the study's age range was 10-24.
Article isnt even about video games
As long as there is remembrance of Stalin before the sexual act, its fine
Finally someone with a decent take smdh
"People still living at home with their parents want movies to have less sex scenes" according to BigSurpriseMagasine
yeah it was always awkward as fuck growing up enjoying a good fast-paced flick with the fam and then suddenly there's just two minutes of darkness, lotioned skin, whispery plosives, breathy vowels, and macaroni mixing sounds, all with the mic volume WAY THE FUCK UP versus other scenes where you can't even hear people talk under the soundtrack. And then everyone has to sit there and act like it isn't happening, or race to be the first one to get up and go pee, and this was back before everyone had smartphones to distract themselves with.
its going to stay that way for most due to how astronomically high housing is in this shit country
Sex scenes in games and movies are just always awkward. I can't think of a time when it's actually added to the narrative. Just makes it uncomfortable to watch with other people.
Seems like a tool to look more “adult”
Kinda like a middle schooler who thinks saying “fuck” every other word makes them cool
I can't think of a time when it's actually added to the narrative
watch a decently made movie then. citing people failing to successfully use a creative tool as a reason it shouldn't exist is ridiculous
american psycho spoilers
I think the sex scenes (and also Bateman just doing stuff with the TV playing porn in the background) make the audience understand how utterly fucked he is. They make it explicit that (a) he desires to be seen as someone who's hot and enjoying sex and whatever, e.g. when he looks at himself flexing in the mirror and how he films everything (b) what he gets off on is absolute domination over women, through sex or torture or murder. Same thing for him. The viewer is supposed to realize that Bateman's aberrant sexual desires, being as unremarkable to the rest of his society as his murders, are actually something society expects / encourages. I don't think you could do this nearly as well without showing it.
You could argue that these aren't "sex scenes" in the connotative way that prudes use it, since they're ghastly and not titillating. For my part I think that people having sex is a sex scene.
We need to return to Paul Verhoeven where the movie is an excuse to show 10 sex scenes but also antifascist
Paul Verhoeven movies are exactly the kind of art the scolds in this thread hate. They would never allow Showgirls to be made if they were in charge
I had a discussion with somebody on this site and they claimed that leftists should never create satire because Starship Troopers was satire and fascists mis-interpreted it.
That's literally what the lanyard dork media class said when they gave Starship Troopers negative reviews on its release, before it became a cult classic. That it was praising fascist ideology despite it being clearly satirical.
Media literacy, and literacy in general, is going down the toilet. TV was a mistake. The internet was a mistake. Smartphones were a mistake.
I want more casual sex in media, but less sexualization of everything.
obviously there are many movies with pointless sex scenes that should have been cut or changef, but also some movies would work significantly less well without them
a lot of people have sex, and for many it's a big part of life and their relationships. anything that important irl should be represented in art
i think people are more interested in seeing, you know, actual functioning and real relationships. not bullshit. sex is a very small part of any real relationship
But sex scenes are a very small part of media. Unless you’re game of thrones and it’s thrown in your face every 5 seconds because the producers are so perverted they made the actresses refuse to be nude in future seasons.
But the point is that people freak out about sex are usually more annoying than the ones who get horny over a 5 second flash of a boob on screen
the volcel meme was always weird. like as someone with 20 something years of women experience it makes me deeply uncomfortable when i meet people like this irl. they almost always sexualize my body without my consent. i know most hexbears aren't doing it for creepy or misogynistic reasons but its still super uncomfortable. like its fine online as a meme but if i heard this irl im getting away from that person as quickly as possible. also 10-24 is quite young most of these kids will hopefully grow out of this. EDIT i am an old user i fully understand the site culture i was a minor when all the gross shit was happening in reddit.
I want to see actual penetration in films. Bring back squibs and have all the avengers fuck each other
They should poll 6 year olds and ask them if they find kissing on screen to be nasty and icky
the american zoomers are so progressive they're reinventing the hays code lmao
I don't think all physical intimacy should be wiped from media. I don't think we should act like breasts should be shielded at all costs because it makes people feel awkward due to being raised in a society that makes breasts naughty.
I think there's room for nude scenes and physical intimacy in movies, but the way its done sucks. Like you don't need to show the penetration, but a short sex scene and a segue to a couple cuddling and the occasional nip popping out is just real life.
When I was a kid my grandma took me to see the dukes of hazard movie. There's a scene where the duke boys are running through a dorm to get away from the sheriff and they run into a room of a bunch of college girls doing a topless pillow fight. My grandma didn't cover my eyes and gasp, she started cracking up because it was funny and silly and they're just breasts at the end of the day. I watched plenty of movies with my parents with a random nude scene and sure it was a little awkward but we laughed it off and if it was egregiously long we'd fast forward.
I understand people being tired of shitty hollywood sex scenes, but I don't think its good enough reason to do a 180 and never see a stray nip in a movie ever again. That just feels like a marvel capeshit attitude.
I’ll be okay with sex scenes in media when it’s well intentioned and comes from a place that isn’t saturated by western ideals of misogyny and body shaming. Not to mention the rampant sexual abuse and misogyny present in Hollywood.
Shit like Geralt seeing how many women he can bang for cool cards is objectifying af. Shit like bond banging the main woman of the movie every movie is objectifying af. Making the next bond a woman will not change that.
Also on a personal note I have misophonia and the sound of kissing is a big trigger.
The lower part of the age range probably isnt even in puberty yet. Some people dont experience sexual attraction until their mid teens (if at all), so of course it feels a bit gross.
this just in: 50% of people polled* believe girls are "growdy" and "have cooties"
*Boys aged 6-12
Nah tbh I support them. Nothing worse* than being really invested in a movie then they throw in a gratuitous sex scene that doesn’t move the plot forward at all and messes up the whole flow of the movie. Been saying it for years, not every movie needs a love story and a big sex scene
*hyperbole, there are absolutely worse things than this
47.5% of young people say that sex isn’t necessary for the plot of most TV shows and movies
10-24 is a pretty wide ass range for this. Curious if tweens, early teens, late teens, and early 20s differ in any major way. Honestly they should've just polled adults only from every generation, who cares what 12 year olds think
i don't care because i don't watch movies but if you're going to show me two people steaming it up unprompted they better not be heterosexuals
Agree from me. Why does every single show have to have at least one graphic R scene? Videogame sex scenes are silly to me because it's like making action figures take off their clothes and mash them together
Definitely approve of less sex scenes in videogames (every videogame character I play becomes an asexual, because I have no interest in getting my videogame-man to videogame-plow the videogame-woman -- I'm just here for the combos, folks), and I would like a moratorium on depiction of sexual violence in basically all media until directors at least figure out not to shoot it like fetish porn.
As a strange personal anecdote (which may just be me snitching on myself really hard, but whatever) I've been in the room with people as they just casually watched hardcore pornography (which I still find baffling -- that there are people who will just, like, watch porn with their friend-group), and somehow that was less awkward than watching a movie with those same friends that had an unexpected sex scene. I'm genuinely not sure what to make of that.
"Sex is boring unless you're doing it."
-Ridley Scott
No hate to people with a consensual voyeur fetish and all but like...I would say the majority of sex scenes in mainstream films are entirely gratuitous. There are absolutely examples of sex scenes where I think they add to the characterization or story and removing them changes things (off the top of my head: American Psycho, and A History of Violence), but if you're putting sex in the movie because "OOOOH BOOBIES"....yeah...I grew up with internet porn. Its not all that exciting.
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