"Well I can tell you there was no sex in Ireland before television, and we won't be bound with this ropey smut now!"
That's because "Irish people more likely to have sex when drunk" as reported by The Irish Daily Star. And we know Irish people been gettin' drunk long before the invention of television! And the Irish obviously invented beer goggles:
"The results found a link between blood alcohol content and attractiveness rating. As drunkenness increased, so did the attractiveness of the people in the pictures — for men and women."
http://www.thestar.ie/star/irish-people-more-likely-to-have-sex-when-drunk-46938/