- Update 8/6/08 - AP article: Network TV likes sex, but not in marriage.
- Ed Veith in a World magazine article writes about the "new normal" which represents yet another step downward. After mentioning previous descents, he says:
In "The Office," arguably the funniest show on TV, it is simply taken for granted that unmarried people are having sex. there is no need for innuendo. The characters talk about their sex lives openly, and extramarital sex is normal. . . .
In the TV culture, teen sex, single adult sex, and—in the most dramatic shift in sexual mores in history—homosexuality are all perfectly acceptable, unproblematic, and normal. Conversely, traditional sexual morality is presented as weird, strange, and out of the mainstream.
Now we have "Swingtown," a new series from CBS -- not pay TV or cable but a mainline broadcast network. "Swingtown" is about wife-swapping.