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Yes, when growing up watching Hollywood movies my parents always joked that showing a naked body was not done, but insane aggression (eg beheadings / limbs fall
by stingraycharles 4y ago
Yes, when growing up watching Hollywood movies my parents always joked that showing a naked body was not done, but insane aggression (eg beheadings / limbs falling off / etc) was perfectly fine. I think that was while watching Total Recall somewhere in the 90s.
- lurquer 4y agoPerhaps both types of images ought be prohibited. Perhaps neither. But, it’s worth realizing the two categories are different, and they are regulated differently (either legally or socially) for good reasons. Sexual images have a propensity to make you horny. Violent images do not have propensity to make you violent. At least not as acutely.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> showing a naked body was not done, but insane aggression was perfectly fine. [1] is a decent documentary about the weird and inconsistent standards applied by the MPAA. But yeah, violence is fine, man-focused sex is passable, woman-focused sex is bad, homosexual sex is RIGHT OUT, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated
- nayuki 4y agoThese days in media, in America violence is acceptable but sex is bad, in Japan violence is bad but sex is acceptable.
- wizofaus 4y agoUm, there are a lot more (often gratuitous) sex scenes in US-made TV/ movies than Japanese ones, from what I've observed. And while there's generally far less glorified violence, you only need to watch something like Alice in Borderland to see some pretty explicitly violent stuff.
- AndrewOMartin 4y agoTotal Recall has some legendary (simulated, iirc) nudity. As an aside, it turns out my phone dictionary does not contain the word "nudity".