It's all about De-sensitization
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Track607 — 13 years ago(June 18, 2012 08:14 PM)
The reason the Ratings Group members and, in fact, the public are okay with seeing physical violence, war, blood guts and internal organs lying on the ground.. is because it's somehow easy to desensitize to this. You see it once, it doesn't truly affect you again, unless you have some personal inclination towards it or it's much worse than the last time. You build up a tolerance and become a less sensitive person in general.
That is how society works, unfortunately. It works.
What doesn't work is becoming desensitized to sexuality. No one wants that, no one. There is no reason to maintain sensitivity towards violence, but there is plenty of reason to maintain sensitivity towards sex. So, seeing a shocking sex scene which is, only there for the prospect of being shocking (most NC-17 submissions), hits you in a way that you don't really want to recover from.. you WANT to be sensitive to it and the side-effect is that you can also be pained by certain things more.
Americans are just sensitive than Europeans. More boorish and dumb, but more sensitive.
Not that I agree with the MPAA (in any way). They are interested in nothing but censorship.
This is a form of censorship. The war on drugs and the war online pirating will either remain futile to try to appeal to over-sensitive people's inhibitions, or it will upscale to where no one has freedom so they cannot do drugs or pirate. Those are the only two options.
Im ashamed to say I would spred my legs so fast it would cause a sonic boom -Nweisha -
Quanfa — 13 years ago(June 21, 2012 11:00 AM)
A long time ago Americans defined innocence as free from the knowledge of sex. Violence was always okay, even in Europe - public executions has to say something about a mentality doesn't it?
I don't know - it was funny to hear the director of Boys Don't Cry blame censorship on men's inability to deal with sexual pleasure and I couldn't disagree more. The biggest censors of sex, I believe, are women, not men. -
Quanfa — 13 years ago(July 13, 2012 03:21 PM)
I agree with you about Waco. The government definitely got nervous about the Davidians and disguised it with claims of child abuse within the compound. In the end it was easier for the government to just set them on fire.
I don't believe aids was created by the government though. It's just too far fetched without any evidence besides Reagan ignoring it. We don't live in X-Files world where 10 old white men secretly run the world. The government is made up of power hungry ambitious morons who couldn't do anything else. There's just no way the government is smart enough to pull off something like an AIDS creation in secret.
Free love isn't the same as free energy. I agree, oil dependence is really devious and I wouldn't put anything past the government in the name of oil, but free love? You have a lot of nostalgia for the 70's - I don't know how old you are but the 70's was not really a coven of free thought and creativity. Sure that existed, but no more than what happened before it or after it. People are still people. Some people screw their lives up and some don't.
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classOFfitness — 13 years ago(July 25, 2012 06:01 PM)
@Track607: you hardly see sexuality on TV, unless its Sofia Vergara. even then alot of peoples wants to see it but hollywood pulls back from it. and they never cast womens with Big Boobs, unless its for a small role or a hottie role. christian womens & conservative womens can go both ways if you think about it?
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kidjay83 — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 12:30 PM)
"What doesn't work is becoming desensitized to sexuality. No one wants that, no one. There is no reason to maintain sensitivity towards violence, but there is plenty of reason to maintain sensitivity towards sex. " Yeah it doesn't make any sense how we can't be desensitized toward sexuality. Maybe its because we have films that show actual sex .That type of sex on film is separated ,its not like watching violence on the news which plays all the time .Violence is everywhere maybe that's why we are desensitized to it .Sex on film is made for pleasures which is something you do in private.
People have sex in there homes behind closed doors ;they watch movies with graphic sex behind closed doors.Maybe it's just the way we were conditioned ,maybe they need to start showing.People having actual sex in the streets on the 6 o clock news.On a daily basis sex is also attached to love i know those emotions can be very powerful.There's more depth to Love than sex they'res the sacredness of it maybe people.Like to keep it sacred by being sensitive to sex it's a good thing .
Violence is bad so they shut themselves off from it ,;it's seems like the natural way for people to deal.They detach themselves from it,strange world we live in that's for sure.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.