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

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Pornography

Big Brother

When my mum flicked through my More magazine and saw the position of the fortnight page she did her nut. I wasn't allowed to buy the magazine after that and had to read it in secret.

Grange hill & byker grove were both discouraged.

Brookside

Magpie and Tiswas. Even Multicoloured Swapshop was frowned upon as it was on a Saturday morning and watching TV was not allowed.

The man who came and installed our colour TV on a Saturday morning turned it on to prove it worked and put Saturday morning kid's TV on. I remember feeling how forbidden it felt.

Eastenders
Dad's Army
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Pretty Woman
Grease
Dirty Dancing

Probably others too.

Considering we only had four channels on the TV until 2007 (when I was eighteen) I would say they were pretty strict

Off the top of my head, they banned:

The Simpsons
Futurama
South Park
Any kind of soap (except Neighbours, oddly)
Any kind of morning or daytime TV (the TV was never on until evenings unless it was sports or the news).

Mostly we watched BBC or Channel 4 documentaries. As I got older (I'd say from around 14) things were a bit more relaxed but obviously my opportunities were limited with one TV and four channels!

Grange Hill and anything violent / gory.

can’t recall which magazine had sex position of the week but that raised my mum’s eyebrows, then she decided it was OK cos the focus seemed to include emphasis on the female orgasm 😆

When I was very little (six or seven) I wasn’t allowed to watch The Young Ones (I think because it had a lot of swearing?) but my older siblings watched it so much that I ended up seeing every episode about 20 times anyway, whenever my parents were out.

My mum was quite strict on violence in films when I was little, so I vaguely remember not being allowed to watch The Terminator when my sister rented the VHS tape, I would have been about nine then. Other than that I can’t remember ever being banned from watching stuff. If my parents were watching it and it was on the telly at a time when I wasn’t in bed, it was allowed. My parents didn’t watch soaps or anything, so that wasn’t really an issue.

Once I got to 12 or 13 I was allowed to watch whatever I wanted really. I had a TV in my room and a late bedtime.

Obviously no internet back then so porn etc wasn’t something I’d have had access to.

Mum didn't like the word "hanky panky" in the Barbie Girl song.

Which then lead to a ban on all music videos. She then caught me watching the Eric Prydz - Call On Me music video somehow and gave up.

I actually remember her throwing her hands into the air and saying "well I give up. You'll all become sluts and whores" and she stormed off huffing and puffing.

ITV

But she let me watch IT when I was about 9!! Ffs

@VeterinaryCareAssistant I really need to know why Dad’s Army and Bedknobs & Broomsticks weren’t allowed. They are the gentlest and least offensive things ever to grace a screen!

My parents hated me watching tv full stop. It was books or bust. Nothing to do with appropriateness it was pure snobbery. They thought it was too lowbrow.

My mum would come in, walk around looking anxious and eventually turn it off and storm out.

I know it’s pathological but I inherited some of this. It makes me twitchy and anxious when my DD is on any kind of screen.

TV.
Radio.
Cinema.
Books were allowed and encouraged unless by Enid Blyton.
There was also no travel, no eating out, and a fair amount of snobbery.
I remember being in the car, aged about 11 (we'd just got the 1st car) and thinking, 'if we crash and we all are killed, I don't mind.'

I believe it was ‘More’ magazine 😄

I wasn’t allowed to watch eastenders as my
mum said all they did was shout and scream 😂

Grange Hill I was not allowed to watch

Wierdly ,I was allowed to stay up on a Wednesday at primary school age and watch all the Hammer House of Horrors but they wouldn't let me watch Tiswas.

We weren’t allowed to tune Channel 4 into the tv.

My dad hated the A-Team but I was asked allowed to watch it.

His issue, nobody died

The music of Jennifer Lopez.
My mum knows nothing about celebrity culture, she wouldn't know a Kardashian from a Jonas. But Jennifer Lopez was banned because 'she stole Mariah Carey's husband'.
It wasn't even true!

Anything American. My dad couldn't stand the accents and vocabulary.

Also ITV.

Strangely though I could watch Tiswas but not Swap Shop.

also Dallas.

My mum said I wasn't allowed to read J17 and More mag, because of the 'position of the fortnight' type bits on the other hand my dad would let me watch stuff like 'Bottom' and 'The Shining' whenever she was out. I don't think they were on the same parenting page!