Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, UCLA Study Finds
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Teens prefer movies and shows about friendship and don't feel that entertainment needs so much sex, according to a UCLA report.
  • JoMiran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    16 days ago

    To be fair, studios shoehorn sex and romance into movies, often to the detriment of the story.

    • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      16 days ago

      And when they don’t, the fandoms are happy to forcefully invent a romantic relationship between basically any two characters.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    16 days ago

    I’ve always hated it. If I want to watch sex scenes I’ll just watch porn and not some softcore Hollywood garbage. It adds nothing to the movie/show. Just makes it awkward when you watch it with your kids or parents.

    • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 days ago

      Honestly, it makes sense to me that the generations that grew up with the internet and basically limitless access to porn would be less interested in gratuitous sex in the rest of their media. They don’t know what it’s like to rewind three seconds of a tape over and over because of a single out of focus boob, or making do with the lingerie section of the sears catalog. They don’t have that any port in a storm mindset.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    61·
    16 days ago

    If it makes sense in the story, that’s alright, but don’t do it because you have two hot actors you want to watch pretend smash just because they’re hot.

  • gjoel@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    In the 80’ies and 90’ies there was a mandatory sex scene in any action movie. I feel those kinda went away in the aughts. Now that we need at leas one major gay or bi or trans character in everything we have at least one scene of someone kissing someone of their own gender, often followed by cuddling.

    So not only did they bring back sex or at least a big focus on people making out, but they’re doing it at a time when TVs have grown a LOT! Filling the frame with a kiss was sort of ok on a 24" screen, but having my 77" TV portray lips on lips, corner to corner is just not something I need for every single piece of modern media I’m trying to enjoy!

  • criitz@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    I won’t necessarily miss them, but I’ve rarely felt like a sex scene really took away from a movie like so many people say. Yes, I like to see hot actors get naked and have sexy times.

    • Themadbeagle@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      15 days ago

      To me, what I feel like they take away is valuable screentime. This opnion does hinge upon the fact that I feel most sex scenes are superfluous and don’t add anything to the movie they are in. To be honest, these seems to be further backed by the fact quite a few sex scenes are done at the behest of sudio executives and not directors, because they know sex sells, at least with older generations. I feel like a lot of younger people recognize this and don’t really care for a sex scene for the sake of itself.

      This is all not to say I think there shouldn’t be sex movies. I do think it can be part of the plot and add to the narrative, I just don’t think that is always why we get one.