• Jeffool @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This chart makes me wonder about cigarette smoking specifically. It feels like if you looked back 40 years it would be a “U”.

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Is the spike in the early 2000’s from the cinematic masterpiece The Room? Three sex scenes in the span of like 15 minutes, ooh la la.

    Seriously though, as much of a horndog I can be, I like the decline of random sex scenes in movies. Very rarely added anything to the story for me. I’m not a fan of violence, but fortunately it’s not too hard to avoid.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, my bet is that sex used to be this thing you rarely see, so seeing it in a movie was this interesting event. Now we have access to more porn that you could. Possibly ever consume at your fingertips. Sex in movies used to sell a movie. Now I don’t think anyone really cares.

      Some people are seeing this and assuming sex has become more divisive so they stopped showing it. I’m almost certain it’s the opposite. No one cares anymore.

  • Xatolos@reddthat.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Seems to match when more people had better access to smartphones and watching videos not just in the privacy of their home. Could be a lot of people aren’t watching movies with sex as often because you don’t want to be on a bus/plane where others can see your screen and suddenly it’s a sex scene. (Amongst other reasons)

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Gotta maximize the target market on everything to get the most clicks and all. It’s why anything that comes out now is so good damn bland.

  • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I wonder if it’s linked to the decline in sex in real life due to young people staying inside more and playing video games instead of socializing. I swear I saw an article about that at some point on Lemmy (or maybe Reddit).

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      People, especially young people are having sex less across the board because everyday life has become a crushing grind, not because of videogames and staying inside. People do choose to do those things instead of socializing… because they are burnt out from trying to meet rent, getting treated like shit at work and sitting in hours of traffic everyday.

      Young people are still just as horny, they are just also very tired and sad.

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m guessing it’s because the highest grossing films are now just slop trying to appeal to the widest demographic possible, so if they include sex, the are excluding families from seeing the film.

  • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I find myself watching older TV a lot because it’s got way less graphic sex and violence. I don’t want to see a person get ripped in half and their guts flying everywhere and i don’t need to see every actress’ boobs. sorry if that makes me a “prude” or whatever but it’s way too much for my taste

    • Veneroso@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I think some of this comes with age?

      I used to be more willing to watch that stuff 20 years ago, which was almost half my lifetime ago.

      But it’s personal choice.

      There were some pretty horrendous stuff on TV, particularly an episode of Law and Order LA where they were dissolving a guy in lye in a bathtub and an episode of Medium where a guy was putting out lit cigarettes on the belly of a dog. I noped right the fuck out of those. These were both years ago at this point but I pretty much refuse to watch cop shows anymore as a result.

      One aspect of sex in media is probably the accessibility of pornography. It’s not special anymore to see a butt or a nipple, so it’s not driving people to the theaters. When I was a kid the closest thing that I had to a Playboy was the Lane Bryant catalog, so seeing Cindy Crawford’s side-boob was pretty awesome, even if I had to endure Alec Baldwin’s hairy ass for the privilege.

      The social acceptance of things seem to be like a pendulum rather than a continuous movement too. It’s definitely swinging towards the prude at the moment. It will swing back eventually.

  • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Let’s make a movie about the creator of the nuclear bomb! We can explore the moral implications, the political drama of communists in the USA during and after WW2, the creations of Los Alamos, the interesting science of…

    Random corporate head: “Let’s have a sex scene! That will make things interesting!”