By Jon Abbott
(Black and white / 710 pages / grownup content material and robust language)
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I admit it, I enjoy a good trashy sex film with a glass of wine and a bag of chips. And so do most of you. The sales figures say so. Our culture says so. The advertising industry says so. And everyone in the media knows that if you put a sex scene or a nude scene in a film, play, or TV show you treble the audience. Given that everyone knows this, it’s quite frankly amazing that there isn’t much more sex and nudity in the media than there is. We should be drowning in it. But people can still be a bit weird about sex, even in the 21st century.
Much of Benny Hill’s humor, for example, is outdated and puerile, but I think as always, we laugh at recognition of the truth (contrary to media myth, more women found Benny Hill funny than men, in my experience). The rest, as with Hill, comes from the sheer likability of the characters and the people who play them so brilliantly. It’s difficult not to laugh at Sid James’ brazen lechery, Kenneth Williams’ prudish horror, Charles Hawtrey’s cheerful effeminacy, and Hattie Jacques’ bossy authority, just as it's tough to resist the impish, knowing grin of Benny Hill.
There is an understanding of sexism (defined here in its original specific interpretation as prejudice against gender, as opposed to puritanically condemning aspects of sexual pleasure), and tough shit if you’re uptight about that. There is history, written if not yet by the winners, by someone fighting our corner. But please note that this book is advertised as opinionated. If you don’t like or agree with my perspective, then that is your prerogative, no doubt based on your own cultural influences and personal experiences, but understand that I’m looking forward to the present from the 1970s as equally as I’m looking back from the present.