July 09, 2008

Porn and rugby, but not quite sporno

We have been vindicated again in our never ending fascination with sex and sport when even mainstream channels have put both together in a weekend afternoon schedule. Prime TV screened a few minutes of porn during its "grassroots" rugby show, as technicians got the wiring wrongly linked up for Sky's pay-per-porn channel Spice:excess.
But instead of going all ga-ga over it, what a great opportunity for fathers and sons, who were already bonding over a game of "grassroots" rugby that afternoon, to make it easy to have a chat about the other facts of male life, amply illustrated with visuals courtesy of your pay TV subscription.
Perhaps Sky TV should go off on a new marketing campaign promoting its sex and sports channels in one easy male bonding package.

And isn't it interesting that all the "male" channels on Sky (Sports, Movies, Rugby, Porn) are only available when paying through the nose on top of your basic subscription, while Sky has been hastily adding channels aimed at females to its basic package (e.g. Vibe, Fashion TV). It's hard to be a guy!

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