Sex: from Sitcoms to Sanctified
SITCOMS AND SEX I rarely watch television these days except for some sporting events, but once in a while I enjoy a good comedy, whether that might be a movie or a sitcom. Unfortunately, in our culture today, the phrase “good comedy” is an oxymoron. Trying to find a good, clean comedy feels as probable as winning the lottery. An article in the Gainesville Sun noted that the top four sitcoms on CBS had 53 sex jokes between them. Let’s break that down a bit. A half hour sitcom is actually about 22 minutes long minus the commercials. That means on average these sitcoms had a sex joke every minute and 40 seconds. Now here’s the kicker—this article is from 2012! I couldn’t even find data from the past few years. I wonder if sex jokes and sitcoms are so synonymous today that no one bothers counting. It would by like counting how many news stories are in a newscast. But so what? Does it matter that sex has been denigrated to sitcom humor? DOES GOD ENJOY A GOOD JOKE? First let’s consid...