Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2025 12:07 am
https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
This article isn't directly related to MAPs at all but I thought it was interesting and thought provoking.
I was watching Malcolm in the Middle the other day(good shows with boy eye-candy are far and few between, so Malcom in the Middle is one of my go-tos when I want something on in the background) and it occurred to me how many episodes there are which mention sexual topics casually and humorously, like Malcom and his brother discussing wanting to get to "second base" with their girlfriends, references to Hal and Louis being horny for one another, and even occasional masturbation jokes. There are also frequent scenes showing the boys in their underwear.
This was in a family TV show meant for kids and parents alike. Regular, mainstream, network family TV. Everyone from the children to the adults were portrayed as innately sexual beings comfortable in their own bodies.
What modern day "family" TV show has anything like this? It's unheard of. The family sitcom is an incredibly sterile, sanitized genre nowadays. They wouldn't dare make these same kind of casual references to sex, especially not sex among children, in any family-friendly sitcom on air right now. In fact, I'm struggling to even think of examples of family sitcoms which feature both adult and child characters together frequently in the same show. There are just primarily adult-oriented sitcoms like Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, etc and primarily kids-oriented sitcoms like Disney and Nick kids slop. Adult and child media have become more segregated. The "family" show as something which appeals to kids and adults both, with frequent adult inside jokes/sexual subtext integrated into the surface level kid friendly humor, is a dying genre as far as I can tell. Maybe because everyone in the family has their own personal screen now and kids are no longer forced to put up with adults controlling the living room TV. Even old kid's cartoons like classic Spongebob used to have sexual allusions within some jokes. These days if any kid's cartoon made sexual references for the adults it would cause a moral panic over grooming or subliminal pedophilia.
Showing child characters in their underwear also seems to be much less common in sitcoms today compared to in the 70's-90's. Same with child nudity in movies, at least in American movies. Before the 80's or so you might occasionally see a nude kid in a movie, but there are virtually zero American produced films made after 1980 which show child nudity at all. Even though it's technically legal here to do so, American filmmakers simply refuse to do it.
This article isn't directly related to MAPs at all but I thought it was interesting and thought provoking.
I was watching Malcolm in the Middle the other day(good shows with boy eye-candy are far and few between, so Malcom in the Middle is one of my go-tos when I want something on in the background) and it occurred to me how many episodes there are which mention sexual topics casually and humorously, like Malcom and his brother discussing wanting to get to "second base" with their girlfriends, references to Hal and Louis being horny for one another, and even occasional masturbation jokes. There are also frequent scenes showing the boys in their underwear.
This was in a family TV show meant for kids and parents alike. Regular, mainstream, network family TV. Everyone from the children to the adults were portrayed as innately sexual beings comfortable in their own bodies.
What modern day "family" TV show has anything like this? It's unheard of. The family sitcom is an incredibly sterile, sanitized genre nowadays. They wouldn't dare make these same kind of casual references to sex, especially not sex among children, in any family-friendly sitcom on air right now. In fact, I'm struggling to even think of examples of family sitcoms which feature both adult and child characters together frequently in the same show. There are just primarily adult-oriented sitcoms like Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, etc and primarily kids-oriented sitcoms like Disney and Nick kids slop. Adult and child media have become more segregated. The "family" show as something which appeals to kids and adults both, with frequent adult inside jokes/sexual subtext integrated into the surface level kid friendly humor, is a dying genre as far as I can tell. Maybe because everyone in the family has their own personal screen now and kids are no longer forced to put up with adults controlling the living room TV. Even old kid's cartoons like classic Spongebob used to have sexual allusions within some jokes. These days if any kid's cartoon made sexual references for the adults it would cause a moral panic over grooming or subliminal pedophilia.
Showing child characters in their underwear also seems to be much less common in sitcoms today compared to in the 70's-90's. Same with child nudity in movies, at least in American movies. Before the 80's or so you might occasionally see a nude kid in a movie, but there are virtually zero American produced films made after 1980 which show child nudity at all. Even though it's technically legal here to do so, American filmmakers simply refuse to do it.