Commercials get a bit less family friendly

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Steamy sex with KY Intrigue (“For the love of your life”) is advertised on the USA Network at 9 on a Saturday morning during The Breakfast Club. Three competing brands of “male enhancement” are pitched at all hours of the day, including Enzyte spots with an Andy Griffith-style whistling soundtrack suggesting a parody. Yes, television has become like a collection of tawdry Kefauver Commission magazines for lonely, juvenile males. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that national cable has reached a new low by broadcasting spots, possibly for the first time outside of Manhattan cable channels, for X-rated porn: Digital

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