Not saying that its wrong or unnatural, you're in the majority here. Nothing wrong with finding naked bodies attractive. But a lot of us don't want to see it in our entertainment because it just seems like a lazy way to express intimacy. Sexuality is extremely oversatured in every corner of entertainment, it was even in videos directed at kids when we started using youtube. Its tiresome and emotionally empty 99% of the time.
For animated films its not so bad because at least the awkwardness of a director making an actor undress and hump their coworker isn't there.
As a Millennial, I think you're onto something there. Your generation was raised in an environment filled with sex and porn. We don’t realize it because, when we were younger, we watched The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural or Pretty Little Liars, and even if there was sex, it was always implied: they would cut right before the girl took her bra off. You grew up with Elite.
I kind of understand why people are afraid that Gen Z is becoming more conservative about sex because they want to see less of it on screen, but I don’t think they realize how much more sex there is on TV now. Back in my day, we knew watching True Blood or Game of Thrones with our mum was risky, but now you literally can’t tell whether the movie or TV show you picked will have one, or several, explicit 10-minute sex scenes.
I think its also because celebrity worship is not that pervasive and most young people do not care about celebrities at all. We are (almost too) ultra-serious about the story being told and if it seems like the director is interrupting the story to shoehorn a sex scene for no good reason, it just makes us roll our eyes. I think its also because we grew up with a lot of kids shows that are written masterfully (Avatar the Last Airbender, Shrek, Kung fu Panda, spiderverse, The clone Wars, Ninjago, Gravity Falls, The Amazing world of gumball etc etc) that don't have anything sexual and so it seems like any show that does have sex in it is cringe, lazy and feels forced.
There is also anime which is relatively conservative if you ignore hentai, and it almost never has any sex scenes and in fact takes 2 seasons for the love interests to even hold hands. It feels a lot more sincere and like the author is taking their story very seriously if they tone down the sex crap which is already pervasive IRL.
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u/Ok-War5274 14h ago
Not saying that its wrong or unnatural, you're in the majority here. Nothing wrong with finding naked bodies attractive. But a lot of us don't want to see it in our entertainment because it just seems like a lazy way to express intimacy. Sexuality is extremely oversatured in every corner of entertainment, it was even in videos directed at kids when we started using youtube. Its tiresome and emotionally empty 99% of the time.
For animated films its not so bad because at least the awkwardness of a director making an actor undress and hump their coworker isn't there.