Skin-e-max Squabble: Will Softcore Porn Ruin the Web?
Comcast has announced plans to stream Cinemax shows online, meaning partial nudity and simulated sex will soon come to the Web. “This is taking things too far,” advocates say.
The Internet is facing what may be its biggest shake-up ever as Comcast prepares to start streaming Cinemax content online. The cable giant announced it would offer Cinemax programming free to its cable subscribers, making softcore porn widely available on the World Wide Web.
“We know it’s a controversial move,” a Comcast representative tells eSarcasm. “We feel, though, that the users of the Web are ready to see human beings engaged in the beautiful act of simulated and cleverly covered up lovemaking.”
Known for its risqué late-night programming, Cinemax regularly features adult-oriented features such as the upcoming “Forbidden Science,” a futuristic production in which “erotic desires are fulfilled by androids and virtual sex escapades are common place.” The very description of the film was enough to create excitement in some Comcast subscribers.
“You mean, we’ll be able to watch videos of women having sex — where you don’t actually see anything?” Internet user Alex Gormon, 17, writes on the eSarcasm Forums. “That’s going to be rad!”
Everyone, of course, isn’t equally excited. Several protest groups are already planning to try to stop the debut of Cinemax material on Comcast’s Web site, claiming the presence of such “smut” would bring a dark shadow over the otherwise wholesome Internet.
“This kind of filth absolutely cannot come to our children’s computers,” says Dr. Jack Knoff, a spokesperson for the Parents Against the Showing of Subtly Masked Genitals. “Watching hardcore amateur action online is one thing — that’s perfectly natural — but exposing our teenagers to this type of coyly filmed dry humping is taking things too far.”
A Cinemax representative was not immediately available for comment.
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