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    1 year ago

    Let’s face it, it’s because the housing market is destroyed so they have to live with their parents 😂

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    I love watching porn, i really do.

    But when i’m watching a movie/tv show, i wanna get some actual plot, you know?

    I’m not against the presence of nudity/sex scenes in media. But i’m tired of seeing people on the screen copulating just for the sake of it (again, unless it’s porn).

    I know that there are people who do have casual sex often (it’s kind of a cultural thing), but for a lot of us that’s just isn how it goes (or at least not in our current situation).

    My point is, i want to see good writing, that does not have to force sex in order to be interesting or have high ratings.

    Unfortunately, it seems the more tech we have, the less time and money do the big companies want to invest on making a good product.

    Thus, support independent film makers!!

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      1 year ago

      this is the truth. gen z is not “puritanical” we just don’t like boring cookie cutter shit.

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    !The concept of sex in movies already reached its peak with Porky’s, and any attempts to improve on that are just embarrassing.!<

    Never change Onion. 😄

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    Sex is unrealistic. It was created by Walt Disney in the 1930s to make Donald Duck seem interesting, but nobody actually does it.

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    Look, I’m just some boring ace girl who happily lives with her ace girlfriend in our sex less lives. And sure we can appreciate a tasteful sex scene if it serves the plot.

    But GAWD, so much media is horny on main.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I’ve been thinking too. I don’t have anything against them including nudity but the way they do it is as if they think they’re blowing your mind

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        I’m just tired of it being “nudity” but it’s just really gratuitous amounts of boobs and a .00005 second snippet of blurred and backlit man ass. Boobs are good and all, but like I’m tired of it just being an excuse to have naked women thrown into scenes that just… probably don’t need to be there? Shout-out to GOT for giving full frontal male nudity before the show went to shit.

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          I have found the opposite lately. Many newer movies shoehorn in a lot of male nudity and minimize naked women. Latest example I can think of was “A Million Little Pieces” I saw the other day. The flaccid practically helicopter scene towards the beginning came out of nowhere and I laughed, and then the shower scene has 2 full frontal men which actually did nothing for the plot. I just checked IMDB to see if I forgot about any nudity from women, but it says there wasn’t any.

          I REALLY thought the shower scene was going to have a plot serving reason… at the end of the movie it is almost as if the writers forgot it happened.

          https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0427543/parentalguide/nudity

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            Mr. and Mrs. Smith [Brad and Angelina] is the last movie I can recall that actually turned up the heat. Body Heat with Kathleen Turner is the all time champion, imho.

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      Sex scenes in tv and movies and sex scenes in porn aren’t really comparable imo

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        I watch a wide variety of movies, but the number of movies I see where the characters are supposed to be in high school and have sexual acts in them is wayyy to high. 28 year old actor playing a 17 year old, I just feel gross when those parts come up.

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    1 year ago

    “It makes my AI girlfriend uncomfortable.”

    Haha, The Onion is killing it, like always.

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      For real. This one got me the best:

      “We held a meeting and decided being radically open about gender while adopting a puritanical outlook on sex was the best way to shock Boomers to death.”

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    Real reason: They all still live at home, have to watch with their parents, and will do until their parents die of old age.

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    1 year ago

    Removing the /j, a lot of modern media really does push on that sex drive.

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      The amount of the population that is truly asexual is insanely low, and sex is biologically intended to arouse (in all senses of the word). Gotta reach the widest audience possible, and excite them when reached

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        I think if the sex scenes were done well, that’d be one thing (still wouldn’t interest me, but I can see how they’d speak to others), but most of it is so bad. I finally watched Bridgerton a couple weeks ago and I can’t figure out why people were so horny for 30 seconds of some dude jackhammering away in the missionary position. Like why is it even necessary to show that mediocrity? Just skip it and add a little more plot.

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        While appealing to something lost people are interested in logical, the main reason I am fine with sex being less frequent in media is because it is often done so terribly as producer forced love interest crap that distracts from the media. Keep the good stuff, but drop all the bad ones.

        Am gen X, disliked crappy and unnecessary sex scenes while enjoying good ones since before it was cool.

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      I don’t know what media you’re watching, but I can’t recall much of any in the past few years. Then again, I don’t watch every single movie that comes out.

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      1 year ago

      Why remove the jizz?

      But, again removing the j/, i wholeheartedly agree, with one exception: if it’s done like sam & emma in genV.

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        God that whole universe got so lame with the dicks everywhere. Like it was funny the first couple times in Boys but then they just kept beating that dead horse like the screaming goats in the last Thor movie.

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          i have to admit, i haven’t watched The Boys yet ( soon ) and but i didn’t see a dick in genV yet - aaaaahhh, you mean that fake dick emma was hanging on in the first or second episode? Ok, yes, there was also the exploding one. Tbh these 2 were pretty funny imo and also intended as a joke.

          When sam & emma have sex, it was really them just having sex - at least for me, it succeeded to show how deep these two connected and how much they care for each other.

          But from what i heard, The Boys really has much more intense sex scenes, intended to make you uncomfortable from the get go.