Almost half of Gen Z viewers want less sex on screen, study finds

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I find that too many shows and movies add sex scenes unnecessarily. It doesn't add that much, except to drive the maturity rating up from PG->R or something like that. I think that sometimes, it's done intentionally because there's a category of viewers that won't watch anything PG/PG-13 rated.

Imagine if Game of Thrones eliminated all nude/sex scenes. Would it be a better show if they focused on character interactions rather than 'edgy' scenes? How many horror movies are R-rated because of a singular 15 second sex scene?

I'm hoping that we reach a point where shows/movies don't add in sex scenes unless they add some value to it.

ive been watching the netflix show sex education and it is always the most boring and uninteresting when the characters are talking about or otherwise having sex. the show is much more interesting when it focuses on the actual relationships between the characters.

all this machine learning and big tech still can't detect when my mom is watching with me to auto skip the sex scenes.

Does anyone remember when a group tried to buy legal copies of movies and resell them at cost, including a cleaned up version without all the sex, violence, and foul language? The movie industry sued them and shut them down.

Parents were willing to pay double to eliminate the sex, violence, and foul language. Hollywood refused to allow it even when it cost them lots of money.

Hollywood does not put that garbage in front of our children because of a profit motive.

Plays in the historical days skipped the 'sex scenes'.

When I want to watch a story, all this 'sex' stuff just gets in the way.

The animated tv show 'Captain Fall' went from edgy to just down right ugg. Even 'American Gods' has a good premise but with un needed injection of 'sex scenes' it just slowed down the plot and in the end, just started to skip 10-20mins of of just to move the plot along.

Do they want less violence?

When last I subscribed to Netflix the amount and intensity of violence was jarring.

The US version of Dirk Gently just seemed to be sickenly violent.

I have seen one movie in a theater in the last decade. I made the error of agreeing to take my son to see Oppenheimer. Then we both got to feel very uncomfortable at all those communist mammories.

I will probably never see another movie in a theater.

IIRC movie producers make a cleaned up version of their movie for airplanes. Too bad they don't offer that version to the general public as well.