Shame of C4’s cheap thrills

JUST what sort of mainstream, terrestrial TV broadcaster would air a show designed to teach teenagers the Kama Sutra and claim it to be purely educational? A highly irresponsible one and few will be surprised to learn that it’s Channel 4 behind The Joy Of Teen Sex.

The programme features explicit images of naked youngsters experimenting in sex acts. A researcher for Mediawatch, who has seen the material, says: “It’s soft porn aimed at arousing the audience.” She is right. Sex education is a serious issue but is C4 interested in helping shy teenagers come to terms with sex or is it just after a cheap thrill to boost viewing figures?

The subject does not need graphic human illustration to make a serious point. By including them, the show will simply arouse those in search of a cheap thrill, the very opposite of the message that a programme like this should be making.

C4 is part-funded by taxpayers and its bosses have a duty to act responsibly. It’s time TV regulator Ofcom woke up and imposed some sense of decent morality on the purveyors of muck like this.

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