It's hard to write this without sounding like an ancient prude or an echo of the overheated, we're-in-danger-of-losing-our-mortal-souls! bombast of the often-reactionary Parents Television Council.

MTV’s latest series Skins aired its first episode last week (and its second last night) to the tune of a whole lot of controversy. From CNN to MSNBC to the friggin’ Today Show, comparisons likening ...

After nearly four months of intense contention, the semi-coherent debate continues to rage over Bree Davies’s assessment of the first episode of the MTV version of the popular U.K. series Skins, now ...