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Satisfaction under attack

Hot on the heels of outcries against TEN’s Californication, new Foxtel drama, Satisfaction, is already attracting criticism for its naked scenes and sexual frolics inside a high-class brothel.

And it hasn’t even aired yet.

The Melbourne-made drama launches on the new Showcase Channel next week, and the head of one charity group, Make-A-Wish foundation chief Sandra Brattstrom, said the Government should direct money to charity groups instead of soft-core porn TV series.

“Our organisation receives no on-going government funding and relies on the generosity of the public,” she told the Herald-Sun.

The series, like most local productions, has received some government funding. And it certainly includes candid, full-frontal nudity and adult themes. But screening on the top tier subscription TV packaging, is very different access to Californication on Free To Air. Meanwhile Showcase is so impressed with their newest series they announced a second series to go into production in 2008. That means more taxpayer money.

Certainly taxpayer monies could have been better spent, it could have gone to hospitals too. But arts funding is an easy target, where do you draw the line?

Given the series hasn’t aired yet it suggests Brattstrom is either speaking without having viewed the series, or has sighted a preview copy.

What’s that saying about “all publicity is good publicity?”

Source: Herald-Sun

10 Responses

  1. Christians complaining – again. They cant be happy until everyone thinks like them, acts like them and basically lives like them… Hmmm makes me think of a few vicious people in history that tried the same approach.

    The naked body, or sexual content does not equal the end of morality. Bad parenting and religious suffocation does: it creates closed minded socially backward children.

  2. Can’t WAIT to see this show and am so glad I stumbled across an add for it.

    Who wouldn’t like to see inside a brothel? I’ve been watching hospital and cop shows for too long.

    Bring on the brothel!!!

  3. Anonymous, if you want “wholesome”, eat more fibre.
    Last I checked our TV stations weren’t controlled by the church. Who are you to dictate what is “wholesome” or not?

    Maybe if more PARENTS actually PARENTED and used their authority to prevent their children from accessing things which as PARENTS you deem to be unsavory or inappropriate, then PARENTS wouldn’t have to rely on a host of regulating authorities and government bodies to raise their children for them.

    And the animal cruelty analogy is specious. Animal cruelty is quite rightly illegal as it causes pain and suffering to another creature. Sex is not, last I checked, illegal. Hardcore pornography is illegal in some states, however this show is not even close to hardcore pornography. It’s got some breasts in it. If you are upset by looking at a womans breasts it is your right TO TURN THE TV OFF!! It’s not even that great a show, but thanks to all the “Won’t someone think of the children!!??” people out there, it will get an absolute truckload of publicity.

    For the record I’m a woman. I don’t care about nudity on TV.
    Californication had a lot of sex, yes. It was also one of the most touching portrayals of family, love and self realisation as I’ve seen anywhere. It had wonderful, flawed characters who actually developed over the course of the series and made you care for them. If people can’t get past “I JUST SAW BOOBS, I’M GOING TO HELL!!!” then they’re pretty immature in my opinion and frankly, I feel sorry for them. They’re missing out on some amazing stories.

    And what the hell is Make a Wish getting involved in this for? Have some dignity for pity’s sake.

  4. Neon Kitten, if there was a show on TV that showed animal cruelty and I complained, would it be because I was finding it hard to “fight temptation”?

  5. I am a religious nutter as they say not becuase I abuse or manipulate people but simply becuase I want to know God.

    I think we are going backwards as a community if we keep pushing the boundaries of “wholesome TV”.

  6. Hey, I’m a founding member of this “pro-nudity” thing 😀

    Seriously, why do people get so very upset about nudity? Particularly Christians? Are they finding it THAT hard to fight temptation? 🙂

  7. oohh my, really, so do these groups protest about junk food ads during kids TV or any TV as thats a much bigger problem then an adults show with sexual content, like please, Make-A-Wish should tackle real problems in society, not some TV show for adults with adult scenes

  8. “Brattstrom”. How appropriate 🙂

    So this is basically another “awww no fair, they got money and we didn’t” children’s tantrums. Give me a break, Brattstrom.

    I’m hoping now that the religious extremists have been comprehensively told to sod off via last Saturday’s election, these cries of “soft core porn!!!” will finally stop. Certainly the extremists no longer have a friendly attorney-general there to save us all from – gawd helllp us all – SOFT CORE PORN! Especially when it’s not porn at all, but simply some nakedness in the middle of a drama series.

    The religious nutters made utter fools of themselves with their moronic, backward tirades against Californication, which in fact was a drama series that was ALL about family. How ironic. “Make A Wish” really shouldn’t make the same stupid mistake, as unlike the religious nutters, Make A Wish actually does good work.

    However, they need to understand that arts funding and charity funding are very different things.

    Oh, and by the way, the Australian government funded the doco “Naked On The Inside” that was seen on SBS last weekend. Nakedness everywhere – naked ex-model, naked breast cancer victim, naked amputee, naked obese woman. Guess that’d be “soft core porn” as well, publicity seekers? Hmmm?

    We need more nudity on TV, and less subversive rhetoric.

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