It's been done before, didn't Carlsberg or somebody make the same offer for the first show?? If I'd got on I don't know whether I could have done that or not. You've got the fact theres a few million people watching probably including members of your close family which is going to cause performance issues. Then again if you did become intimate with someone and the Sun are stupid enough to pay you all that cash then who's going to say no. I wouldn't have the sex for the £50,000 but if I'd ended up having sex then I would take the money..it would be like a bonus

Interestingly enough the question of if C4 would show it if it did go on is addressed in this weeks Heat magazine. Given that they didn't show all that happened between Jade and PJ last year - Even if someone was stupid enough to do it in there then thankfully we wouldn't get to see it.

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by Milky
but if I'd ended up having sex then I would take the money..it would be like a bonus

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Or a miracle, depending on how you looked at it

The Scum? i assume you mean Channel 4?

Personally if the people involved are willing to display their sexual prowess on tv for 50gs then fair enough. No different to watchin porn on tv really. Oh btw pedanticism ahoy but Scotland, Wales and N.Ire will get a look to.

(Edited by Biff 20/05/2003 18:08)

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That's right, apparently what we really need in England is to peek at a couple of strangers shagging on camera.

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Well I guess there is a market for it Over 50% of the movies produced worldwide is in some sense xxx material..... And they do sell (for some reason). And knowing British telly most will be masked out or not visible anyways...... I guess it appeals to the people that watch this kind of program.

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by Biff
The Scum? i assume you mean Channel 4?

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Newspaper... red banner... rhymes with 'bun'... vicious peddlar of lies, propoganda and gossip masquerading as news... ring any bells?

Although... Channel 4 (the bastion of different programming) now offers more reality television than any other channel.

Curious as to why no-one objects that the award (reward) is only available to heterosexuals?

I guess that they don't want to promote homosexual activity on tv. You are right though, it is unfair to promote one type of activity and not from all sexes.

Unfair would be one word... but homophobic would be a better one.

I *could* be wrong but is it not illegal to show homosexual sex on television??

They showed homosexual sex on that series which was bloody excellent but the name has gone from my head. The one with the young lad from Manchester (Nathan?) and a bloke who used to be in Neighbours made an appearence. How vague can I be?

That was Queer as Folk, T

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by Incandenza
Curious as to why no-one objects that the award (reward) is only available to heterosexuals?

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Well here you go then. But then the outright homophobia of the Sun and most other newspapers is in itself hardly news.

As for the showing of homosexual sex on tv being illegal, as far as I am aware the showing of ANY sex on tv comes under pornography and is therefore illegal. It can be illuded to, suggested, but not actually occur. I think the same goes for a certain male organ being in .. an arroused state.

So please don't try to defend the Sun on legal grounds. They want good clean hetro sex (so, presumably nothing involving tradesmen, whatever the genders), not the dirty evil homosexual kind.

/End of fed up disgusted rant

But secretly, the Sun must be crossing their fingers for some hot steamy lesbian action. 4 boobs for the price of 2! cwoorrr.

Oh, and didn't the public vote in Josh a couple of series ago cos he pledged 'hot n steamy action' with the one other gay guy already in the house.

Personally, I'd settle for a nice simple boy/girl, girl/boy, girl/girl, boy/boy, chicken/chicken orgy.

Now that's entertainment.

The Sun is homophobic shocker! And there was I thinking Richard Littleturd was in fact Peter Tatchell in his always ingenious saggy jowled racist disguise.

Personally I couldn't care less how much cash they're offering to "get it on" the box, nor what silly stipulations they put on it. Is it bigoted? Unquestionably. Are the Scum grubby hypocrites? Well let's just say you don't get a five figure payout for answering that one. They no doubt believe that the majority of their famously tolerant readership wouldn't be the most open minded about this; and for the first time ever, they might just be right.

In fighting any prejudice you choose your battlegrounds ... and for some reason, I just can't get enthused about battling for people's right to be exploited equally by the scabbiest tabloid in circulation.

Though C4 will probably need the chicken orgy to get anyone to watch this time around ...

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by Byron
Though C4 will probably need the chicken orgy to get anyone to watch this time around ...

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Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the British Public. Ratings have increased year after year and I'd be surprised if people didn't once more tune in zombielike this time around. The motto seems to be that if enough people will settle for watching meaningless crap then lets keep putting it on television.

Picking battles is all well and good, but something about the unholy alliance of tabloid hate spreaders with moronic 'reality' television seems (to me anyway) symptomatic of the fact something is going seriously awry with Western culture.

The fact it is all laced with a liberal dose of hetero-good gay-bad morality is more of a garnish than the main issue.

(Edited by Incandenza 21/05/2003 13:05)

I'm sure lesbian sex would go down (no pun intended) pretty well......

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by CJL
But secretly, the Sun must be crossing their fingers for some hot steamy lesbian action. 4 boobs for the price of 2! cwoorrr.

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Yeah, but that's ok, 'cos they'd be doing it for our (well, for red blooded heterosexual male's) entertainment. Plus it doesn't threaten anyone's male identity.

This is low grade journalism (does it deserve to be called journalism?) degraded low grade tv. The people who read and watch this trash get what they deserve.

(Edited by Jayjay 21/05/2003 21:03)

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by Jayjay
The people who read and watch this trash get what they deserve.

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Erm, Whist, Milky.. You both read The Stun don't you?

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by Incandenza
Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the British Public. Ratings have increased year after year and I'd be surprised if people didn't once more tune in zombielike this time around. The motto seems to be that if enough people will settle for watching meaningless crap then lets keep putting it on television.

Picking battles is all well and good, but something about the unholy alliance of tabloid hate spreaders with moronic 'reality' television seems (to me anyway) symptomatic of the fact something is going seriously awry with Western culture.

The fact it is all laced with a liberal dose of hetero-good gay-bad morality is more of a garnish than the main issue.

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We used to get our jollies from bear-baiting, bare-knuckle boxing and public hangings. We've now substituted such wholesome pursuits for Jade "East Angular" Goodey. It could perhaps be argued that's progress of a sort.

Or then again not.

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,960129,00.html

An interesting article by The Guardian's Gareth McLean about this. He's also none too happy about the whole tawdry affair, and says a lot of very pertinent things about the ugly attitudes society has barely masked behind its raiment of acceptance. Though he does perhaps go a bit far in saying straight men having "fear in their eyes" when they meet a gay man. How do they know for one? Unless they're either that way inclined themselves, or the gay man happens to be dressed as Judy Garland as accosted in an alley by Lilly Savage, which is surely mitigating circumstances enough for anyone.

I've become increasingly appreciative broadsheets during the Big Brother season. Aside from the obligatory "cultural analysis" articles to take a piece of the pie, you actually have a half decent chance of banishing the indecently protracted bowel movement from your mind for the duration.

(Edited by Byron 21/05/2003 22:05)