HBO’s Girls “money shot”: Was it the first in TV history?

HBO’s Girls “money shot”: Was it the first in TV history?

"In last night’s dark episode of Girls, Adam (Adam Driver) is shown having sex with his latest girlfriend, Natalia (Shiri Appleby). This alone is hardly extraordinary— the comedy has never shied away from creating graphic and often memorably awkward sex scenes—but this week the comedy crossed a line that most TV shows never dare approach: It included a sort of 'money shot,' in which Adam’s semen is shown on Natalia’s chest. Is this the first time this has been depicted on a television show?

Not quite, but it’s very rare. In 1999, the BBC broadcast its first on-screen ejaculation when it aired a documentary about pornography. The landmark moment didn’t show a penis, but it did depict semen flying through the air in slow motion onto the face of '70s porn star Marilyn Chambers. When it comes to American television, at least a couple of shows have featured shots of bodily fluids in sexual situations, including Sex and the City (in Season 2, when the four leading ladies attend a tantric sex demonstration, and some of the ejaculate lands on Miranda) and Californication (in a brief shot in Season 1 following a threesome)."

Reader comment:

I noticed in your "Othercrap" page that you were talking about the history of jizz being shown on tv. There is one scene you left out from the one season [2007] series "tell me you love me". The couple Palek (Adam Scott) and Carolyn (Sonya Walger) are sitting on the couch and he basically jerks off to completion for her. I don't know whether it is a prosthetic penis and stunt-cum, but it definitely shows the "money shot".