Red Shoe Diaries and sex on TV in the 90s. (Erotic 90’s, Part 9)

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Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new possibilities for erotic content. Today we will offer a brief history of sex on TV, and then focus on Red Shoe Diaries, the cheesy-but-charming late night softcore soap that was the brainchild of 9 ½ Weeks writers/producers Zalman King and Patricia Knop. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	HALALALALALALALALALALALALALAL of London
0:13.0	Boer
0:25.7	Hello
0:27.8	Welcome to another episode
0:29.7	of you must remember this, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:41.7	I'm your host, Karina Lungworth, and this is part nine of our ongoing series, Erotic 90s.
0:59.7	Who's sex saving? Just sex, not love, just sex.
1:03.7	And sex just isn't cool without conum for protection, er, for a hooker.
1:07.7	He talked about pornographic material.
1:13.7	He gave me a lot of pleasure.
1:15.7	So we could show the sex act all over the place.
1:20.7	Sink, save the night.
1:24.7	I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this.
1:34.7	Last week, we talked about Drew Barrymore, Alicia Silverstone, and the branding of teenage girls as low-litas in 90s popular culture.
1:44.7	As Silverstone's run as the Queen of MTV proved, television could be a powerful force in projecting images of teen sexuality.
1:54.7	We've also talked in a previous episode about Beverly Hills 90210, which premiered on the Fox Network in October 1990,
2:04.7	and almost right away earned a reputation for storylines that dealt with sex in a more mature way than any TV show intended to be consumed by American teens ever had.
2:18.7	In the first season alone, there were episodes about AIDS, teen parenthood, and date rape.
2:24.7	It's two lead characters, 16-year-old twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh, both lost their virginity over the course of the show's first 22 episodes.
2:36.7	For the male twin, the de-virginization happened in episode 4 without incident.
2:42.7	But when Brenda had sex with Bad Boy Dylan McKay at the spring dance in the second-to-last episode of the season,
2:50.7	the network and the show's creator Darren Star were bombarded with criticism and hate mail.
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