Fake orgasm radio clip sparks BBC row, article.
"The BBC was criticised today after a radio presenter played a clip of Meg Ryan faking an orgasm during a show broadcast during the time of the school run.
Steve Harris, presenter of the Drivetime show on Radio Solent, played the 10-second recording from the movie When Harry Met Sally when talking about a drug being heralded as the female version of Viagra."
What fascinates me about these things happening all the time is that the main argument from the offended people is: "how do we explain it to the children?"
Are people really that terrified of tricky questions from their children?
my children used to say "why would you want to paint a naked woman, they are boring", my sisters kids who where brought up as christians and taught that naked women were the one thing that you werent allowed to look at wanted to know why so they always would be looking
ReplyDeleteI remember that scene from the movie, and Meg was sitting at a table in a restaurant at the time.
ReplyDeleteAfter the sound-effects subsided, a
woman at a nearby table looked at her waiter and said, "I want what she's having!"
And there are probably a lot more fake orgasms in the world than real ones, I betcha...
This whole "protect the children" excuse is a lot more about protecting the parents from embarrassment than anything else.
ReplyDeleteI'm not talking about abusive situations which are often more about protecting the children from the parents. I expect that what children need protecting from most is the hang ups of their parents.
what parents may be fearing most may not be just the natural curiosity about all the faked orgasms, but all those uglier questions that curiosity opens the bedroom door to, from what the faked orgasms are buying each party, to exactly how much of the rest of parents' everyday life is just as faked
ReplyDeleteRay, "I want what she's having!"
ReplyDeleteI remember that scene and it was just GREAT.
Thanks for the memory.
It could always be that at least some people objected to it because it was in very, very poor taste. Some might also have objected to it because it was from a cheesy scene from a cheeseball movie that launched one of the lamest (and now dead, thankfully) movie careers of all time.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteGee, if you didn't like the movie, just say so...