If there’s such a thing as a straight male being a closet Sex In The City fan, allow me to just come out and say it: I, a straight male, watch Sex In The City. I watched it when it was on HBO. I watched the first movie, and of course, I will definitely watch the sequel.
Does this make me any less of a man? Only if I watched because I enjoyed the fashion in the movies and the series, but I don’t. I watch because I enjoy seeing women get out of their clothes.
Allow me to explain in an unnecessarily long-winded fashion…
When I was a kid, if it was a cartoon I was watching it. It didn’t matter what it was, if CNN would have made animated news stories, I would have watched every one of them. She-Ra, My Little Pony, Care Bears; yep, I watched them all, in addition to Thundercats, G.I. Joe, and He-Man. For me, I didn’t separate one cartoon from the other based on something like gender. The way I saw it, there was no difference between Alvin and The Chipmunks and The Chipettes. Both of them were cartoons and all cartoons were for kids. I’m sure psychologists out there have some sort of name for the relationship between kids and cartoons, but I don’t know what it is, to me, it just makes sense.
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Eventually, I grew out of my cartoon phase and wanted to watch real people television, which essentially meant anything with nudity. If there was any chance of nudity being seen, I would watch it. And though I’d blame it on puberty, once that phase concluded, I still found myself willing to sit through some 3-hour 18th-century love story where everyone is talking in old English if it meant at some point, I would get to see some young starlet taking her top off. If an HBO show warned me a movie would contain ‘BRIEF NUDITY’ or ‘NUDITY’, I was tuning in, I didn’t care, which is exactly how they hooked me into Sex and The City
Especially in the show’s early years, there always seemed to be a ‘BN’ or ‘N’ (the letters HBO uses to signify Brief Nudity and Nudity respectfully) warning before the latest episode of Sex and The Cityaired. There would even occasionally be an ‘SC’ (Sexual Content) warning, which meant that episode was going to be particularly randy. So long as I received these signifiers before the show aired, I knew it was more than safe to watch.
Of course, some people reading this are already rolling their eyes and probably saying things like, ‘If you want to see naked chicks getting it in, why don’t you just watch porn.’ And yeah, I hear that, but come on, sometimes porn is so rude. Sometimes, I prefer to watch women who don’t make a living having sex on camera, have sex on camera. I don’t need a woman with some sexually charged screen name to turn me on, sometimes, Miranda, Samantha, Carrie, and Charlotte are just fine. And I definitely don’t need a half-hour sex scene to satisfy my senses; sometimes the one-minute scenes they show in SATC will do just fine.
So yeah, in a nutshell (no pun intended), that’s why I watch SATC and why I will watch SATC 2, which premiers today: For the nudity. Does it make me a pervert? Eh, that’s debatable. But does it make me a red-blooded, straight male? Absolutely.
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