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‘Sex sells’: The new age of explicit TV
A new wave of shows featuring nudity and sex are appearing on the small screen. Are viewers becoming less prudish? Emma Jones takes a look.
In 1995, TV audiences were mesmerised by the so-called ‘Darcy’ phenomenon – a young Colin Firth as the arrogant Mr Darcy, emerging fully-clothed but dripping wet from a lake. Viewers of the BBC’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice reached 10 million after this pivotal scene.
Twenty years later, a see-through white shirt alone might leave viewers cold. In 2016, the viewers of radiotimes.com voted Aidan Turner, playing historical hero Poldark, stripping off and taking a bath, as TV’s most memorable moment that year. Then there was The Night Manager – where a graphic sex scene showing Tom Hiddleston’s naked backside caused a worldwide social media meltdown. And its viewing figures were dwarfed by 2018’s The Bodyguard, which peaked at 11 million in the UK.
Headlines lingered on the naked body of Richard Madden in The Bodyguard’s explicit sex scenes with Keeley Hawes (Credit: BBC)
There were explosions and plot twists aplenty – but would it have become one of the most talked about series ever if it hadn’t featured explicit sex scenes acted out by the Golden Globe-winning Richard Madden and co-star Keeley Hawes? And with headlines lingering on a naked Madden, when did the male body become such an essential ingredient to TV success?
“Sex sells, it’s nothing new, nor is the idea of selling sex to primetime TV audiences,” says Alice Jones, Arts Editor at The i newspaper. “But The Night Manager and Poldark both caused such a colossal fluster, and so many headlines, that you can't blame directors and producers for wanting to recapture the hype with more male flesh. 
“The people behind this hype machine, the directors, the editors of the newspapers and so on, are more than likely largely male, responding to an idea of what they perceive women to want. And in the age of streaming, television 'moments', when something collectively captures the public imagination and – in this case – makes them swoon and tweet as one, it’s a precious weapon in the war for attention.”
Graphic sex scenes and nudity on mainstream television certainly date back to HBO’s ground-breaking Sex and the City, which aired just before the millennium; HBO followed this up with Game of Thrones, by which time shows like Rome and The Tudors weren’t stopping their scenes at the bedroom door either. But as the traditional targets of media objectification, actresses could demand ‘no nudity’ contracts as soon as they wielded sufficient power – from Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City to Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones (though she did decide, later, to appear naked once more.) For some actresses though, certain scenes could be traumatic.
HBO set the trend for nudity and explicit sex scenes, with shows like Sex and the City and Game of Thrones (Credit: HBO)
“In Season 3 [of Lost], I’d had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt had no choice in the matter,” actress Evangeline Lilly told the Lost Boys podcast in 2018. “I was crying my eyes out.”
Post #MeToo, is focusing on the male body easier for TV directors?
“Where once it was down to women to float around flashing their flesh in spy dramas and so on, there's a sense in 2019, that that is not ok, that it might be at best anti-feminist and at worst exploitative,” Alice Jones explains. “The industry is, rightly, even more on its guard about how it treats female performers on and off screen. But they know they still need some sex in there to hook an audience. By making men strip off, shows can deliver the frisson of flesh and still look ‘woke’.”
But the male actor as a sex object isn’t something to be treated with levity either, argues TV psychologist Honey Langcaster-James.
“This is what women have been subjected to for a long time of course, but simply turning the tables and objectifying men wouldn’t be the best solution to this. I do wonder what effect this trend might have on the male psyche. There is already a great deal of pressure on men, especially younger men, to achieve the ‘body beautiful’. I do feel concerned about the impact on male self-esteem and self-image if they start to absorb some of this messaging.”
Tom Hiddleston’s bare bottom was edited out of the US version of The Night Manager (Credit: BBC)
Bodyguard actor Richard Madden (who also played Robb Stark in Game of Thrones) seems unscathed by any objectification so far, recently describing the look of sex scenes in Game of Thrones as “seventies porno” in an interview with GQ. Tom Hiddleston, on discovering his bottom had been edited out of the US TV version of The Night Manager, quipped that “there are many, many more dangerous things that people are happy to broadcast”. It did their careers no harm at all – both actors were propelled by the press to the high honour of ‘the next James Bond’.
The release of Netflix’s medieval epic Outlaw King created a stir, not because actress Florence Pugh displayed partial nakedness in an explicit sex scene with actor Chris Pine during the film, but because there was half a second of Chris Pine’s penis in one scene. The resulting Twitterstorm led Pine and director David Mackenzie to comment to an audience in Toronto that “there was more talking about full frontal nudity in Outlaw King than the disembowelling and beheading”.
Netflix’s Outlaw King caused a stir due to the half a second when Chris Pine’s penis was visible (Credit: Netflix)
Were the headlines any less exploitative because they were about a man?
“Probably not,” agrees Alice Jones. “The hysteria around his genitalia didn’t make anyone look good. It tipped over into creepy, with otherwise respectable publications writing articles headlined 'How to See Chris Pine's Penis in Outlaw King’.”
Outlaw King was a hybrid in the sense it was a film made for a home streaming service. Generally, cinema is far behind TV when it comes to sex. 
“Studios are focused on more established franchises and fewer risks are being taken in order to maximise box office profit,” explains popular culture journalist Natalie Jamieson.
“It’s made sense to have your film rated to appeal to the widest possible audience – but that rules out anything too extreme or explicit.
“There are more TV programmes released each week than anyone can realistically watch and so naturally you need to get people talking about your show over others. Having something particularly shocking or sexual that will fuel itself on social media and create a moment has worked incredibly well for things like Cersei’s walk of shame on Game of Thrones.
