I can’t say it’s weird but I used to love watching the Italian and German national channels on Sky satellite TV when I was 11. As soon as 8pm came around in the UK, it was 9pm in Europe and suddenly the Euro channels would put on softcore comedic porn 😉 Of course I’d switch over quick every time my mum walked in the room back to the Two Ronnies or Bruce Forsyth.
The German shows were like an dirtier version of Benny Hill! And the Italian ones always had adult game shows and strip poker where only women played. They were truly beautiful glamour models who frequently stripped down to G strings while the audience clapped! I’m not making this up! I found out one of the shows was called Colpo Grosso.
Can anyone explain what the hell it was about and why it was on national TV? It must have been produced by Silvio Berlusconi himself!
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Yes, softcore porn was quite readily available on German TV in the 1990s but then for some reason it stopped. They were often older films that were actually made in the 1970s. The most iconic franchise was [Schoolgirl Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulm%C3%A4dchen-Report).
Like you I watched it as a teen – always on guard if parents might enter the room.
[Tutti Frutti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(game_show)) was a German erotic game show, a remake of Italian game shows. I never watched this one as I was still too young.
My favorite was the [Emanuelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle) movie franchise. Those were actually high quality softcore films that afaik are still popular today. A movie channel in my cable package recently aired a few of them.
I don’t know why but the era of erotica/softcore on TV ended some time in the late nineties. I guess the German movies were just too outdated.
In Austria, we never had any erotic shows since it was all public TV channels back then.
There was a very controversial Dutch children’s show in the early 90s called ‘Purno de Purno’. It was computer-animated on an old Amiga 2000, it looked like an LSD trip, and it contained lots of overt sexual and racial jokes and references. If it aired today it would attract endless complaints about its homophobia, racist depictions, inappropriate sexual references, and its vulgarity and obscenity in general.