Well you must have been watching different tv from me. The original Queer As Folk, the UK show, had masses of incredibly graphic gay sex. Rimming, blow jobs, fisting, fucking, twinks, the lot. This was on a mainstream channel (Channel 4) and went out just after the watershed, at 9. This was gay sex. On TV. Graphically…

Free rein. It’s a horse riding metaphor, not a ruling one.