated scenes of a teenaged boy having sex with a middle-aged woman;
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Sadism/Masochism,
including footage of a woman whipping another woman taken inside a sex
club;
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Bestiality
including a graphic
scene in an animated series in which a gerbil is placed in a man's
rectum;
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Incest
depicted between a
mother and her son; and
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Forced sodomy and rape,
including a scene in which a man was forced to fellate another man at
gun point.
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