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02 October 2006
I am tired but ...→[More:]... I am staying up late to watch a documentary on channel 4 about large penises. I set the video to record it but it's been a while since I saw one so I can't wait until tomorrow.
If it's the one that's repeated then it's actually kind of depressing.
And no, I'm not just saying that because I'm a man and it depressed me in a "Why isn't my cock that big" way. It's just really depressing.
My first year teaching high school, the health teacher did an art project. Plastered all around the room were giant penis drawings on colorful construction paper. Then there was the spring suicide unit...
Based only on the replays of BBC 'SCIENCE' shows that are shown on US TV, I have to conclude that the BBC is absolutely, desperately, obsessed with all things sex-related. There is ALWAYS some documentary on about breast size, pheromones, penises, hair-flipping and neck-stroking, or some other EP BS about sexual attraction between men and women.
Come on, Brits! Stop watching TV and go out and get some already.
Abraham Lincoln said a man's legs should be 'long enough to reach the ground'. I would think that would be too long for a penis. But that's only if you're standing up.
Yankee TV seems pretty sex-obsessed too. And dumber and cruder about it.
I'm not really going to defend USian TV, since I really don't like it either. It can be sex-obsessed, sure, but not in the same way I was talking about. Anyway, I'd say violence is clearly our greater obsession (fucked up in itself). But what we really don't have are as many of these pseudo-documentaries on the science of sex. Every time I turn on PBS there's another one on, from the BBC. We just don't have too many shows of that variety. Nor do we have those other sorts of edutainment shows about psychology or magic tricks or the like.
And yeah, maybe the US would be a better place if we did. But they're silly!