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Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds (www.latimes.com)

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y'all need to go fuck some more. Films like La La Land are really missing something without a sex scene, the chemistry feels really fake and the relationship isn't believable.

Sex is normal. Sex is good. Sex in films is necessary to convey intensity which a pan from bed shot can never achieve.

Great example: Terminator. Without this scene the whole franchise fails. The film doesn't have the gravitas when John does die without it. And it's a highly charged emotional reaction to the harrowing events they have both just been through.

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[–] red@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't watch nothing without sex scenes

[–] Feddyteddy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess there's not many grammar lessons with sex scenes in theme.

[–] im_not_really_me@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess ~~there's not~~ there aren't many grammar lessons with sex scenes in ~~theme~~ them.

FTFY

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[–] red@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so sorry. In my native language, this grammar is correct, I would never predict that English does this different way

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[–] Lath@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm the gen that saw couples having sex butt-naked on the kitchen counter in a random movie at 3-4 in the afternoon. And all i remember now of that movie is that i don't like seeing guys butts.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Apparently I'm the only one that likes being titillated by movies. I don't get the "it adds nothing to the plot" complaint. Tons of movies have action scenes and gratuitous violence that adds nothing to the plot, yet i don't see complaints about that. 95% of John Wick is gratuitous violence that added nothing to the plot, but I still love it.

I think this says more about American prudishness and people's unhealthy attitudes towards sex than anything.

Bunch of unnecessary death? Cool and fun! An unnecessary titty? Awkward and gratuitous.

Fuck all of you. I want more nudity and sex in my movies and the comparative lack of it compared to the 80s and 90s feels like we're excluding a huge part of life from art because a bunch of prudes find it icky. But they're happy to watch nameless dudes get creatively and graphically killed.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Personally, my problem with sex in shows and movies is that it's blatantly not titillating. Hollywood sex scenes are just awfully done/acted/shot.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

With all due respect, have you read the article? Attributing this to prudishness misses a lot of what's actually being said: that shoe-horning in romance or sex for no reason is the problem, as well as lack of attention being given to developing platonic relationships. Exploring non-romantic or sexual relationships better doesn't necessarily mean cutting out sex and romance, and imo, would likely lead to better sex and romance in TV and movies.

But I agree with you also, that gratuitous sex and nudity can be used to great effect. Another user https://lemmy.world/comment/4888355 (don't know how to link comments, hopefully this will work) posted a link to the article "Everyone is beautiful, no-one is horny" above, and this really highlights the problem on this side of things, in my view

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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can get behind this. I can't even remember the last time I saw a sex scene in a movie that needed to be there - it just makes for an awkward moment.

If I wanted to see a sex scene, I'd just watch porn, not a movie where other stuff is meant to be happening.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the one in Blade Runner 2049 did a lot for the character of Joi in particular. But it's about the only example I can think of just now

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[–] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Good.

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I mean so are my parents

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm with Gen Z on this. Hell, I've have been complaining about this since I was a kid in the 80s. You do not need every damn relationship to be a romance. People can be friends and acquaintances and frienemies and enemies and everything in-between without there being romance or sex.

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