Describe the effect of reality TV and cable television on depictions of sexual imagery. Provide an example using a popular reality TV show to illustrate your point.

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Reality TV has increased the raw imagery with real people who are not actors and real-life situations that involve all kinds of situations that challenge sexual norms, such as two guys sharing a girl friend, or a mother sharing a boyfriend with her daughter. Cable television has also broken taboos, such as a restriction on showing genitals, and has blurred the line between shared imagery of sex and pornography. Cable porn channels show explicit sex.

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