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What types of media content did your parents disapprove of you seeing growing up?

87 replies

Trothetoy · 20/09/2023 16:16

Pornography

OP posts:
Coffeaddict · 20/09/2023 16:20

Friends my mum was insistent it didn't represent real life and real women didn't go around sleeping with different men.

As an adult I had a conversation with her about life in the 60 and she told me it was just after the pill was invented it was the age of drugs sex and rock and roll. But friends was an issue 🤣

vodkaredbullgirl · 20/09/2023 16:22

Are you bored OP lol

Nopenopenopenopenopenope · 20/09/2023 16:24

Hmm. I can't remember anything particularly was objected to. I was allowed to watch Bottom, the Young Ones, Blackadder, Red Dwarf etc. when I was probably a bit young for it. Glad I did though.

Do remember my mum taking exception to me repeating Kryten's "smeeeeeeg heeeeead" although she was so repressed she wouldn't explain to me what it even meant so I saw no reason to stop 😂

RonObvious · 20/09/2023 16:24

Grange Hill!

I watched The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys and more, but Grange Hill was an absolute no-go!

Wnikat · 20/09/2023 16:26

Eastenders

Sparklesocks · 20/09/2023 16:28

In fairness I think most parents don’t want their kids watching porn 😁

Anything too gory or violent wasnt allowed in my house until we were older

walttynutcade · 20/09/2023 16:29

My grandma had the News of The World every Sunday and as children when we visited our parents insisted it was hidden from us , we spent most of the afternoon looking for it 🤣🤣
Now I look back and realise because we were not allowed to read it it made us want to and it was a load of old rubbish anyway.

Gerrataere · 20/09/2023 16:33

I wasn’t allowed to watch Red Dwarf in later primary even though it was all my friends talked about. Then when asked about it, so called friends said ‘no we’re not allowed to watch it either’. Liars 😂.

I was allowed to watch Ab Fab from a young age though as my mother loved it, fully thought we had an Eddie/Saffy relationship (why on earth any sane mother would want that is beyond me), and was allowed to watch South Park which started when I was 11. Even got me the movie on VHS. Very odd really.

Taylorswiftserastour · 20/09/2023 16:33

ITV

ghostyslovesheets · 20/09/2023 16:36

Magpie - we were a Blue Peter house!

NameChangedForThis195206644 · 20/09/2023 16:37

Another who was banned from watching Eastenders

BubblesWoo · 20/09/2023 16:38

The Simpsons because she thought it was inappropriate.

Dexters laboratory as she found it annoying.

Ponderingwindow · 20/09/2023 16:40

Tv and movies with sexual
content were too risqué. Totally fine with plenty of violence. The typical skewed attitude of the 80s.

with our own child we tended to
avoid violence. Sexual content was age appropriate, with a heavy focus on whether or not it portrayed a healthy relationship or not.

hanahsaunt · 20/09/2023 16:41

All of ITV unless it was the evening and thus dull adverts for children.
All soaps apart from Neighbours because that was a blurred line following directly from children's BBC.
Grange Hill.
Dr Who because db had nightmares.
ToTP because "it's rubbish"
All TV before 4pm on a weekday and 5pm at the weekend.

Didn't feel I was missing out though...

modgepodge · 20/09/2023 16:41

RonObvious · 20/09/2023 16:24

Grange Hill!

I watched The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys and more, but Grange Hill was an absolute no-go!

It was Byker Grove in our house 🤣

there was a teenage pregnancy story in it when I was in late primary. Had I watched it, I would have instantly become pregnant, obviously.

many teenage magazines were banned for similar reasons. Reading about anorexia would have given me anorexia, reading about kissing would again have led to a teenage pregnancy.

BogRollBOGOF · 20/09/2023 16:41

Neighbours. Any Austrailian soap.
The xenophobia was strong.

StJulian2023 · 20/09/2023 16:42

RonObvious · 20/09/2023 16:24

Grange Hill!

I watched The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys and more, but Grange Hill was an absolute no-go!

Also came on to say Grange Hill! My mum didn’t want me to be put off secondary school. Turns out my secondary school was worse haha

BodegaSushi · 20/09/2023 16:42

Trothetoy · 20/09/2023 16:16

Pornography

Really? Shocking

bakermummy21 · 20/09/2023 16:43

Cosmopolitan magazine

TaigaSno · 20/09/2023 16:45

I've lived in a different world from you OP. It wouldn't have even occurred to my parents that I would ever access pornography, nor would I have known where to find it.

I wasn't allowed to read Just Seventeen magazine when I was younger than 17.

Throwncrumbs · 20/09/2023 16:45

We had 3/4 channels on tv that finished at 11pm and didn’t start until about 8am, radio which also wasn’t 24/7 and newspapers. I remember waking up to go to work in 79 to the shipping forecast!

LubaLuca · 20/09/2023 16:46

Sex and swearing were completely verboten, but there was no problem with me watching every (non-sexy or -sweary) horror film going. I was having nightmares all the time, but I didn't know what a man and a woman who loved each other very much did together so that was okay.

RonObvious · 20/09/2023 16:46

TaigaSno · 20/09/2023 16:45

I've lived in a different world from you OP. It wouldn't have even occurred to my parents that I would ever access pornography, nor would I have known where to find it.

I wasn't allowed to read Just Seventeen magazine when I was younger than 17.

When I was a kid, one could only access one's pornography via discarded magazines in bushes. They were simpler times.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 20/09/2023 16:57

ITV. Up Pompeii. Monty Python.

JobMatch3000 · 20/09/2023 17:08

Channel 4.
Dynasty.
Dallas.