Earlier this summer, HBO quietly removed erotic adult movies and TV shows from its channels and streaming services. The adult feature films are gone as well. Viewers who want sexually explicit video content no longer have to subscribe to a premium cable TV service as previous generations did. The internet has made adult content widely available to anyone with a broadband connection.
HBO has not produced new episodes of its adult series in recent years, although previous seasons were still getting late-night runs on its channels and were offered on demand to streaming video customers who subscribed to HBO Go.
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