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The elephant in the room might actually be US-American prudery. But to confirm, we'd have to check if prudery became stronger in the last 20 years and if non-US movies have still the same (or more) amount of sex in it.

But it's actually a well-known meme in the rest of the world that entertainment from the US has no problem depicting violence, but god beware you see the nipple of a woman...

Game of Thrones was extremely unique and "Non-American" for the nudeness and many sex scenes.

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MPAA is still controlled by a vague group of older christian people and the movie ratings reflect that.

Like the fact that a PG-13 movie (IIRC) can get a single "fuck", not two. Just one.

Violence is fine, you just can't show its effects (no blood no matter how much you get beaten, bloody scrapes seem to be A-OK).

Sex and sexuality are absolutely banned in every way.

In MPAA-land, hacking a breast off with a machete is R-rated, but kissing it earns you an instant X (well, NC-17).

I heard a funny clip of the actors who played the Hobbits in LoTR where, precisely, the best place to drop their one-and-only f-bomb; they’d limited themselves to the whole franchise, maybe? Funny stuff.

> Game of Thrones was extremely unique and "Non-American" for the nudeness and many sex scenes.

Really? My feeling is the other way around - that say HBO shows (made by Americans) always have gratuitous nudity and sex scenes. Even the great ones, like "The Wire" or "Sopranos" had plenty of them. It's as if there's a person at HBO responsible for checking scripts if there's enough sex/nudity in them, because research shows they increase viewership.

CollegeHumor had a famous parody bit where they showed the story of young actors/actresses landing big roles, but when they explain to their peers what is it they do at the job, it sounds like they've been hired by the porn industry. but no, "it's not porn, it's HBO!" Then everyone cheers and is happy for them.

This is a joke, but it's also an important factor: actors and actresses can now push back against being made to film these scenes in ways that range from "uncomfortable" to "actual sexual assault". So there are fewer such scenes, because it's more expensive and requires more planning than just "bully lead actress until she takes her top off".

How does that relate? HBO still makes these scenes.

The Chinese Communist Party are also a bunch of prudes, so we're in good company!

What's US-American? You mean American?

Is this one of those weird things where Germans try to dunk on Americans by calling us USians?

It's less ambiguous. It's the name of the country. It's not a weird dunk to acknowledge that "America" is two continents (and that one them is in fact not called "Mexico"). What's weird is someone who lives in a country called USA being so insecure about being called USAn.

Europeans love to think when people say America they are referring to the continent, despite everyone knowing they mean the USA. I think it's an inferiority complex/dislike of US thing

Its a pretty common reaction anytime something is perceived as being overly self important. Its normal to us but I can see that perspective.

Please refer to us with our chosen demonym, it’s just basic manners.

I could dunk on Germans by referring to them as Nazis then acting indignant when they protest, but I won’t, because that would be bizarre and make me look insane

Well, you're right that would be bizarre and make you look insane.

You know that isnt what we do right? German is our word for them, it isnt what they call themselves.

That would make sense if we were speaking German. But we, and they, are not

What? You're talking nonsense now.

It's a South Carolina colloquialism. Maybe to distinguish from Confederate Americans. https://youtu.be/lj3iNxZ8Dww

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