Entertainment and pornography

In the sexually-liberated world of EarthUnbound, where public nudity and sex are considered normal and commonplace, there is no prohibition against any amount of nudity or sex on television. The television and movie ratings systems only take **** and other mature content into account, not nudity or sex.

The amount of nudity and sex seen in a television show will naturally vary based on its type. A children’s show might possibly include a nudist character, or show a character change clothes or take a bath, or have the characters naked at a beach or in a pool on occasion, but probably won’t include actual sex very often, except maybe once in a while in a ‘learning moment’ episode. A prime-time relationship drama, on the other hand, is likely to be absolutely filled with sex. Even a typical network sitcom might include an episode where the starring couple goes at it with their neighbors in a humorously awkward foursome, and the canned laughter might kick in when the older teenage daughter walks in on the group wearing full dominatrix gear and makes a cheesy pun while cracking her whip.

Oddly enough, actual pornography never really gained any real success in the world of EarthUnbound—mainly because people are able to freely see and have sex with real people virtually any time they like, and watch people having sex on ordinary television, which left “skin mags” and “dirty movies” without much of a viable commercial audience. However, amateur Internet pornography has gradually become more and more of a phenomenon in recent years. Its rise is comparable to the rise of social media and YouTube in the real world: ordinary people sharing their own lives online. In the world of EarthUnbound, with no taboos against nudity and sex, this regularly included explicit sexual content, and thanks to a few viral hits it became popular to share funny or spectacular moments from one’s private sex life online, especially with pictures or video. And just like YouTube and social media in the real world, what started with ordinary people started to become more and more commercialized the more successful it became, so that now there are a number of professional, commercial enterprises producing scripted, produced content specifically designed to be a hit online: the most acrobatic, outrageous, kinky, or funny sex possible, in order to get the most views.

Even though pornography, per se, is largely absent from mainstream media, there are a number of “reality television” shows with sex as their central premise, which might seem largely indistinguishable from porn to somebody from the real world. Here are a few examples:

• Swingers: This simply-titled reality show is a typical “big brother” type of series, which puts a group of couples in the same large house—often at a different exotic location each season—as they swing and swap partners. They show the sex, plenty of interviews with the participants, and highlight whatever (likely ****) drama might occur, then change to a new group of participants for the next season.
• Overload: A contest type of reality show, featuring a contestant—usually a woman, but sometimes a man, or a person of another gender—trying to have sex with as many men simultaneously as possible, with an oral round, an “all-holes” round, and a bukkake round that ends with an attempt to swallow as much of the result as possible. Specific target amounts must be reached during each round in order to win ever-increasing prize amounts. The jackpot is enticingly high, but the show is designed so that almost all contestants reach some of the prize categories, but fail to achieve the final jackpot.
• Celebrity Exposure: A typical “celebrity” reality show, which features one celebrity per week, mainly D-listers and practical unknowns (most of them women, though by no means all), engaging in wild sex acts. The most common scenario for women is a gangbang in a public place where any fan may come up and join the fun (it is widely-known that the “public” place is actually cordoned off, with pre-screened fans who are selected before filming to participate, and an audience of staged onlookers). Other scenarios have the celebrity engaging in particularly unusual and **** sexual fetishes (e.g. watersports), while the host constantly asks suggestive rhetorical questions of the viewing audience about whether the celebrity is participating only for the charity money they play for, or is secretly enjoying the fringe activity.
• There are a handful of standard “all-access” celebrity reality shows that show a minor celebrity’s daily life without limits, including times when they’re nude (e.g. in the shower), as well as unrestricted access to their sex life.