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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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Can probably extend that a bit. I've very rarely seen a sex scene in a movie and found it to actually be relevant.
Early 90's here and thought I was the outlier. Came out as asexual 3 years ago though
I've often found them to be enjoyable
I mainly find that if I want to watch sex I will watch sex, if I want to watch a movie I want to watch a movie.
I enjoy sex in my movies. It's totally different when it's a movie vs porn. To me it's a bit like saying if you wanted to watch violence you'd watch Liveleak hah
Yeah. I feel like things like fight and sex scenes are often filler. They’re like black boxes that only matter to the story at either end. Why are these characters having sex/fighting? What’s the outcome? Has this confirmed their romance or made them rethink things? Who won the fight and what does that mean going forward?
The actual details of either kind of scene are essentially suspensions of any narrative or thematic development in favor of pure spectacle. Now sometimes spectacle can be good. But while I’ve seen good action scenes that are exciting to watch, what would even make for a good sex scene as far as spectacle goes? People aren’t exactly looking to get a boner in the middle of a 2hr movie. Are there people who are just really appreciative of some kind of abstracted eroticism separated from stimulation?
Yeah it's also weird and fake. It's like it's just an intermission segment used as marketing enticement for creeps.
Recenty: Oppenheimer.
People remember the imagined sex scene during the inquisition, but often forget it was imagined from the wife’s point of view. That moment was pivotal to the plot, but honestly - it’s every husband’s worst nightmare about cheating. You can imagine all the crazy Basic Instict stuff you want since you know its generally unrealistic, but if you care about your partner, you never want to have her to have that moment in her head because it’s too real.