Restrained T.V.?

The statement that T.V. is less pornographic depends on which channel you're watching. Clearly you're not talking about Jerry Springer, The Howard Stern Show, Southpark. Oh, what about that Monica Lewinsky episode, covered in oh so creepy detail by the likes of CNN:

"According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President kissed. She unbuttoned her jacket; either she unhooked her bra or he lifted her bra up; and he touched her breasts with his hands and mouth...He stimulated me manually in the genital area."
-Kenn Starr Report, 1995

It's all in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?

Clearly these images, and some in the above listed shows are at least as "pornographic" as a Playboy centerfold, or what you get in your hotel room for $9.99. The dividing line is that many of the shows will present their pornographic moments outside a larger context of sex - a breast here, a matter of factly uttered "vagina" there. Or, even more cleverly, networks leave it up to the imagination by merely providing a scenario and simulating it. You figure out the rest. Besides, the Spice Network, Hot Network and others are all television, but maybe you don't have the Dish Network?