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I grew up during the time when sex scenes on HBO and Cinemax were the closest thing to porn on tv. I can't think of a worse sex scene than The Specialist, with Sly Stallone. It was silly and unnecessary. I even found it weird as a teen. That says a lot. There were many scenes like this in many films.
You can include sex without dramatizing / showcasing it. I don't blame young people for finding these old tropes to be a digression. See my other comment about sex in The Sopranos to confirm that I'm not anti-sex in media.
There are bad scenes of any variety in media. Why focus on sex scenes?
Why shouldn't sex be dramatised or showcased? Its far lamer to just fade to black and wink, for god's sake we're adults.
It's far lamer to shoehorn in a long sex scene that doesn't make sense. See sex in Sopranos, as I mentioned. It's not overdone. It happens and we move on.
What doesn't make sense about long sex scenes? They're not exactly hard to follow.
Even still I'm not convinced that long sex scenes are ubiquitous in the way you are suggesting outside of things like fifty shade of grey.
I guess you didn't watch a lot of mainstream movies on HBO in the 90s. They were gratuitous at the time.
Neither did Gen Z, that's not what they are complaining about.
You're right, but you're missing the forrest for the trees. Deliberately, I think.
To me they just sound exactly like the conservatives in days gone past, outraged at the prospect of sexual content. Media is better when people let creatives do their thing and people stop worrying about every damn thing being done "correctly" I.e following their formula or prescription.
With the amount of choice we have now, why anybody chooses to watch things they don't want to consume to then complain about it online is absolutely beyond me.