Tv Shows With Sexual Content?

[havok579257]

So I have been wondering lately about this. It seems almost every tv show and movie not on EWTN has some form for sexuality or immorality in it. Now all of the shows have things in it that are sinful if we ourselves do them. so then does that mean that watching these shows is sinful?

[cruciatacara]

Perhaps you just need to be more selective? I watch TV, but nothing I watch is immoral or secular. There is a lot to choose from, if you want to be discriminating. I don't get EWTN but I can still find movies and series that aren't full of sex. I watch documentaries and history channels and good movies and series like 7th Heaven and Touched by an Angel (old shows I know) and cooking shows and some talent shows or quiz shows or talk shows or car shows or antique shows or travel shows or... well, there's just a lot of really good programs if you pick and choose carefully. And things with PG rating are pretty safe (except for many animated shows - those are full of violence). And the other thing is not to make TV the focus on life... I never watch daytime TV, and only evening TV for a few hours. I read a lot instead if I'm relaxing or do handy work around the place if I feel like being active. I don't think blaming all TV is the way to go any more than blaming the Internet for all abuses either. It's all about choices.

[MIKolbe]

I kinda echo what you are saying...I guess it would depend on why you are watching it. At my house, we watch alot of Nick Jr., Discovery channel, History channel, Pawn Stars, and House. My wife really likes Modern Family and Glee. I don't watch it, nor do I allow my 9 year old to watch it. I am not sure if watching these shows are in and of themselves sinful (though I suppose they could be depending on the person watching and the reason why they are watching). But I can most certainly see a near occasion of sin, and/or the 'tinder for sin', and (at the very least) scandal.

[Papist]

I believe it is sinful if you are watching a program because of the sex and nudity, no matter what the program is.

[ClareOfAssisi]

I avoid watching movies with sexual content by checking them out on sites like http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ or IMDB before I decide to watch them. I rarely watch TV shows and if I do it will be something on Animal Planet or the History Channel.

There are movies out there without sex and nudity although I find them to be few and far between. The most recent one I've seen is Source Code.

[havok579257]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1309953219' post='2263562']
I kinda echo what you are saying...I guess it would depend on why you are watching it. At my house, we watch alot of Nick Jr., Discovery channel, History channel, Pawn Stars, and House. My wife really likes Modern Family and Glee. I don't watch it, nor do I allow my 9 year old to watch it. I am not sure if watching these shows are in and of themselves sinful (though I suppose they could be depending on the person watching and the reason why they are watching). But I can most certainly see a near occasion of sin, and/or the 'tinder for sin', and (at the very least) scandal.
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shows like house are what i am talking about. not shows with blatent sexuality or nudity in it. shows that have sexuality in them that show sexuality and then imply things. like showing 2 people making out and then the next scene is them in bed together.

[MIKolbe]

Well, I watch House for his stunningly perfect sarcasm...LOL....But yes, I guess I see what you mean. I suppose I just never thought of it that way...but yes, there is 13 and her issues, and Cuddy and House, and Chase and his ways, and Taub and his ways. I guess I always saw that as ancillary to the character; as I see House as a "mystery-can-they-cure-him" show.

But then the character of House is atheistic and hedonistic..so I suppose there are issues there too. Good points, havok....

[Era Might]

[quote name='havok579257' timestamp='1309948649' post='2263553']
So I have been wondering lately about this. It seems almost every tv show and movie not on EWTN has some form for sexuality or immorality in it. Now all of the shows have things in it that are sinful if we ourselves do them. so then does that mean that watching these shows is sinful?
[/quote]
Geoffrey Chaucer has a retraction at the end of "The Canterbury Tales" asking forgiveness for anything that might be scandalous in his work:

[quote]Now pray I to them all that listen to this little treatise or read it, that if there be any thing in it that pleases them, that thereof they thank our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom proceeds all wit and all goodness. And if there be any thing that displeases them, I pray them also that they blame it on the fault of my lack of wit and not to my will, that would much prefer to have said better if I had had cunning. For our book says, "All that is written is written for our doctrine," and that is my intent. Wherefore I beseech you meekly, for the mercy of God, that you pray for me that Christ have mercy on me and forgive me my sins; and namely of my translations and compositions of worldly vanities, the as is the book of Troilus; the book also of Fame; the book of the XXV. Ladies; the book of the Duchesse; the book of Saint Valentines day of the Parliament of Birds; the tales of Canterbury, those that tend toward sin; the book of the Lion; and many another book, if they were in my remembrance, and many a song and many a lecherous lyric, that Christ for his great mercy forgive me the sin. But of the translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, and other books of legends of saints, and homilies, and morality, and devotion, that thank I our Lord Jesus Christ and his blissful Mother, and all the saints of heaven, beseeching them that they from henceforth unto my life's end send me grace to bewail my sins and to study to the salvation of my soul, and grant me grace of true penitence, confession and satisfaction to do in this present life, through the benign grace of him that is king of kings and priest over all priests, that bought us with the precious blood of his heart, so that I may be one of them at the day of doom that shall be saved. [i]Qui cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat Deus per omnia secula.[/i] [He who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit, God, world without end.] Amen.

Here is ended the book of the tales of Canterbury, compiled by
Geffrey Chaucer, of whose soul Jesus Christ have mercy. Amen.[/quote]
And Chaucer lived in the Catholic middle ages!

It's not just TV that has sexuality and immorality in it, and it's not just modern stuff. Even the Bible relates stories of sexuality and immorality (Noah getting drunk and laying naked in his tent, David's adultery, etc).

But modern TV and movies (and literature) are definitely more explicit about it. I think of shows on HBO...some of them are really great works of art, but often have explicit and unnecessary sexual scenes.

Edited July 6, 2011 by Era Might

[the_rev]

Clean old tv shows: The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, and anything on TV Land...

I do watch modern shows, like Criminal Minds (that isn't to bad with immorality), NCIS, House, etc.

Sometimes I have moral reservations about the content but over all I watch it for the storyline.

[kujo]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1309956153' post='2263573']
Geoffrey Chaucer has a retraction at the end of "The Canterbury Tales" asking forgiveness for anything that might be scandalous in his work:
[/quote]

Funny, I always read that "retraction" as more tongue-in-cheek type humor.

[Era Might]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1309959393' post='2263585']
Funny, I always read that "retraction" as more tongue-in-cheek type humor.
[/quote]
It's debated whether it was meant seriously or not, but considering that he was a Catholic in the middle ages, I'm inclined to believe it was meant seriously. Some of his stories ARE bawdy (there's no debate about that lol).

Edited July 6, 2011 by Era Might

[kujo]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1309959892' post='2263589']
It's debated whether it was meant seriously or not, but considering that he was a Catholic in the middle ages, I'm inclined to believe it was meant seriously. Some of his stories ARE bawdy (there's no debate about that lol).
[/quote]

True.

Of course, you could argue that he was a Catholic in the same way that Ted Kennedy was a Catholic....

[Wikitiki]

I could ... recommend some cartoons?

[kujo]

[quote name='Wikitiki' timestamp='1309960859' post='2263595']
I could ... recommend some cartoons?
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Me too

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[Luigi]

I gave up watching TV a long time ago. It wasn't so much a conscious decision as it was lack of interest in what television depicts. When I catch glimpses of television these days, I can hardly believe what they show - even in the commercials!