topless radio

noun

A radio talk show format, popular in the 1970s, focusing on intimate sexual discussion with callers.

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Meanings

nountopless radio (uncountable)
  1. dateduncountablebroadcastingA radio talk show format, popular in the 1970s, focusing on intimate sexual discussion with callers.

    Similar to much of today's “adult talk” radio and TV, topless radio was a format in which audience members called in to discuss graphically sexual issues with hosts who tried to titillate the audience by teasing every explicit detail out of a caller.

    2004, Christopher H. Sterling, editor, Encyclopedia of Radio, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2326
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