Just curious. Not clear of what the content limitations of cable TV are. Could you have real explicit penetrative sex depicted on “Game of Thrones” for example?
Yes they could, if they wanted to. There aren’t any content restrictions on cable, aside from whatever standards a channel (and its advertisers, if any) choose for themselves.
HBO isn’t cable, it’s a premium channel. Cinemax shows penetration late at night do they not? They’re a premium channel too, so if they can I’d assume HBO can.
What do you consider real? Some of that softcore stuff is very clearly real but with the camera angled in such a way so that you don’t see the actual penetration. Cathouse shows plenty of real sex, but if the actual penetration is on camera it gets blurred out.
Has Brown Bunny or Shortbus ever made it onto TV?
(FYI, Brown Bunny is a terrible movie, Shortbus is a great movie but it is essentially gay porn with a (good) plot).
Of course it’s cable. Do you think it gets into your house through the gas pipes? The fact that it’s a premium channel is irrelevant, except inasmuch as premium channels do not have to answer to advertisers for their content.
They do not.
It gets to my house via satellite.
Yeah, but from your satellite dish it gets into your house via a cable. 
Freido is correct. Any non broadcast channel may show any content it wishes. Doesn’t matter if it is a premium channel or not. Their programming is determined by their own standards. FCC has no power as to their content.
I’ve seen actual penetration* on basic cable.
*Granted it was a documentary, and the camera was placed inside the vagina.
Can anyone verify this? I never believed softcore had actual penetration. I figure if the actors and actresses are going to do penetration they need to be paid extra for that. Plus the stigma that comes with having actual sex on camera.
It was hard getting both the cameraman and the director in there. Fortunately they left the tripod outside.
Sometimes adult films are shot hardcore (ie with real penetrations & cumshots) then edited softcore versions are created for different distrubtors in different markets. It’s not much a problem in the US, but in coutries like the UK or Canada where all videos must be classified by a government agency hardcore movies (ie films that clearly & graphicly show actual sex acts) may have restrictions placed on them that films softcore movies don’t. For example in the UK a hardcore porno would have a rating of R18 and could only be sold in specially licenced sex shops and not sold by male order, but with some creative editing the same film could be rated 18 and sold (to adults) by any place that sells videos. I think some Canadian provinces have similar restrictions.
Some of the actors in softcore, like Randy Spears, is also in hardcore. I don’t think he’d have any problem with doing actual penetration. I’d also guess that some of the stuff that you see on HBO/Cinemax is just recut to make it hardcore. That is, the take the other angles, edit out some of the story, add in more sex and release it on DVD.
I remember hearing that Pirates had something like 40 different versions just depending on how graphic it was allowed to be based on the region is was being released to.
Bold part is my doing.
My, alphaboi, that was just a completely awesome typo!!
Not as good as the distrubtors typo.
If aliens watched softcore porn that would be convinced that humans reproduce by writhing around on top of each other.
I’ve never seen penetration in softcore porn nor have I seen a money shot.
And you never will because then it wouldn’t be soft core.
Back in the early 80s, when cable first appeared in Alaska, the one Anchorage cable channel showed hard-core porn after midnight. Nobody raised a fuss that I remember.
There are no laws or rules that govern cable content. What stops Cable stations from showing it is advertisers and what stops premium channels is fear of losing subscribers. Networks have been fighting tooth and nail to change this but as far as I know that is still how it works.
HBO once aired a documentary about the vintage porno movie Deep Throat that actually showed the “title scene”, no blurs or anything.
Some of those Real Sex type shows they run sometimes show a little penetration but it’s usually either really ugly people, bad angles where you can barely tell there’s real penetration happening, or some combination thereof. And sometimes, it’s blurred, like Cathouse.