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

[Trothetoy]

Pornography

The chuckle brothers think it was called chuckle vision?

Mum is absolutely convinced that they are pedophiles. No reason to think that at all. Just they give her the creeps.

I wasn’t allowed to read most teen magazines. So J17, more, cosmo and Marie Claire were disapproved of. The latter because I read an article about FGM in it when I was 10 and then got hysterical that this would happen to me soon (I’m not of a culture that carries out FGM). I’m in my 40s and she would still tut if she saw me reading these magazines

Yes! My parents were the same re horror film with kids in it. They felt that it was cruel to the child actor

All we had was the wireless and from 1956 television - 1 channel, the BBC.

Neighbours

I wasn't allowed to watch anything on ITV, the "commercial channel".

Anything with one particular actor/comedian in who for some reason my Mum couldn't bear!

My Mum refused to buy me a copy of Just 17 when I was about 10. She had a point obviously but I think most of the teen content would have gone over my head. I only wanted it because it had a poster of Patrick Swayze 😊

The Simpsons.

On the other hand, my dad used to rent videos from his workplace library with no information about the film apart from the title (pre-internet). We watched a film every night. So we did end up watching the occasional borderline blue movie as a family, with my mum fast-forwarding through the sex scenes.

There was a general disapproval of all things ITV. Channel 4 hadn’t been invented yet.

On the plus side we were actively encouraged to watch The Goodies, Hitch Hikers Guide, Not the Nine O’clock News, and The Young Ones.

Eastenders.

My parents were a bit snobby.

Lots of my friends couldn't watch Tiswas.