'Sally4Ever': Why graphic sex scenes on TV still make us cringe

Why is it we don't cringe at explicitly sexual content in movies or even porn, but we do on TV shows including 'Sally4Ever' and 'Orange is the New Black'?

"Literally insane", "Laughing, cringing, hiding, dying", "maniacal, ridiculous, disgusting brilliance", "brilliantly perverse comedy", "painful", "cringe-worthy", "what the f***?" are some of the reactions you are going to repetitively come across when you browse through people's reactions of Julia Davis' recent HBO hit 'Sally4Ever.'

The network not unknown to graphic scenes especially with incest plots on 'Game of Thrones,' A.I playthings of the rich in 'Westworld,' or even millennials' sex life in 'Girls', was handpicked by viewers to point that Sally4Ever's lesbian sex scenes of scissoring, breast slapping and Coprophilia was a bit too much even by HBO's standards.

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