Sex scenes galore in Movies?

jujube said:
I went on a blind date in my late teens with a guy who took me to a movie that was uber racy for the times. I knew nothing about the movie, so was really embarrassed to be sitting there when I realized how much nudity and sex was in it.

The guy who owned the little "art theatre" was getting arrested every day because of the movie, bailing himself out and then promptly showing it again.

I never heard from the date again and I couldn't tell my parents about it because they'd probably not let me go out on a date again until I was 30....LOL.

I guess I was just lucky that the police didn't show up and arrest everyone there. THAT would have been very hard to explain to my parents...
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What if this guy after watching the movie with you would have said: "Now let's go to my room and repeat some scenes of this movie".
 
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Does the abundance of sex scenes reflect the degradation of society, or have we kept our urges under control until now? The world has opened up to all the variations of sex and whatever your preference, it seems there is someone ready to satisfy it. The question is....is this a good thing or not?
Personally, I dislike nudity and sex scenes. I think it is completely unnecessary.
 
Lavinia said:
Does the abundance of sex scenes reflect the degradation of society, or have we kept our urges under control until now? The world has opened up to all the variations of sex and whatever your preference, it seems there is someone ready to satisfy it. The question is....is this a good thing or not?
Personally, I dislike nudity and sex scenes. I think it is completely unnecessary.
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I think if such scenes are done masterly as in "Don't Look Now" (1973) between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, they add much to the movie. But it needs an excellent director as Nicolas Roeg.

So did they? Julie Christie reveals (almost) all about that sex scene
 
Pepper said:
@jujube
Do you remember the name of the movie? Like "I Am Curious-Yellow" or another Swedish one?
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Bingo! That was it. I watched it again many years later and it's downright tame by today's standards.

Whenever we would go to Toronto for the weekend in the 70's, we'd always watch what I think was called "The Baby Blue Movie Channel" on the hotel TV, which played soft porn over-the-air. Again, really tame stuff but a lot more skin than was allowed at the time by U.S. standards.
 
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My grandpa was involved on-and-off in the movie theater business, starting out as a 16-year-old protectionist and later owned theaters.

He was visiting us in Detroit in the 1970s and told me the story about the only time he had ever been there. Apparently, sometime in the 1920s, Gramps was then in the business of showing what was called "smoker movies", racy movies.

He strongly assured me that he only showed them to men's groups like fraternal lodges and such, NEVER to "college boys". That was a point of honor to him, that he wasn't "corrupting the youth". I can see the twinkle in his eye and he instructed me to NEVER tell my grandma that he had told me about this.

Well, apparently, the Detroit Police had raided the showing and had arrested him. While the cops were watching the movie (for "evidential purposes" of course...wink-wink, nod-nod...), he escaped out the back door and caught a ferry to Windsor, Canada, where he hung out for a couple of days.

He always joked that there might be a warrant still out for his arrest and he expected there to be cops waiting for him at the bottom of the plane steps. I always had a hard time reconciling my early-days "wild" grandpa of his stories with the mild, soft-natured, church usher one I grew up with.
 
oscash said:
Speaking of sand and a little off the subject - Why do the girls who play Beach Volleyball have to wear such small bikinis in competition? The men usually have on tight fitting stretch pants and thus avoid sand in specific places. The poor girls must suffer gravel-rash and have to sit in a bucket of cold water to turn the heat down. Can someone please explain the rules of the game, and the dress code.
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It is all about TV ratings....the Olympic beach volleyball has been interesting...their suits are nice!
 
Lavinia said:
Does the abundance of sex scenes reflect the degradation of society, or have we kept our urges under control until now? The world has opened up to all the variations of sex and whatever your preference, it seems there is someone ready to satisfy it. The question is....is this a good thing or not?
Personally, I dislike nudity and sex scenes. I think it is completely unnecessary.
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Yes, there's no question that the ubiquity and intensity of graphic sex scenes in movies and series reflect societal decay in modern times. There are plenty of other indicators (loss of morals, standards, values, personal responsibility, etc.), but the onslaught of sex scenes --both traditional and deviant-- is one obvious indicator of societal debasement.

Producers may do what they want, and adults are free to support whatever they wish. But the MPA rating system has gradually become diluted and inaccurate for many films. Many PG-13 films should be rated R, whereas many R films should be NC-17.

Up until the late '60s all films were in effect either G or PG in substance. But as soon as the sex genie was let out of the bottle its use has steadily escalated to the point where oftentimes the sex portrayed has nothing to do with the story. It's simply used gratuitously.

Will this practice tamp down? Is difficult to say, but it won't be anytime soon.
 
Lara said:
I've never seen one of those on TV. Maybe you mistakingly ended up in the wrong section of the internet? Is someone else using your computer? When using the search bar be careful not to make any typos. Like when you're searching for "pansies" or the like.
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In the early days of the internet, pornography didn't seem to be policed. I would have been mortified if some graphic image was on my screen and my wife caught sight of it. Fortunately my Godson is a bit of a whizz with the technology and put some software program into wherever it went, and is it strict, or what? It only has to detect an advert of a woman in her underwear to go into a hissy-fit. Still better that than have something in the computer memory that would shame me if I had to call in a technician to fix some fault or other.
 
For such a mature audience here you folks sure are funny!

Most of the sex scenes in modern media are not there for guys' benefit, they're inserted for women. In stories aimed at a male audience you rarely have sex scenes and basically never anything too suggestive, much less explicit. The exception is when it has clear impact on the story or is only there for shock value.

I'm much more disgusted by advertising for women's adult diapers. Apparently sleeker, streamlined ones are a hot item now because old women need to piss and shit themselves in public more often than ever.
 
Pepper said:
I think I was too young to see it when "I Am Curious-Yellow" first came out. When I saw it a few years later it was not as raunchy as I was expecting. It was an "Art" Film, remember those?
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Iā€™ve no idea. I didnā€™t see it. I was just joking with you. My first x rated movie was when I was 12. My dad took me to it. I was in California and my mother was in Canada.
I hated it.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Iā€™ve no idea. I didnā€™t see it. I was just joking with you. My first x rated movie was when I was 12. My dad took me to it. I was in California and my mother was in Canada.
I hated it.
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:mad::mad::mad::mad: on your father (((PP))). Grooming. I shall say no more, but my heart is enraged.
:mad: :mad: on the ones who sold him the tickets. Culpable.
 
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