TV SSL Reviews! - A Master List of TV Shows Rated on Depictions/Discussions of Female Orgasm and/or Female Masturbation
This is the TV section of the SSL Reviews. If you'd like to check out the Movie SSL Reviews, go HERE.
To give a little background, an SSL Review is a critique specifically about a discussion or depiction of female orgasm, masturbation, the clit, or cunnilingus in media. I am particularly interested in the realism (for instance: was the physical thing happening during the orgasm something that actually could cause orgasm in a woman?). I also often discuss how the depiction/discussion reflects our cultural understanding and also what it adds to the larger conversation about female orgasm and female sexuality. In the end, though, I say whatever I want to say because this is my blog, but I do try to stick close to those guidelines.
(above: Old-timey vibrations in Mad Men)
I have categorized the review links by TV series from A to Z and added their vulva ratings [a 0 to 5 vulva (!)(!)(!)(!)(!) scale] when available. Please note that I have not always given TV show reviews vulva ratings, so I have estimated on some earlier ones. Also, there is no standardized scale for the vulva ratings, as you will clearly see. As always, please tip me off to anything you'd like to see SSL Reviewed!
Below you will see notations that will help clarify some things:
(F) - Season fully SSL Reviewed (all scenes that could be SSL Reviewed were)
(FF) - Series fully SSL Reviewed (all scenes that could be SSL Reviewed were)
(E) - Very early writing from the blog
(*) - Estimated vulva rating because it was before I was vulva rating TV consistently
THE TV SSL REVIEWS!!!!!!!!
The Americans
Season 1 (F) Episode 13 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 2 and 3 (F) S2 Episode 1 S3 Episode 13 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 4 (F) Episodes 5 and 9 (!)(!)(!)(!
Archer
General thoughts about sexy vs. sexual balance among genders
Season 6 Episodes 9-10 (!)(!)
Big Little Lies
Season 1 (F) Episodes 2-3 (!)(!)
Black-ish
Season 3 (F) Episode 18 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
BoJack Horseman
Season 1 Episodes 1-4 (!)(!)
Broad City
Season 1
Episodes 1-4 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!
Season 2
Episode 1 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 8 (part 1) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 9 (!)(!)(!)(!
Season 3
Episodes 1- 2 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episodes 8-9 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Season 4 Episode 16 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Chewing Gum
Season 1 (F)
Episode 1 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 4 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 2
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)
Episode 5 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Season 1
Episode 2 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 4 & 8 (!)(!)(!)(!
Season 2 (F)
Episodes 2, 4, 6 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
The Deuce
Season 1 Episode 1(!)(!)
Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23
Season 1 (F)
Episodes 1 and 8 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 2 (F)
Episode "Paris" (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Empire
Season 1 (F)
Episode 8 (!)
Season 2 (F)
Episode 10 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 3
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Firefly Lane
Season 1 (!)
Season 2 ZERO VULVAS
Flesh and Bone
Season 1 (F)
Episode 1 (!)(!)
Episodes 5-8 (!)(!)(!)(!
Future Man
Season 1 Episode 3 (!)(!)
Game of Thrones
Season 3 Episodes 5-7 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Girls
Whole Series
Series Overview SSL Review (no vuvla rating - too complicated)
The Cunnilingus Scenes (!)(!)
Season 1 Episode 2 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Glee (FF)
Season 2 Episode 15 (*) (!)
Season 3 Episode 5 (*) ZERO VULVAS
The Good Place
Seasons 1 and 2 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Gossip Girl (FF)
Season 2 Episode 8 (*) (!)(!)(!)(!)
House of Cards
Season 1 (F)
Episode 1 (*) ZERO VULVAS
Episodes 7 & 9 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Season 4 (F)
Episode 7 (!)(!)
Season 5 (F)
Episode 4 (!)(!)(!
Hung
Insecure
Season 2
Episode 1 (!)(!)
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 4 (!)(!)
Episode 6 (!)(!)(!)
Episode 7 (!)(!)
Inside Amy Schumer
Season 1
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 4(!)(!)(!)(!)(!
Episode 5 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 8 (!)(!)(!)(!
Season 2
Episode 1 (!)(!)(!)
Episode 2 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 3: (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 5: (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 7: (!)(!)(!)
Season 3
Episode 5: (!)(!)(!)(!)(!
Bridget Everett on last part of Episode 10 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Jane The Virgin
Season 3
Episode 3: (!)(!)(!)(!)
Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Seasons 1-6 (F) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Season 2
Episode 25 (Sex Ed in America) (*): (!)
Love
Season 1 (F)
Entire Season (!)
Mad Men (FF)
Season 1 (F)
Episode 11 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Master of None
Season 2 (F)
Episode 6 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Masters of Sex
General thoughts on first episode
The Mindy Project
Season 4
Episode 19 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!
Mozart in the Jungle
Seasons 1 & 2 (!)(!)
Mr. Robot
Season 2 (!)(!)(!
New Girl
Season 2
Episode 9 ZERO VULVAS
The Night Of (FF)
Season 1 (!)(!)(!)
PEN15
Season 1
Episode 3 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Ramy
Seasons 1-2 (!)(!)(!)
Reign
General props for a masturbation scene
Seinfeld
Season 4
Episode 21 "The Junior Mint" (!)(!)(!
Season 5
Episode 1 "The Mango" ZERO VULVAS
Sex And The City (retro SSL reviews - notes only, no vulva rating)
Season 1
Episodes 1-2
Episodes 3-7
Episodes 8-9
Season 2
Episodes 1-3
Episode 4
Episodes 5-6
Episode 7-12
Season 3
Episodes 1-3
Episodes 4-6
Episodes 7-9
Episodes 10-12
Season 4
Episodes 1-4
Episodes 5-6
Episodes 7-9
Episode 10
Episodes 13-18
Season 5
Episodes 1-5
Seasons 6
Episode 1-4
Episodes 5-8
Episodes 9-12
Seasons 6 Part 2
Episodes 1-8
Shameless
Seasons 1- 9 [overview not detailed] (!)
Saturday Night Live
Season 41
Episode 5 (First Got Horny 2U) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 11 (Penis Rap At the Club) (!)
Season 48
Episode 5 (The Watcher) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
Season 1
Episode 5 (!)(!)(!)
The Tonight Show
June 11, 1982 with Dr. Ruth Westheimer
True Detective
Season 1 (F)
Episodes 3&6: (!)
Wanderlust
Season 1
Episode 1 (!)(!)(!)(!)
Episode 1 (2nd part) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!
Episode 2 (!)(!)
West World
Season 1 (F)
Episode 2 (!)
Wilfred
Season 1
Episodes (1-8) ZERO VULVAS
Workaholics
Season 7
Episode 4: (!)(!)(!
The Young Pope
Season 1 (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)