Do you find there is a greater depiction of very graphic violence, than very graphic sex?

I hate gratuitous violence and love sex, but both are available nowadays in way too graphic a form for my liking. Extremely gratuitous violence is much more widely available, as it’s openly welcomed on TV and in theaters. And then there is always the news. I vote with you. More, sex; but less of the open-heart-surgery kind. I’m a [NSFW] Make Love, Not Porn subscriber.

I’d rather watch Die Hard, not Debbie Does Dallas.

Apparently only in America. The Europeans have a different viewpoint.
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It’s all about ratings and marketability and selling tickets.

The MPAA is very lenient on PG-13 ratings for very graphic violence, and very prudish about showing “full boobs” without an R rating, let alone even clean, not very graphic, loving sex. So U.S. filmmakers know what they need to do to get a PG-13 so that they can get plenty of seats sold.

An R rating means no middle schoolers and fewer high schoolers, and they are the ones who pack the summer movies and spend $20 each on popcorn, soda, and a box of candy.

Me, I’d rather watch a classic black and white film noir from the ‘40s, early ‘50s.

Yes I do; both in the theater and on television.

This is a great message that we send our kids and the rest of society.

We glorify violence and suppress sex and wonder why we have so many sexually frustrated, violence prone psychotics in our world. It just gets worse when they turn to drugs to self-medicate their existence and our response as a society is to tell them “Drugs are bad, ok?” and restrict access so that only the criminal element has them for sale.

Then we shoot them and put it on the 6 o’clock news

Speaking personally, I am just the opposite of @huzzah.

@rojo I’m certainly not sexually frustrated due to the lack of porn in our theaters and I’m not violent prone because I’d rather watch Kick Ass. What ever happened to personal responsibility? Violent movies are not responsible for all the violence in the world. So you would prefer to watch porn in a theater with your 15 year old child? I think that’s kind of gross.

@huzzah Good, and I am not a pacifist sex junkie.

I agree with you about watching porn with your 15 year old, we differ in that I think that watching gratuitous violence with your 15 year old is just as gross.

Just sayin’ you get out of something what you put into it.

The violence disgusts me on so many levels. I don’t like to watch it, I don’t like that so many people don’t mind it or even enjoy it. I don’t like promoting likenit is normal. Sex is a natural part of life, so I don’t mind seeing some on film, but even that does not have to be so extremely graphic. If I had children I would much rather they watch a film with some sex than with violence. To me violence is the real XXX.

However, I agree watching a film with sex in it with ones own teenager is odd and uncomfortable. I am not saying I am ok with young children watching sex either.

RIght, it is so much worse to show the public willingness to commit violence, but something that is as sweet and good as sex between lovers, just not there!