LOS ANGELES (July 9, 2014) – The Parents Television Council is calling on its members and other concerned
citizens to file indecency complaints to the FCC over a recent episode of CBS’ “Reckless” that contained explicit sexual content.
The TV-14 (SLV)-rated episode aired on June 29, 2014, at 9 pm ET/PT and 8 pm CT/MT and included these scenes: The episode opened with a woman being pulled
over by a police officer and handcuffed to a fence while the officer and the woman had sex. Another scene showed a male attorney watching a video of a
woman who was purportedly drugged and then undressed and sexually assaulted by four men on the hood of a police car. In another scene, the same attorney
and a female attorney watch the same video of the sexual assault together and subsequently talked about how it turned them on.
“We believe these sexually explicit scenes on CBS’ ‘Reckless’ constitute a violation of the broadcast indecency law due to the
patently offensive sexual content airing when children are likely to be in the audience. It is even more troubling that CBS chose to rate the episode as
appropriate for 14-year-old children. This is just the latest example of the strained credibility of the TV content rating system,” said PTC
President Tim Winter.
“CBS must be held accountable for using the publicly owned airwaves to beam to every home in the nation repeated graphic depictions of a woman
ostensibly being sexually assaulted. As such, we are asking members and others concerned about how TV impacts children to file FCC indecency complaints
over this episode.”
FCC indecency complaints can be filed here.