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I was watching The Beastmaster on Prime and commented this to my girlfriend as we watched it. It’s a great movie from the 80s that of course has some sex and n

I was watching The Beastmaster on Prime and commented this to my girlfriend as we watched it. It’s a great movie from the 80s that of course has some sex and nudity. Hollywood is completely terrified of sex and nudity now. It alters people’s brains in ways we don’t understand I think. We still hold what we see on the silver screen as a cultural reference point. There’s nothing dirty or wrong about the human body or sex but if you never see it on the big screen you might start thinking that way.

Waterluvian 5y ago
I had suspected it was the opposite: sex is boring now that it’s more normalized than ever. Once you get a series of BDSM-themed books and a movie that are socially accepted in regular discourse, a sex scene in a movie is just less risqué.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
  I see it as two different things pulling on the human mind in opposite directions, you can find all manner of porn if you try on the internet, yet you never see the "normal" people do it or be nude in a movie anymore. I think this can cause some issues. Even the 50 Shades sex scenes in the movies were bizarrely tame and Puritan. Like if a pre-teen imagined what sex was like but had never really actually done the deed.
mellavora 5y ago
Fortunately we still have lots of violence, death, and torture. Because those are totally ok and normal things to be thinking about. Ug! Sex and love. that stuff is just too dangerous to let into the public imagination.
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- rajin444 5y ago
  I don't think it's repressed because it's dangerous or immoral. Constant casual sex devalues a monogamous relationship. Many in our culture still place a lot of value on a monogamous relationship, so you see it reflected in media. I'm not religious and do not care at all about how other's live their lives. But I see value in a monogamous relationship, and see attitudes toward casual sex as a decent indicator in helping me select a partner with the same values. This is not a moral judgement by any means. This is also not saying a monogamous relationship is better or worse.
  - quantified 5y ago
    Sex depicted in movies needn’t be casual or promiscuous. Not sure how those got brought in here.

Waterluvian 5y ago

I had suspected it was the opposite: sex is boring now that it’s more normalized than ever. Once you get a series of BDSM-themed books and a movie that are socially accepted in regular discourse, a sex scene in a movie is just less risqué.

JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
I see it as two different things pulling on the human mind in opposite directions, you can find all manner of porn if you try on the internet, yet you never see the "normal" people do it or be nude in a movie anymore. I think this can cause some issues. Even the 50 Shades sex scenes in the movies were bizarrely tame and Puritan. Like if a pre-teen imagined what sex was like but had never really actually done the deed.

mellavora 5y ago

Fortunately we still have lots of violence, death, and torture. Because those are totally ok and normal things to be thinking about. Ug! Sex and love. that stuff is just too dangerous to let into the public imagination.

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rajin444 5y ago
I don't think it's repressed because it's dangerous or immoral. Constant casual sex devalues a monogamous relationship. Many in our culture still place a lot of value on a monogamous relationship, so you see it reflected in media. I'm not religious and do not care at all about how other's live their lives. But I see value in a monogamous relationship, and see attitudes toward casual sex as a decent indicator in helping me select a partner with the same values. This is not a moral judgement by any means. This is also not saying a monogamous relationship is better or worse.
- quantified 5y ago
  Sex depicted in movies needn’t be casual or promiscuous. Not sure how those got brought in here.