by Diana Black
What has sex got to do with Television – everything and nothing, and I’m seriously not trying to be ‘clever’. No smut intended – but think about it – it’s all about the promise, tease, tension, reveal, fear, pay-off, raw intimacy, honesty or deception etc. etc.
Or is it? Is all this sex really about…sex? Let’s explore ‘the elephant’ in the bedroom. Isn’t TV sex, in essence, actually an efficient – and entertaining – way of presenting something deeper, as in power and manipulation?
Going further, we could contemplate whether that manipulation of power is: balanced or totally one-sided, violent – psychologically and/or physically, or heart-felt tender? Does this all sound familiar? And in no way am I referring to anyone’s ‘status’ regarding virginity.