'Normal sex' is not having sex in a box in front of a studio audience [View all]

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Tuesday 24 September 2013 11.26 EDT
Bridget Christie
The Guardian

In the past year, MPs, peers and staff in the Houses of Parliament tried to view sex 309,316 times. But they don't have sex in the Houses of Parliament. Not any more. Even I know that. They should've looked online instead. There's loads of sex on the internet. Or they could've just popped out to the newsagents and got some there. Or looked at some advertising. But the internet is best. In fact there is so much sex on the internet and on our high streets that Diane Abbott MP is worried about how all this fake sex is affecting our children and our own sex lives. If Abbott knew the impact the smouldering, highly charged sexual chemistry she shared with Michael Portillo on This Week had on my own sex life and the sex lives of millions of ordinary, innocent people (not to mention its effect on Andrew Neil's hair), she might not be so outspoken on the subject.

Luckily, Channel 4 have also noticed how much sex there is everywhere and so, to counteract this "explosion of online pornography", they've commissioned a new show. That's got sex in it. How to boost your ratings while pretending to help society? Fight sex with sex! It's almost genius.

Anyway, in the show, called Sex Box, which sounds like an X-rated games console fronted by Tom Jones, three couples will have sex, in a box, in front of a studio audience, and then talk to Mariella Frostrup about it immediately afterwards. There won't be time for a cup of tea or a wash or to cry or lie about anything.

Channel 4's head of factual programming, Ralph Lee, said there was "nothing salacious" about the show and that "strangely it's quite a chaste programme – there's no sex in it". Eh? No sex?! I thought they were doing it in the box? ...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/normal-sex-box-channel-4

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	Sex in a box in front of an audience? What's not to like?
	0 (0%)
	Wait! The audience doesn't get to watch? What sick fugg came up with this?
	4 (67%)
	TV in the UK sounds better than the brain-dead attention-whoring crap I watch eight hours a day
	1 (17%)
	I really feel sorry for anybody who's not willing to do it in front of a camera
	0 (0%)
	If it's not about sex with blood-sucking tentacled aliens, why bother?
	0 (0%)
	Chaste programming seems to be more fun nowadays than I remember it being
	0 (0%)
	Just another way to make the masses forget how their capitalist overlords are screwing them
	0 (0%)
	If you have to talk about your sex life to a studio audience, mebbe you've missed the point
	1 (17%)
	Why watch TV when the internet exists?
	0 (0%)
	other
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