Sex in the News. Part One {R-Rated}

Sex In The News. Part One {R-rated}

“And that’s why birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.”

The lyrics of Cole Porter’s 1920’s song, “Let’s Do It,” was a tad risque’ for its time even if its time was the Roaring Twenties when flappers were re-inventing the social structure and staging an early version of women’s liberation.

What the birds and the bees and both educated and uneducated fleas were doing wasn’t just flocking or buzzing or biting together but rather propagating their respective species via sex.

Despite the flappers, that subject–not propagation but recreational sex–had long been taboo in Hollywood and TV where censors always required one participant to have one foot firmly planted on the floor in bedroom scenes and words such as “pregnant” were verbotten.

Lucy and Ricky had to have twin beds because, God forbid, married couples couldn’t be seen sharing a bed. And Lucy wasn’t pregnant, she was having a baby which was more explicit language than was permissible when George Bailey’s wife conceived a child in “It’s a Wonderful Life” ten years earlier.

Mary Bailey was “on the nest.”

We’ve come a long way, baby, . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1441)