Racy Thoughts
November 3rd, 2008
I just read on the internets that teenagers who regularly watch “racy” TV shows are more likely to become pregnant. Which brings up the following questions:
1. Were all those Saturday nights I spent at home in front of “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island” actually a pathetic form of birth control?
2. Why didn’t I get knocked up the year I watched that slut Joan Van Ark sleep her way through the cul-de-sac on “Knot’s Landing”?
3. Is the real danger of teenage girls watching “Sex & The City” that they’ll then be influenced to sleep around? Or that they’ll start dressing like Carrie?
4. Besides Howie Mandel, who on TV nowadays isn’t at least somewhat alluring?
5. Will I soon have to limit my sons’ TV viewing to C-Span? Or is all that filibustering just a little too exciting?
6. Who the hell uses the word “racy” anymore?
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Add your own1. noreply@blogger.com (Cheryl Prater) | November 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Yes, and that means that Aaron Spelling is indirectly responsible for the birth of thousands of children, many of whom were conceived as a result of 90210, TJ Hooker and Bay Watch.
2. noreply@blogger.com (Mehitabels) | November 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
rowl – racy, lawl.
I read that same article – wtf?
so I guess all those romance novels I read as a pre-teen led to my exciting and bodice ripped twenties . . . oh wait
3. noreply@blogger.com (jamey r) | November 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I read it also… I mentioned it to my husband. His response, “Is that why you were such a slut as a teenager? Maybe that’s why you had kids so young?” sigh. My daughter will never watch television again.
4. noreply@blogger.com (coffeypot) | November 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Well… I’m 64 years old and some of the TV showes get me hot as hell. I love racy. Kids just need to be locked up until the get a job and move out.
5. noreply@blogger.com (MadMad) | November 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
So does this mean smoking behind the gym is OK now?
6. noreply@blogger.com (Lissa Jane) | November 4th, 2008 at 3:35 am
in answer to your questions..
1. Love Boat not racy??? how could a show that had Charo on it going 'hoochie coochie hoochie coochie' not be considered racy???
2. hmm never seen Knots Landing (I must of been a babe in arms then or it just wasn't on here) maybe you were busy watching late night racy TV to be leaving the house to get yourself knocked up???
3. I figure if they watch Sex & the City, they will learn your friends can remove your contraceptive devices if you are too stupid to do so yourself, they'll learn how to budget to spend $900 on a pair of shoes but not have enough $$'s to buy a comb to comb your hair??
4. Howie Mandel? hmm I vaguely recall him doing some game show (seen it on Oprah maybe??)alluring… thinking thinking.. only one that comes to mind is Ryan "I have blinding smile" Seacrest.. his teeth are BLINDING white.. why do peoples have fluro white fangs now, its darn scary..*donning sunglasses*
5. filibusting? hmmm cspan? not sure about that one either, but I am thinking filibusting = politics.. can learn 'LIFE skills' there.. lying, cheating and getting paid a lot of $'s for doing so..
6. um you?? and me too!!! LOL
Lissa
7. noreply@blogger.com (Cat) | November 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Clearly, this rules out The Discovery Channel. Those lions mating? HOTT!
8. noreply@blogger.com (Deb) | November 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
How about National Geographic magazine? They used to have pictures of naked tribal people in it! Nothing says sexy like boobs that are hanging more south than the equator!
How racy!!!
9. noreply@blogger.com (VE) | November 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Weird…I didn’t know you could get pregnant watching TV. I shall strap a condom over the television now…
10. noreply@blogger.com (Cassie) | November 4th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Shit. My kids are screwed. They love animal planet. Pretty soon I’ll find them out by the barn trying to do horrible things to the cattle.
11. noreply@blogger.com (Christy) | November 5th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I waited until I was well into my 20s to start sleeping around. Think it’s because I watched so much “Golden Girls”?
12. noreply@blogger.com (Mama Monkey) | November 5th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
ROFL!!! I can always count on you for a good laugh.
13. noreply@blogger.com (Marinka) | November 6th, 2008 at 4:32 am
That’s why everyone should use protection while watching TV.
14. noreply@blogger.com (*Akilah Sakai*) | November 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
That’s just why I monitor what the kiddies watch. I see so many little ones acting older than their age…
I believe they still sell chastity belts so I’ve got my daughter covered. I still have to find some sort of contraption for my son…
15. noreply@blogger.com (Gray Matter) | November 6th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I dunno, the article could be true, I was too busy sleeping around to watch tv…oh,maybe that disproves this “theory.”
Racy, what words did they pass on? Saucy. Naughty? Provocative? Slutty? Dopey? Sneezy?
16. noreply@blogger.com (rightonmom) | November 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
‘No, no, no, that’s not real sex they’re having on t.v., honey bunch! They’re just ‘acting’ as in pretending, much like those aren’t their real boobs or hair or teeth either! They’re just props, you know like on those McDonald’s commercials, those Big N tasty’s aren’t the real deal either.”
And that’s how I plan on keeping my kids informed. Brilliant huh?
…LOL
17. noreply@blogger.com (bernthis) | November 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I read that, like it’s anything new, although when I went to high school, watching the Carol Burnett show did nothing for me. The pot, on the other hand, well, now we’re talkin
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