The Australian actor claims she has broken new ground, in BBC One’s drama Wanderlust. But what about Joely Richardson in Lady Chatterley? Then there’s BBC Two …
Toni Collette has had what she believes to be BBC One’s first on-screen female orgasm, in Wanderlust, the channel’s steamy new drama about a married couple which embarks on “seeing” other people – questioning whether monogamy is “possible or even desirable”. Is this claim actually true? Could we have reached 2018 before a woman had an orgasm in public service broadcasting?
Obviously not: if Tipping the Velvet hadn’t reached any climaxes, it would have defeated its own object. Line of Beauty had an audible orgasm that nobody (not even Alan Hollinghurst, author of the book from which it was adapted) could tell whether or not was fake, but those were on BBC Two, which has a different sexual code to its sister channel. Much like BBC Three’s never articulated code that goes something along the lines of, “We could run Fleabag and you couldn’t because a chaotic female with sexual agency could only make it past your lot if she ended up dead.” There was an astonishing female orgasm on BBC Two as early as 1983, in the Cleopatras (roughly 23 mins into episode one).
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