72
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
72 points (86.0% liked)
Movies and TV Shows
2036 readers
44 users here now
A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.
Rules:
- Be civil.
- Please do not link to pirated content.
- No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
- Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The show Sex Education does a pretty good job of showing the different types of sex that can happen between all different kinds of relationships. If you're looking for that kind of representation, that show has it.
It's also a really good show regardless.
I’m not interested in watching sex scenes. Diverse or not, the diversity is just a pet peeve of mine.
A while back I watched a Japanese film about a sex worker. It took almost the entire film before it showed a sex scene.
I also browsed around for something new to watch, saw a trailer for “Who Is Erin Carter?”, a mother and her daughter is in a grocery store, which gets robbed. They get attacked, mother fights back, and in a twist she and a robber recognises one another. Seemed interesting! Actual show had like two or three sex scenes within the first 25 minutes so I stopped watching.
If I want to watch porn, I’ll go to a site with porn and pick a genre I enjoy. Usually with burly hairy men, typically no women involved.
If I’m watching a film or a show, I want a gripping/engaging story, something pornography doesn’t tend to have.
Sex Education is mainly about the really good story. And the sex scenes, which are mostly just about fooling around, have an actual purpose. It's character development first and foremost to tell a story about the types of love and types of sex that can occur.
But different strokes for different folks, pun intended.
Yeah that's fair. It sounds like something very appropriate for an American audience given how prude and repressed they tend to be. I'm sure it's good, but I'm currently more into mystery stuff. Hence the title "Who is Erin Carter" and the ominous trailer really set these expectations, only for my interest to drop at all the shagging.
I realise that makes me sound quite prude. I'm actually a massive slut, just not interested in watching actors getting it on. I want thrill, and suspense.
I also feel like for most films/shows, including the sex scene is just pandering to people who enjoy that. Which is fine. Sometimes it might relate to character development, but the development rarely happens during the actual scene, other than "these two shagged." Often you could've just "summarised" it by showing the afterglow or whatever.
More than that, I feel like you can tell great stories without ever really involving sex. I don't actually think about sex all the time, but when films and TV is so rife with it, you get the impression that the producers absolutely do.