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I think the lack of sex in Hollywood can be traced at least in part to the Chinese market. There's a lot of money in it and studios are more than happy to comply with CCP guidelines to get a share of that pie.

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Came here to say this. Big budget Hollywood movies have to be internationally viable nowadays and that means conforming to the least common denominator of the target audiences. The result is movies that are palatable to the US and China and are utterly vacuous garbage.

Adults also don't tend to go to movies, so movies are made for kids. I wonder if Hollywood executives sit around the conference table wondering if a kid that doesn't speak English, doesn't live in N. America, will get the movie.

And sadly the next/upcoming big market, India, isn't any better than China when it comes to censorship.

I'm actually okay with this. I only watch movies with my family and I'm sick of having to pass up on actually interesting movies because they're excessively vulgar.

If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me, I would.

Yeah, I actually prefer a minimal sex scene (conveying the idea that it happened) to the explicit and lengthy stuff in your average HBO mini-series. Even less tolerant of sexual violence and torture. When I think of how many fake rapes I’ve witnessed/mentally onboarded via cinema/tv it makes me throw up a bit.

I've linked to it in the past but I think it's relevant again.

"Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies", 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908

fascinating.

> If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me,

We used to have a number of them. Cleanfilms was one. Send them a DVD, they'd sanitize the content onto another disc, ruin the original and send you both.

Legacy copyright gatekeepers couldn't resist their own compulsions for control - they systematically sued CF and others out of existence.

ref:https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=554802...

ref:https://www.audioholics.com/news/studios-sue-family-friendly...

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