It's safe to say that "watching movies on SBS to be culturally enlightened" is more or less the "I read Playboy for the articles" of the late-20th/early-21st Century. If it's got bonking, sucking, fingering, jizzing, faffing or rutting, so long as it's delivered either a) in another language, b) in an arty manner, or c) all of the above, SBS want to show it to YOU!

Unfortunately, it seems the Australian Communications and Media Authority tuned in the one night when a Japanese schoolgirl wasn't getting made an honest woman by a tentacle monster, and instead chose to check out the rather thoughtful and low-key documentary, Obscene Machines, which aired last year (with a rating of MA15+) - and they have a few things to discuss with SBS at dinner tonight, young man/lady!

The documentary focused on how technology is used to spice up sex lives, including items such as robotic sex machines and vaguely life-like dolls.

ACMA noted two segments that breached broadcasting rules and were unsuitable for screening in the MA15+ category.

One two-and-a-half-minute segment featured close-up shots of a naked woman apparently being penetrated by a mechanical dildo; the other focused on an elderly man's use of a life-like sex doll called Emma, modelled on his 18-year-old ex-wife.

ACMA rejected SBS's argument that a large proportion of the program dealt with the sexual activities of the old and disabled and was informational.

"ACMA considers that the treatment of the subject matter in Obscene Machines is adult in nature and is therefore unsuitable for ordinary 15-year-old audience members," it said in its report.

We also watched Obscene Machines when it screened last year, and the only part we'd vaguely agree with the ACMA on is that the old dude with the barely-legal-looking Real Doll was a bit of a creep.

The rest of it was actually quite wonderful, particularly the stuff about the disabled employing "bot sex" (i.e., with 'robots', not up the back door) to rediscover their sexuality, so it's a shame the ACMA have to get all hot under the collar about this in particular.

People who like to have sexy with Johnny 5 are people too, ACMA!