"Sex on screen: No longer taboo?"

[DrLeftover]

8 January 2014

Blue Is the Warmest Colour and Nymphomaniac have attracted attention for their graphic sexual content. But what does the explicit trend mean for films? Nicholas Barber reports.


The most talked-about eight minutes in cinema last year were in the French film, Blue is the Warmest Colour. The movie’s graphic lesbian sex scene was so explicit and prolonged - frankly, it looked exhausting − that Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour coming-of-age drama could have been dismissed as pornography. And yet, while there was much debate concerning the morality of a 52-year-old male director telling two naked young actresses to contort themselves into human reef knots, the film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and went onto garner rave reviews. Most critics accepted that Blue is the Warmest Colour wasn’t a blue movie – but an honest, unflinching portrayal of first love.

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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140108-sex-on-screen-no-longer-taboo

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Sex in the media has not been taboo for a long time now. We're all desensitized and over exposed.

 

[DrLeftover]

That was "implied sex". Like the 'bedroom scenes' in soap operas.

Actual on camera REAL sex acts in mainstream movies has been a rarity.

 

[Kirito]

That was "implied sex". Like the 'bedroom scenes' in soap operas.

Actual on camera REAL sex acts in mainstream movies has been a rarity.

Sure, for hollywood movies. Lot's of European movies have had graphical sex scenes for a long time. In fact, I doubt I've seen many Belgian movies without at least seeing some tits.

But yes, I think even for americans it's becoming less taboo. Dunno about movies, but in tv shows... Just look at Game Of Thrones or Spartacus...

 

[Evil Teddy Bear of Doom]

First the internet, and now mainstream... the porn industry seems to be getting attacked on all fronts with competition!

 

[DrLeftover]

They are talking about Sex, not nudity.

And for the record, and in spite of the preoccupation with them by male and female TV producers, the primary purpose of the female's breasts are NOT as "('{fun bags}')" or anything else that way, they are Baby Feeders. And while they may be scenic, exposing cleavage is NOT a sex act.

 

[Kirito]

They are talking about Sex, not nudity.

Would you consider sex scenes where everything aside from penetration is shown as a part of it?

 

[Evil Eye]

In November, Evan Rachel Wood complained on Twitter that censors had cut an oral sex scene from her latest film, Charlie Countryman, “but the scenes of people being murdered by having their heads blown off remained intact and unaltered”.

I would consider showing sex in movies more wholesome than the gore that is commonplace. Progress

In fact, I doubt I've seen many Belgian movies without at least seeing some tits.

I'd like to extend this to Dutch-language movies in general.