I am not a teen.

  • shoulderoforion
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    9113 hours ago

    Actual no holds barred sex of every sort you wish to see, as often as you wish to see it, a click away on the interwebz, the titillation found by past generations in R rated movies and late night Television, no longer computes, and is wholly unnecessary

    • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      2711 hours ago

      Yea that was my thought too. When I was a teen we had one PC and it was in a shared room. Had to rely on the TV for jerk off material. These days everyone has the whole internet in their pocket. TV is for watching good stories, they can skip the sex scenes.

    • @zoostation@lemmy.world
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      -2212 hours ago

      Writing a story and having to make my characters not want to have sex because of the existence of an unrelated industry outside the context of their universe.

      Striking out any gambling references in my stories because of the rise of online gambling.

      Then I realize I’ve stupidly written scenes where my characters eat, having forgotten like a stupid hack how many restaurants there are in the real world.

          • Flying Squid
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            33 hours ago

            And also not necessary. You don’t need to see two people fucking to know they’re in love. I assume you don’t need to see your friends fucking to understand that they met someone they’re really into.

            • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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              123 minutes ago

              What if it’s not about love? Sex can be about many things and for the sake of the story.

              Saying it only happens as the result of a perfect romance story is puritan and not beneficial to demystifying sex as an act that humans do.

              • Flying Squid
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                117 minutes ago

                And yet generally they’re romance scenes and not scenes involving lust or rape.

                I am not the one saying it. Hollywood is.

      • shoulderoforion
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        2212 hours ago

        If that’s an example of your writing, you’ve got much larger problems, my friend

      • @almar_quigley@lemmy.world
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        411 hours ago

        Do you characters take big stinky poops? Because that’s a real thing too. Do they pop pimples on their body or on their partners? The list goes on. There’s an audience for everything, but it’s pretty obvious sex isn’t as much of a driver for movies anymore.