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  • I'm guessing it's because the highest grossing films are now just slop trying to appeal to the widest demographic possible, so if they include sex, the are excluding families from seeing the film.

  • I find myself watching older TV a lot because it's got way less graphic sex and violence. I don't want to see a person get ripped in half and their guts flying everywhere and i don't need to see every actress' boobs. sorry if that makes me a "prude" or whatever but it's way too much for my taste

    • I think some of this comes with age?

      I used to be more willing to watch that stuff 20 years ago, which was almost half my lifetime ago.

      But it's personal choice.

      There were some pretty horrendous stuff on TV, particularly an episode of Law and Order LA where they were dissolving a guy in lye in a bathtub and an episode of Medium where a guy was putting out lit cigarettes on the belly of a dog. I noped right the fuck out of those. These were both years ago at this point but I pretty much refuse to watch cop shows anymore as a result.

      One aspect of sex in media is probably the accessibility of pornography. It's not special anymore to see a butt or a nipple, so it's not driving people to the theaters. When I was a kid the closest thing that I had to a Playboy was the Lane Bryant catalog, so seeing Cindy Crawford's side-boob was pretty awesome, even if I had to endure Alec Baldwin's hairy ass for the privilege.

      The social acceptance of things seem to be like a pendulum rather than a continuous movement too. It's definitely swinging towards the prude at the moment. It will swing back eventually.

  • Funny how the peak of sex in movies was right around the time Tommy Wiseau blessed the world with 3 sex scenes the first 30 minutes of one movie.

    That man has a glorious ass and anyone who got turned off to sex in movies because of it deserves shame

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