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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

F in chat.

...because it's not in the movie.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rise of sex in TV series 📈

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

The effect porn on portable devices had on how much people need to make deposits in the spank bank

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours 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.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incline if use of shades of greys in diagrams instead of easily identifiable colours: up 500%

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

46 Shades of Grey Short

[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No wonder, American puritanism is at a record high.

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nah if you want to watch porn you can just watch porn.

Access to adult content is never been easier so we don't need half-assed versions in our film.

also, there's some selection bias as the "top X grossing films" has included more and more childrens films over time as adult consumption of all content has moved out of the theatre and to the internet.

[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

No, it's not. Has everything to do with sex scenes not adding anything of value to a film.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might have something to do with movies catering more heavily to "Family" audiences (the functional death of the R-rate film in theaters) while TV shows cater more heavily to childless adults.

We've literally coined the term "sexpository" to justify injecting gratuitous naked time into our 8-12 hour prestige TV shows. We've also made these sex scenes a lot gayer, which rubs the Family Friendly crowd the wrong way but plays great with the 20-30 somethings who are all on board with it.

[–] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

I think this is it. Most movies are trying to avoid an R rating and slide into PG-13, because PG-13 movies generally make a lot more money than R-rated ones because the audience is greater.

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[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder how much of this correlates with the rise of intimacy coordinators. I’m sure there are productions that think it’s not worth the investment so they just scrap the scene and have it take place off camera etc.

And perhaps a rise in actors not wanting to have their stuff on the internet forever now (even more so with the rise of AI training)

[–] Granite@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wonder how much of this is because Disney owns everything.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I wonder how this would trend if we cut out comic book movies from the stat.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it correlates more strongly to the prevalence of pornography. Mainstream movie scenes look fake and contrived, because they are. As unrealistic as pornography is, that is actually a dick, and it is actually going in a vagina.

When your mainstream movie sex scene is going to be compared (unfavorably) to a scene of two people actually fucking, why bother even shooting it?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I think this only happens because sex is as fake as most other emotions in today's movies.

I also hate how everything is glossy, even character faces. Even fear, blood and shit are glossy.

FFS, old Hollywood with exceptionally cute actors on main roles still would have a bit of that noble mess around, chaotic here and there and in conversations. Good 3d artists know that you need some chaos in everything distinguishable in your scenes or they will look fake.

It's rather that fake-looking sex scenes in movies don't feel like art, they feel like porn without satisfaction. So nobody bothers.

While fixing that culture would require changing the environment around film making. You know, the one forming the demand for bore and glossiness.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What bothers me more is that violence gets a PG rating here, sex gets an X rating. How in the world is it more inappropriate for kids to see people naked than for them to watch someone hack someone else to death? The graphic violence should get a more restricted rating than on screen sex.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When your nation always needs to be at war, it's helps to repress sexuality and normalize violence. This isn't so much a conspiracy theory, but an observation of an emergence behavior that reinforces itself.

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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!"

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

ok, now I'm torn. I am completely happy with less sex scenes and prefer it because it just isn't trivial to the plot what-so-ever. But, then you had to bring Florence Pugh into it.

[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now I am become death, the destroyer of...... Ooo... titties!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Booties

Though admittedly IRL and not in jokes I like titties more too, hair and eyes even more so.

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