They've moved to TV shows... Hard to watch any (American) Netflix series without an unnecessary sex scene every 6-8 minutes.
Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?
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#12Increasingly in Hollywood, the creative assets for movies are being produced before the scripts are even written. So e.g. for a movie that they know will have a fight scene, they just go in and capture a bunch of different sequences with different outcomes. Anyway it could be kind of weird to have the same done with sex scenes.
That’s fascinating. Can you share some more information about this process, where filming happens before the script is done?
It seems to be that there might be a parallel with software dev practices, ie waterfall model (write script, shoot script, edit film) and a more lean/agile model (writing, shooting and editing in whatever order it takes to build up the film)
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#13Anyone know why piholes default config has this site on the deny list?
My PiHole doesn’t block this site and I didn’t fiddle much with the config
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#14I was watching The Beastmaster on Prime and commented this to my girlfriend as we watched it. It’s a great movie from the 80s that of course has some sex and nudity. Hollywood is completely terrified of sex and nudity now. It alters people’s brains in ways we don’t understand I think. We still hold what we see on the silver screen as a cultural reference point. There’s nothing dirty or wrong about the human body or sex but if you never see it on the big screen you might start thinking that way.
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#15Increasingly in Hollywood, the creative assets for movies are being produced before the scripts are even written. So e.g. for a movie that they know will have a fight scene, they just go in and capture a bunch of different sequences with different outcomes. Anyway it could be kind of weird to have the same done with sex scenes.
I would also love to hear more about this. I have plenty of friends and colleagues who work in film and TV and I've never heard of this.
Can you share any links?
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#16Related article: "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny: Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it."
Link: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
Discussion (674 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381377
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#17This article is just a bunch of anecdata. Has the proportion of theatrical releases containing sex scenes indeed declined in recent years? What about streaming releases? Neither of these questions is quantitatively answered. The “evidence” that sex scenes have become taboo because they embody the “male gaze” and are therefore problematic comes from some un-cited hypothetical tweet. Assuming this tweet is even real, is it actually reflective of the majority opinion, or just a Twitter echochamber? Again, the author does not even attempt to answer this question.
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#18One answer to this is "Bridgerton"; see also Game of Thrones. Sex certainly hasn't vanished frim media in general, or even HBO.
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#19Dumbed down to superhero-movie plateau, PG rating for families, publishing in the PRC. Money.
Where did you get that idea? The proportion of films rated R and also PG-13 has been steady over the past 15 years. The proportion of films rated PG has increased, but at the expense of G. https://m.the-numbers.com/market/mpaa-ratings
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#20There's actually one really interesting point in here: Zoomers are incredibly "puritanical" and anti-sex. It seems extremely weird that one of the most liberal generations ever is so sex negative.