A co-production between the BBC and Netflix, Wanderlust starred Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh as a married couple questioning monogamy (Credit: BBC)
“You’re also probably watching post-watershed TV in your house so something extreme is tempered by how comfortable you feel. It’s less comfortable perhaps to watch something intensely graphic or sexually extreme in a crowded cinema with strangers.”
Television is currently moving further into sexual exploration. There’s the BBC/Netflix’s Wanderlust, starring Toni Collette, which asks whether lifelong monogamy is possible, and the Channel 4 (UK) series Pure, about a woman with OCD, that revolves around her constant sexual thoughts.
Audiences need to be de-mystified about sex, according to Asa Butterfield, the 21-year-old star of Netflix’s Sex Education. Butterfield stars as Otis, a teenager whose mother, played by Gillian Anderson, is a sex therapist. Surrounded by manuals about sex, Otis sets up an underground clinic to deal with his classmates’ problems, and realises he has a few himself.
In Sex Education, Otis (Asa Butterfield) plays a teen whose mother (Gillian Anderson) is a sex therapist (Credit: Netflix)
Despite the graphic content that its name would suggest, and even full frontal male nudity, the young actor recently told Teen Vogue that he believes it’s educating audiences about everyday sex, rather than just providing fantasy.
“It shows it in all its ugliness and awkwardness, and its funniness and it shows these characters who are going through their own things and are confused and don’t really know what their bodies are doing. It doesn’t try and make it sexy, or try and make it cool. It just really shows it for what it is. And sometimes it is sexy, most of the time it’s not.”
Comedies aside, fumbling or awkward sex scenes are probably not going to make it to primetime television slots anytime soon, as networks concentrate on providing escapism for viewers. But are they providing a true reflection of 21st-Century Western society – or just now providing, as Alice Jones put it, “equal opportunities stripping” for both male and female actors?
TV psychologist Honey Langcaster-James can be found on Twitter here.
Natalie Jamieson is on Twitter here.
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It would come as no surprise to know that the theme of sex is very prevalent in the advertising and marketing world. Both men and women are sexualised in order to promote and sell products. The worst thing? We are so accustomed to it, we no longer bat an eyelid. A semi naked Paris Hilton promoting burgers? Sure, alright. Topless (and headless — apparently their face isn’t that important) men on the campaigns for Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch? Over it. But when does the line between using sex as a marketing technique start to cross into the territory of being objectifying and just plain offensive? And to be honest, is it as necessary as the industry would have us believe?
Throughout history the idea of ‘sex sells’ has been prominent in advertising dating as far back as the 1950’s. Whereas then the focus was on presenting women’s sole purpose to please men as a domestic goddess, mother and wife, now it is more about sexualising women to sell products. However, what they have in common is that women are still being objectified. So, have we progressed? We’ve gone from this…
Although the context is of course different, these two adverts share the similarity of objectifying a woman’s body to please others, more specifically men. This introduces the question; are these sexed up ads contributing the negative body image of women? It would appear yes! Promoting a standard of the ‘ideal’ or ‘perfect’ body puts pressure on women to conform, when the message that should really be being promoted is that everyone has different bodies and they are all acceptable the way they are. Not to mention that it is not necessary to change our body to please others as the only person who you should be aiming to please is yourself.
Is the oversexualisation of some adverts necessary? How many times have you come across an advert where the main focus is a semi naked attractive person, promoting a mundane household item which has nothing to do with sex appeal? For example, it seems bizarre that a naked silhouette of a woman would aid in any way in selling a laptop. Especially since in the advert the main focus of the image is the naked woman, and the actual product being promoted is a miniscule image in the corner. It makes little to no sense, and is unnecessary. It also puts into question who the demographic for a certain product is. In this case, it would be assumed that the demographic for this product would be straight males, however realistically a laptop can be used by anyone, even children. So not only is the nature of this advert unnecessary, it could also be argued that it is simply inappropriate.
In recent years, social media has flourished into an Instagram model product placement haven. Celebrities and social media influencers alike are paid thousands to push products to their vast audiences, and it’s no surprise that many of these people use sexualised images in order to do this.
As humans, we can’t help but find imagery of a sexual nature intriguing. Advertisers know this very well and take advantage of this to push products our way. Even if the product has absolutely nothing to do with the images in the advert, like the Carls Jr advert with Paris Hilton (above). Burgers and semi naked C list celebrities have absolutely no correlation, but it was made like that for a reason — sex sells. In the case of social media, advertisers pay very high-profile celebrities to endorse gimmicky useless products like diet pills and waist trainers. If the celebrity poses in a sexual way showing off their bodies, supposedly achieved by the use of said product, then even better! Our eyes are more drawn to sexual or suggestive images and audiences are more likely to buy the product than if they were being shown in a dull or mundane way. Especially if the celebrity’s bodies are attractive and desirable as impressionable women will want to buy the product. The proof is in the pudding after all!
Ultimately, sex is everywhere. On adverts, billboards, magazines and social media galore. It definitely shows no signs of going anywhere even though it usually is unnecessary and inappropriate. After all, if your product is really as good as you claim, you won’t need a semi naked woman plastered all over your ad to make it sell. That’s just the easy way out.
23, English Language & Linguistics graduate, iced coffee enthusiast
These are articles written by students at the University of Kent taking the module ‘Writing in the Media’
23, English Language & Linguistics graduate, iced coffee enthusiast
These are articles written by students at the University of Kent taking the module ‘Writing in the Media’
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