CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Communications and Media Authority said SBS TV breached its codes of practice by airing a graphic documentary about erotic toys and machines.
The British documentary, titled "Obscene Machines," featured an explicit scene in which a naked woman has sex with a robotic dildo. A two-and-a-half-minute segment includes close-up shots of a naked woman apparently being penetrated by a mechanical dildo.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority investigated the program after receiving a complaint from a viewer.
"ACMA considers that the treatment of the subject matter in ‘Obscene Machines' is adult in nature and is therefore unsuitable for ordinary 15-year-old audience members," the broadcast authority said in its report.
Although the show was classified as MA15+, the Australian Communications and Media Authority deemed it "too extreme."
SBS TV reportedly described the program as an examination of "how technology is being employed by some people to artificially achieve sexual gratification, to support physically challenged relationships and to assist people who may be lonely or who have relationship difficulties."
Another segment of the documentary focuses on an elderly man's use of a lifelike sex doll that was modeled after his 18-year-old ex-wife.
SBS TV said it would not air the program again.
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