Sex & The City was known for pushing boundaries in its day, and introducing the world to such radical concepts as funky-tasting spunk and vagina weights, but in the early days, there was one scene so extreme that HBO straight-up refused to air it.
In an interview with Vanity Fair to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the show, creator Darren Starr revealed that the scene in question took place in the first season, and involved Kristin Davis‘ character Charlotte York.
Though the series was fond of putting the uptight Charlotte in gross-out situations, this particular scenario, which involved a man who was very fond of getting blowjobs, proved a bit too much for HBO. As Starr explained:
“He basically was always pushing her head down to give him oral sex. And he had this golden retriever who was always around. She basically let him have it about being offended by his insistence on just wanting a blow job. She accused him of only liking her for that and kind of stormed out. And then she walked back in and saw that his golden retriever was going down on him.”
Yikes. It gets worse, though, as writer Amy B. Harris told the publication that the scene in question actually made it on to film:
“It’s sort of horrifying that we shot that. We shot him putting peanut butter on his penis, and Charlotte walks back in like, ‘Oh, I’m being unreasonable,’ and then she sees that … I can’t believe we even thought about doing it.”
Thinking back on it, the Sex & The City writers were weirdly fond of dog-based gags – there was the time Charlotte’s Jack Russell Henry pooped all over her apartment, and then the time her King Charles Spaniel Elizabeth Taylor got into a gang-bang at the dog park.
That said, it may be better that this one ended up on the cutting room floor.
