• greenskye@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    How does Gen Z feel about nudity in films? Either nudity that fits the scene and feels logical or nudity just for fan service?

    I’m cool if your just not a fan of shoe horned in and cringey sex scenes, but lots of younger folks come off as weirdly puritanically prudish to me. Why are we so much more comfortable with casual violence than casual nudity? That bothers me.

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      8 months ago

      As a Gen Z I wonder the exact same thing, and that violence seemsto be better than nudity bothes me too.

      Personally I’m perfectly fine with nudity in media be it fitting or fan service.

      If something bothers me about nude scenes or sex scenes for that matter, it isn’t about the nudity or sex in of it self, but more so that extremely shoehornd in romance and sex just because it has to happen if a male and female lead or support, spends any amount of time together.

      I really hate that sort of practice and I much more prefer a crime movie with two friends as the main characters. Over the same crime movie but now they have to be in love, because one of them happened to be a woman. Of it’s a good love story or it makes sense I buy it, but more of the time it really doesn’t.

      And as this is a very common trope in movies, this dose lead to me choosing movie that doesn’t feature romance or sex at all. Because that is easier than trying to find one that doesn’t just shoehorn the stuff in for the sack of it.

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      8 months ago

      Gen Z in the macro sense is a very prudish generation. It’s weird because they clad themselves in sex-positivity, and are conceptually pro-sexuality, but individually are often quite prudish and reserved.

      Very broad brush, of course.

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          8 months ago

          This is very different from my personal lives experience, and those of most people I know, but again my entire point here is that I don’t really know the current experience of young people.

          All I have is a really broad brush.

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        8 months ago

        I wonder to what extent that it could be an observation bias? genZ are very online and very used to having a public persona that’s safe and detached - it’s very true that online most genZ seem almost corporate, they’re less likely to say something wild than the Wendy’s lady.

        When I think of the ones I actually interact with personally very few of them are like that, obviously this is likely to be selection bias but in person or private conversation they’re very different to their social media persona.

        They’re a very nervous and shy generation because they’ve been so in the spotlight on social media, their parents are generally at least internet aware too so it’s not like the private world it was for us. I wonder if they’re just more used to guarding their statements.

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      8 months ago

      I feel like Gen Z are very conservative when it comes to sex and nudity and not just in films. The amount of swerfs and “sex positive” individuals is staggering.

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          8 months ago

          Sex-worker Exclusionary Radical Feminists. They are individuals who are against sex work and workers to the point of sexual confinement. From my experience, most are sex negative, puritanical, and end up supporting policies that increase abuse.

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            8 months ago

            Jesus christ. I’m learning that anything ending in “ERF” is probably something I’m not gonna like.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a genuinely fascinating topic and I kind of want to see if there’s any research on why this is the case.