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Why Gen Z's turned off by sex scenes in movies

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> a new survey of 2,000 Americans found that 33% of all those polled have stopped watching a movie during a sex scene.

> Forty-three percent of those polled believe that sex scenes are either always or mostly unnecessary and don’t add enjoyment or story enhancement — Gen Z was the most likely generation to agree with this sentiment.

> 'if I want to see nudity I will watch porn. It has no business in regular films.'

So a 40% drop in sex/nudity since 2000 in movies. I'd be curious to see the breakdown by type of movies. The demise of the teen sex comedy couldn't come fast enough for me. Ditto the trope of murdering every young women who disrobes in a horror movie.

But it would be sad to see all depictions of healthy, emotionally connected sex banished from the screen. Given what I keep hearing about young people not having sex, it seems like it would almost be a public service (Schoolhouse Rock for Gen Z?)

Quite a few movies seemed to shoehorn in a sex scene that contributed nothing to the storyline. I’m happy to see that trend go away.

Sex scenes are a form of pandering, but not the only one. Rare is the modern film that doesn't use some cheap mechanism to get audience response.

There is no why in the article, only what.

Another possible explanation is that movie sex scenes might not be outright hardcore porn, and deal with emotional connection which Gen Z might be having issues with, in part due to all the porn that has been in their faces from an early age.

I think also because everyone has constant access porn on their phones and computers at home it's no longer titillating or exciting for audiences to see steamy scenes in movies, just awkward to be sitting with your family or people you don't know in a theatre and have a sex scene come on.

Sure. Judging from the trending downvotes, a lot of people don't like my possible other explanation, but science doesn't really care if they like it or not. We are exploring ideas that can explain the data, not ideas that make you feel warm and fuzzy.

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