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Lots of nudity in film is of a sexual nature. Uncontrolled exposure to fictional depictions of sex could create unhealthy understanding of sex in children that
by goda90 6y ago
Lots of nudity in film is of a sexual nature. Uncontrolled exposure to fictional depictions of sex could create unhealthy understanding of sex in children that parents want to avoid. Hence not family friendly. I'm not saying most in film violence is either, but that's the reason.
One film I think of in this regard is Schindler's List. I've seen both the original and the TV edit that Spielberg made to broadcast for teenagers to see. The primary edits I noticed were sex scenes and post-sex nudity. Those scenes weren't gratuitous(they showed something about the characters) or anything, but were edited(either cut or blacked out part of the frame). BUT there was still lots of nudity in the edited film. This was nudity of a different nature. People forced to strip down and paraded in the open for inspection.
Sometimes parents just want to take the easy path and consider all nudity as out of bounds for their kids. I think that's fine.
- heavenlyblue 6y ago> Sometimes parents just want to take the easy path and consider all nudity as out of bounds for their kids. Sometimes parents consider vaccinations to be out of bounds for their kids, too.
- dirtnugget 6y agoI would generally put Schindlers List onto the "not-so-family-friendly"-list. It’s educational I guess but I wouldn’t want to show it to anyone below 16. And after that the nudity should be fine.
- kube-system 6y agoFWIW, my local secondary school here in the US has no issues showing Schindlers List to students in class. But this attitude isn’t something that would extend to a movie with nudity of a sexual or casual nature.
- dirtnugget 6y agoThey have no issues about showing that because the primary actor of violence was not their own state. Do they show footage of Guantanamo Bay or Abu-Ghuraib in secondary school? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/AbuGhraibScandalGraner55.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/AbuGhrai... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Abu-ghraib-leash.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Abu-ghra...
- dirtnugget 6y agoYeah, downvote me but also, please swallow that pill while you are doing that.