Tonights Emmerdale

pmbuzz · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:27

Now, i don't normally watch Emmerdale, as a rule i don't watch soaps per sé.
Anway, the missus was watching it tonight along with my 10 yr old daughter.

At approx 19:16 there was a scene with two grown men kissing very amorously or "snogging" as my daughter put it, this lead to a couple of awkward questions from her as you can imagine !!
This was then followed by a bedroom scene in which the two characters had obviously just had sex.

To say i was shocked would be an understatement, shocked not at the content of the scenes but at the time they were aired.

Am i overreacting ?

The_TailGunner · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:28

PeterNem · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:31

Vampy · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:31

If it was a man and a women, would you be posting about it?

camels5 · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:32

Although I didn't see Emmerdale, I do think that soaps seem to get away with things that are not suitable for family viewing I certainly don't let my son see them. All children do need to learn what is going on in the world around them but somtimes these programmes force the issue on them before they are ready.

233 · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:33

not exactly family veiwing though is it

kip02 · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:33

Yes, but would you still be feeling the same if your daughter was not present.

Wicksta · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:33

NickXX · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:34

I think you should write a stern letter.

233 · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:36

he's just worried as it turned him on

PeterNem · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:37

There's a gay person in Corrie too, how are we going to cope? Before the watershed too!

The_TailGunner · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:37

you see, what you SHOULD be doing, is not letting them watch soaps because they are mindless drivel.

even cartoons are better.

I truely do not understand why people watch soaps/reality crap (live soaps in effect). If you really really cant find something better to watch (unlikely - discovery/national geo/ history channel ***), then read a book, or play a game or even just have a conversation.

Hell- go and repeatedly smash your head into a wall or take up self harming - anything but watch soaps!

camels5 · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:39

Vampy said:
If it was a man and a women, would you be posting about it?

Well most children see parents in bed together at some point and assume thats the norm. Young children are taught that sex produces babies and it takes a mum and dad for that to happen, so why are 2 men /women in bed together? My son knows that being gay means that 2 people of the same sex love each other. He does not need to know about the physical side of that relationship yet. Only when he asks is he ready to know.

KNiVES · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:40

Write a letter of complaint 'wheres the gay sex'.

I would imagine there would be a few complaints going because of that gay kiss scene. The audience that Emmerdale caters to (lovely old ladies who make their postmen cake) would be shocked and such.

Ice Rich · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:41

TTIUWP

Wicksta · 12 Nov 2007 at 19:47

camels5 said:
Well most children see parents in bed together at some point and assume thats the norm. Young children are taught that sex produces babies and it takes a mum and dad for that to happen, so why are 2 men /women in bed together? My son knows that being gay means that 2 people of the same sex love each other. He does not need to know about the physical side of that relationship yet. Only when he asks is he ready to know.

So what would you do if you took your son out and there was a gay couple in the street?

camels5 · 12 Nov 2007 at 20:02

Wicksta said:
So what would you do if you took your son out and there was a gay couple in the street?

Answer any question it raised. However I think there is a difference in seeing thinks in real life than there is on t.v. My son is unlikey to see any one having sex on the street ( well not Lowestoft i hope

) T.V. obviously glorifies things in order to get an audience and people talking about it. I just happen to think that before 8 or 9 pm our t.v. should be family viewing. ( although it has been said that the OP could always turn off the soaps)

Wicksta · 12 Nov 2007 at 20:06

camels5 said:
Answer any question it raised. However I think there is a difference in seeing thinks in real life than there is on t.v. My son is unlikey to see any one having sex on the street ( well not Lowestoft i hope) T.V. obviously glorifies things in order to get an audience and people talking about it. I just happen to think that before 8 or 9 pm our t.v. should be family viewing. ( although it has been said that the OP could always turn off the soaps)

So this gay couple were having sex on TV? In that case I see the OP's point.

Fireblade2K4 · 12 Nov 2007 at 20:12

I was lazing on the sofa as it was on and I found it quite off putting, I don't think it was good to air a scene of that context at the time it was shown, I expect iTV will get a few letters of complaint about that one.

Stu

The_TailGunner · 12 Nov 2007 at 20:15

Wicksta said:
So this gay couple were having sex on TV? In that case I see the OP's point.

no, the OP states they were in bed, having oviously just finished having sex.

wether that means panting and grinning or one was wiping his todger on the curtains is anyone's guess