I notice that Playboy Channel is more expensive than HBO, Showtime, or any of the other premium channels.
Does anyone here have the Playboy Channel? I’ve always been curious -what do they actually show on there? How do they justify the expense? Do they actually show hardcore, or is it mainly the sort of cheesecake fluff you get on “Girls Next Door” but with the nudity unblurred?
About 8 years ago, I had the Playboy channel. It was mostly like late night Cable TV, with lots of softcore shows or movies. They also had documentaries and other stuff, usually with a sexual angle.
Then, just before I ended teh service, they instituted the “Directors Cut” movies, which I loved. they were full blown hard-core porn, lacking only in the final “money shot”, which worked well for my now ex-wife.
I haven’t seen it since then, sad to say.
Got it free for a week and watched two or three times and it generally sucked. Better porn available on line just about everywhere.
Way back in 1990, my “bachelor party” consisted of me and 3 videos I’d rented from Pic-A-Flick’s “back room.” They were labeled “XX - Mellow,” which I soon discovered meant “no cumshots.” A couple of years later, I gave Playboy Channel a try because my cable company offered it on a pay-per-view basis. $9.99 for 6 hours or something like that. I was sorely disappointed to learn that the most explicit movies they showed were of the “XX - Mellow” variety as well.
(However, that evening of pay-per-view did introduce me to a film which I enjoyed so much in its “mellow” version that I eventually sought out and purchased the full version, and occasionally enjoy to this day. So it wasn’t money completely wasted.)
Yeah, the Spice channel or some of the others that are available on my cable lineup are more explicit than I remember Playboy channel as being; they show full insertion and “money shots” for example. They still won’t show the really hardcore stuff, though. Like Lanzy said, better porn is available online and it’s free.
Used to be hardcore without penetration shown, it sucked. Now its playboy specific programing with regular hardcore movies thrown in. Paying for porn has been utterly pointless since around 1995.
I thought this thread might be about the Playboy Channel on Sirius Radio (I am not kidding). It used to be that you had to specifically ask for the channel, which I think nobody ever did, but when Sirius finally merged operations with XM they made it a regular channel.
In two words: it sucks. It is so bad it goes beyond “so bad, it’s good” and even past “so bad, it’s like watching a car wreck.” Their best program consists of a “sex expert” (actually a retired female porn star) giving “sex advice” to hillbilly rednecks too afraid to say dirty words like “penis” or “vagina.” You can listen to it for about 30 seconds before your brain starts leaking out of your ears. The other shows are worse; I’ve never been able to listen to them for more than 10 seconds. I suppose it’s a metaphor for the general decline of Sirius Radio, but it honestly makes Howard Stern sound like Masterpiece Theatre, and that’s saying something.
Playboy bought the Spice channel specifically so that it could have a hardcore outlet without using the Playboy brand name on it.
Do you get anything extra by getting the channel? Like maybe access to the website or a free magazine subscription?
Carpal tunnel.
I get the Playboy Channel. (I have a friend at the cable company) It’s showing more hardcore movies but without the pop shot or anal. It used to just show vanilla movies from Vivid, but lately it has shown movies from other companies that are a bit more hardcore and gonzo, yet still no pop shots.
I have a feeling that it’s getting closer to showing everything.
I’ve tried to listen to it on Sirius a few times, but I couldn’t listen for more than 5 minutes or so before I had to change the channel.
Winner!
Bonus points cuz it was in succession.
One of my ex-girlfriends (note that we’re going on 10 years of being ex’s, and she’s a VERY different person now than when we dated) is a regular guest on Playboy Radio, so I feel obligated to listen now and then. I really don’t get why other people would CHOOSE to listen to this stuff. It’s just lower brow Howard Sternish stuff…
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It is creepy.
Two girls, one topless, one with a camera, they read from the prompter, “Karl in Tulsa sent an e-mail, he wants to see Candy’s butt.” Then the one with the camera takes video of Candy’s butt.
So I am watching this, thinking what a loser Karl in Tulsa is because is watching this crap, just like I am … and I reach for the control to go to PBS to make up for it.
I remember, as a teenage boy back in the early 80s, learning how to un-scramble the Playboy channel. It was glorious. Probably mostly because I was a horny teenage boy, but I also remember them showing some very erotic (non-hardcore) programming. All these great European softcore erotica, Electric Blue… some really great stuff.
A few years ago, the cable I had sent some special offers in the mail, and one of them was the Playboy channel at a pretty cheap rate. I thought, “What the hell, I’m an adult. I’m single. I have great memories of the channel from when I was a kid. I’m gettin’ me the Playboy Channel!”.
So, I did. And I watched it for a while. And thought… “Wow, you have to work REALLY hard to make naked women this boring.” I really enjoy watching naked women. But… it was… just dull. I have nothing against non-hardcore, but the edited hard core was really odd. And their original shows were tedious. No more hot European softcore movies.
I cancelled it after a month.
This zombie got disinterred by a spammer – but it looks like the thread is getting more action than it did the first time around, so I’ll leave it open and it can sink or swim on its own.
Kinda like silicone breasts, I guess.
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Watching PBS makes up for watching porn?
NOW you tell me!!!:mad:
Is there somewhere I can watch a series of 30-second clips of PBS shows for a half-hour or so?