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Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
(www.latimes.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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What a load of elitist bullshit. Being progressive does not mean one likes watching random people having sex, especially if it doesn't fit the tone of the move/show and especially especially if it's horribly directed, as they usually are.
whoole lotta projection going on here
i want rub dik I go pornhub i want story i go movie
It is rarely ever portrayed as anything deeper or meaningful in current media.
I grew up during the time when sex scenes on HBO and Cinemax were the closest thing to porn on tv. I can't think of a worse sex scene than The Specialist, with Sly Stallone. It was silly and unnecessary. I even found it weird as a teen. That says a lot. There were many scenes like this in many films.
You can include sex without dramatizing / showcasing it. I don't blame young people for finding these old tropes to be a digression. See my other comment about sex in The Sopranos to confirm that I'm not anti-sex in media.
It's far lamer to shoehorn in a long sex scene that doesn't make sense. See sex in Sopranos, as I mentioned. It's not overdone. It happens and we move on.
I guess you didn't watch a lot of mainstream movies on HBO in the 90s. They were gratuitous at the time.
You're right, but you're missing the forrest for the trees. Deliberately, I think.
Your comment is typical of a subset of progressives that have no acceptance for people who do not share the same values as them. Dare I say, that is not very progressive of you? What is wrong with having "puritanical conservative values" when it comes to relationships? Must one forcibly engage in orgies with strangers to be a "proper" progressive?
Fuck that noise, I just don't think we need smooching, sex and all that shit in every goddamn movie. Shit's not needed, breaks the flow and is basically there only because everyone else does that. Fuck that noise. And no, these scenes do fuck all in most movies to fleshing out character, quite often they actually make it more shallow by being either uncharacteristic or feeling shoed in, dammit.
And if anything, from what I see around people are hella more open about sex. Thanks to overabundance of porn and all, sex became normalized. At least a lot more than when I was a child.
Oh, do you find it disgusting? Because I don't - I find it unnecessary, as said before.
Sex, showing feelings and care are normal - doesn't mean I need it in every goddamn movie.