It has no draw because we all have 24hr access to porn to the extent having it in a film is like having people take shits in film, like, yeah we all do this, but it's mostly gross so, no thanks.
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Because the world shifted to the right a bunch more regarding sexual content… fucking websites now want you to show your ID in some states to view porn.
I think acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven put it best when he called our country a land full of gleefully violent prudes when people freaked out about his use of sexuality, nudity and people being comfortable naked around members of the opposite sex.
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It's kind of a bummer as it's nice to have a more artistic representation of sex outside of porn which is more of a commodity. Movies can connect the sexy scenes to the non-sexy scenes which potentially makes them more powerful. Also, movies can tie moral value to sex which is interesting to explore.
I am in favor of sex in movies making a comeback, as long as it doesn't create problems for the actors.
I think a lot of times the scenes are still done heavily through a male gaze. You'll see more frontal of her than you ever will of a man.
Sex in movies always felt awkward because usually it's a plot device to push the male character's story, a 'reward' for the male character... Or just one of many sexual assault scenes bestowed on nearly every female character ever because "DRAMA."
Not all sex scenes are like this, but a LOT of sex scenes are like this.
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I just find it hard to believe that more films have drugs than profanity.
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And of course violence is way too high, damn puritans!
Wish it was more sex and less violence
I remember a bunch of years ago talking about This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and how I thought it was absurd a scene where someone's brains get shot out and they die is ok, but a non-graphic cunnilingus shot was unacceptable. The two people I was talking to, a woman older than me and someone my age, were both like "No that makes total sense. I'd watch a violent movie with my kid but not one with sex in it"
I was like, "You'd rather your kid run around fantasizing about murder than sex?" And they were like "yeah"
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We are all here because of sex. I think it's outrageous that violence is glorified when there isn't a single person here not made from sex. Ok maybe a few but it's a really small percentage.
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https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
Not just sex but the sexual tension/chemistry or whatever you wanna call it.
One example is Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in Spider-man trilogy vs Tom Holland and Zendaya in MCU movies. The former couple dated briefly but broke up before the production of second movie. Second one's are dating for almost 5 years (officially). Yet the Raimi movies have this chemistry that MCU movies lack. The relationship feels like checklist.
Another is Eva Green vs Lea Seydoux in Bond movies.
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I noticed this as well. I don't really care either way, just that it was noticeable. The other part I noticed is that if there is nudity, I feel like it's a way higher percentage that it's a male. I'm not going to lie if I had to choose I would rather see the other sex, but I understand we had way too long of a time with it being a one-way street.
i think it was prevalent before the interwebs because there was largely few places to get porn, and throwing it in a movie meant more eyeballs.
as porn became immediately available in other forms (mostly the internet), the unnecessary scenes could be eliminated as a waste of time and a detraction from plots. they ceased being a reason to draw eyeballs.
Bingo. This is 100% the reason, and it’s funny that people assume anything else. When you can just watch porn at any time with no effort, sex scenes are gratuitous and awkward distractions except in rare circumstances.
You telling me this wasn't relevant to the plot?
What's this?
Scary Movie
This is the first one.
What's scary movie 2 got up its sleeve.
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Because it's been done so many times and it's mostly just cheesy stuff. There's really no new way to show people having sex in movies/shows.
Sex in movies peaked in Team America. You know the one.
Exactly! I think this graph deserves a special line for puppet sex.
Interesting, I thought I noticed this trend but never saw it quantified. I guess the public sentiment changed around '05 about sex in movies. Might be they just get it from pornhub now instead.
I wanna see this extended back to at least 1980, which was around the peak for nudity and sex scenes in film; after porn was legalized but before internet porn.
The movie that made me want to avoid all sex scenes in movies was Watchmen. Between the completely unnecessary scene and the song that played but just tainted the whole movie.
I saw unnecessary violence in a movie and now I never want to see violence again.
It wasn't just unnecessary it was bad. Did you see it?
No
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Go drugs! You got this!
Good. I watch movies to be absorbed by the story, not to see tits.
Fast Forward has been a thing since like....the 80s
Let me just go harass the theater workers to do that.
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It basically moved to TV instead. Wonder how that statistic compares if they're counted together.