Do younger girl-older man love relationships in movies turn you on?
Lolita, American Beauty and Notes On a Scandal are just a few examples.
I read somewhere that many people thought “not all things should be put in movies”.
I personally disagree with this, and I do get turned on a little bit watching these movies, and I enjoy them. I also think movies shouldn’t have a limit, and a movie can be freely made about anything a mind can imagine.
It makes me feel pity that a lot of people think some things aren’t ‘morally right’ or they are ‘really wrong’ so even art shouldn’t mention them. It is like rejecting what exists, rejecting our thoughts and imagination.
What do you think? Sorry, I know this is not just one question but feel free to answer it your way.
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I’m not sure I understand the question. What do you mean by ‘turn you on’ in what context do you mean?
@Headhurts I’m sorry. I tried editing but didn’t work. I meant ‘sexually arouse’ you.
Nope, just older men ;)
But I don’t think that art should be prohibited from exploring controversial topics that some people find immoral.
A lot of films sexually arouse me. Whatever age the people in question may be. I guess I would rather it be a older man rather than a younger one. I don’t get turned on by boys.
While I don’t think it’s morally wrong, I don’t find the idea arousing. I also agree that movies should have whatever the hell they want in them. I mean seriously, anyone seen Gummo?
@Symbeline I just googled Gummo, it sounds interesting! But the rating isn’t that good. Is it a bad movie?
No, sorry, let me build on that…definitely not.
Not anymore than movies with a couple close in age. I do find older men sexier than most young men, though.
I know not everyone is into what I’m into, but my favorite show is Queer as Folk in which a 17-year-old boy loses his virginity and begins a dysfunctional, crazy, amazing, unconventional non-relationship with a 29-year-old guy. Now, the thought of this would typically gross me out, but there was nothing gross about watching these two together. It had nothing to do with their age – it had more to do with how fucking hot and awesome they were together. MEOW!
@livelaughlove21 It’s an excellent movie, in my opinion. But it’s very different, and nowhere near like big Hollywood type movies. It’s also highly disturbing, and a little too artsy for my taste, but it’s worth it if you want a different experience. Considered a cult movie, as in, it’s barely heard of, but it has its fans.
Also, welcome to Fluther. :D
These relationships can be sexually exciting and dangerous but they aren’t necessarily morally wrong and they shouldn’t be banned as unfit for the movies. If we need to take a hard look at anything in cinema just now it is probably the amount of extreme violence.
Right now, gay male porn does it for me and I’m a lesbian. Go figure.
Nope quite the opposite. I just don’t get it at all. Like yes love is timeless blah blah but when it’s an age gap like that….wtf can these two people possibly have in common?
My mom dated a man for a while that was 30 yrs older than her. I never quite understood that one. It was like having a third grandfather around….
All of that said, I don’t see any reason that shouldn’t still be shown in movies. There is plenty of stuff I see in movies that I don’t agree with, but that is all part of the experience. How friggin boring would movies be if they were all just stuff you agreed with…
Whenever I butter my toast & lick any trace from my fingertips I shudder, because it reminds me of Brando sticking his finger up that girl’s arse in Last Tango in Paris…not good :(
Sometimes they do, it depends on the movie and the actors. I should add that I’ve always been attracted to older men (I totally had the hots for Harrison Ford when I was around 9–10, and he was in his 40’s, haha!), so that has a lot to do with why I like movies like that.
Ooops, haha. Yeah, sorry. XD
I think pedophilia is awful. There is a power imbalance between adults and young girls that can never be made right. I would feel the same way about youg boys and older women.
Not particularly. Girl on girl relationships, on the other hand…
I have a theory that some women who molested are into that sort of thing. The movies that the OP mentioned.
Well, after seeing @marinelife‘s comment and wondering why in the hell she mentioned pedophilia, I looked up the titles of the given movies in the details.
So I’m changing my answer to “Hell fucking no.”
“Younger girls” as in there’s an age gap between the two actors (like 20 and 50), which is what I originally thought the OP meant? Fine. “Younger girls” as in teenagers or younger, with an older man? Eewww.
Not in the least. It makes me cringe.
@Mama_Cakes molested who? Just anyone or in particular?
Meant who were moletested.
I’m a guy and I used to watch certain soaps as a teen/early twenties, and situations where older women had affairs with younger guys always interested me. Personally I’ve always been intrigued by the allure of an older woman. I was fairly mature for being a teen, so older women always appealed to me more.
Seeing you did not have an age spread for the females that give wide latitude on age. If it was germane to the story, it would not bother me any more than seeing wanton, gratuitous murder in slasher, horror, and other films. I am more put off about the casual treatment of getting drunk or high in films because it demeans the seriousness and danger to society it causes by making it seem like fun harmless activity. If one allows their emotions to run roughshod over logic, they may be offended.
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