MTV Plans Show about Male Genitals
Last year, the premium cable network HBO premiered the series Hung, about a well-endowed man who works as a male prostitute. Now, MTV is using the same premise for a program aimed at teenagers. The Hard Times of RJ Berger is scripted comedy about a high-school outcast who becomes wildly popular when his large member is exposed to his fellow students. The show premieres in June.
More and more, the teen-targeted MTV network is imitating adult programming on other cable networks. MTV is also preparing Normal, about a teenage drug dealer, and an American version of the unbelievably explicit British program Skins.
Parents might think such content inappropriate for their children, but MTV General Manager Stephen Friedman disagrees: "[RJ Berger] really captures what our audience wants…[and] speaks to where we need to go as a network," the network head boasted in the Los Angeles Times.
With this kind of programming aimed squarely at teens, it is no wonder boys feel under pressure to have sex.
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