Oh, Mull of Kintyre...

Albeit seen through an infra-red camera, but was this week's Money Programme about Viagra the first programme ever to show an erect penis on British television? I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it until now.

(And yeah, I know there was that pixelated one on Joan Bakewell's "Taboo", but you couldn't really see it. Though JB looked impressed.)

Was it the first time you'd seen one? Were you shocked? Surprised? Impressed?

And what's it got to do with the Mull of Kintyre?

Isn't it Cornwall you're thinking of?

The first time on TV. Very dodgy area legally, you know.

The first time in infra-red too, for that matter. I'm not *that* kinky.



You must know about the Mull of Kintyre rule, surely?

Am sure I saw an erection on Sex Inspectors - not filmed in infra-red but by one of those cameras which shows how hot/cold different things are. Y'know, heat sensitive.

It's Cornwall. I have never heard it referred to as the Mull of Kintyre.

The "Mull of Kintyre" rule was only ever applied by the BBFC, and it's now an obsolete policy anyway - has been for some years.

Pardon my ignorance, having had very limited encounters with erect penises. But what is the 'Mull of Kintyre' rule?

Cornwall appears to be a slightly more relaxed version of the rule.

Essentially a penis that appears in profile at a higher angle than Cornwall is on the map, is not allowed. The Mull of Kintyre appears to be rather prudish.

Thanks. I'd never compared Cornwall to a penis before, but now you mention it...

Basie-Moi has been shown on Sky Cinema complete with actual hardcore sex scenes.

It's definitely not the first time an erection's been shown on TV. During Channel 4's Banned season in the early 90s, a programme called Sex And The Censors featured a sequence with two men fighting naked whilst both fully aroused. Believe me, you remember these things when you're a hormone-crazed fourteen year old, as I was at the time!

I believe Channel 4 got a massive fine and a seriously huge telling-off for this programme, although IIRC, not for this scene in particular - other parts of the programme were much more controversial.

An errect penis was seen each weekday on BBC One until last year...

..everytime Robert Kilroy-Silk moved around the studio on Kilroy.


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