This reminds me of some time during the early 1990s, when I had a television with a special device to help me "hear" it (no, not that damned closed captioning). I didn't use it much, maybe about a couple of hours or so a month, and ultimately discarded it.
I was playing "Strategic Conquest" on a Macintosh, and decided to see what was up, on the boob tube.
I had it on public television, and there was a special show about gays who'd lost their "partners" to AIDS.
Initially, I didn't pay much attention, but as the show went on and on, all these sad-faced guys yip-yapping to the camera, I suddenly started paying more attention, and was completely engrossed by the time the show ended.
All they talked about was the inconvenience of living without someone sexually valuable to them.
Nothing else.