To not understand what it's ok to show violence on tv but not people making love?

[Scarletohello]

Ok this was promoted by watching an episode if Famly Guy where a little girl was being kicked in the head and I know it's a cartoon, and I'm not really talking about cartoons here but it does piss me off that its ok to depict horrific violence in films tv etc but its not ok to see normal people having normal, pleasurable sex. And I'm not talking about porn here as that's filmed for the man's pleasure. I mean the kind of sex that most people have. What do other people think?

[Peacocklady]

I watched 'bird on a wire' the other day, it's an 80s film- action comedy. The gratuitous shots up Goldie Hawn's skirt while she was climbing up various things while wearing stilletoes were really, er, humiliating I would have thought, for a woman to do.

[Dragonwoman]

I don't watch the soaps so can't comment on that, but pure watershed shootings etc tend to be of the sanitised type, rather like pre-watershed sex - which isn't sex, just two people kissing under the covers.
Most people have seen a fight in real life surely? Even just a school playground scuffle? I have seen people fighting in a town centre in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. I've not seen them having sex in similar circumstances.

[Peacocklady]

I think perhaps you need to watch more pre watershed violence before you comment.

In one sentence you compare 'sanitised shootings' - an interesting concept, to sanitised sex which is kissing in bed; you then go on to compare seeing a scuffle to seeing full blown sex, surely you should compare it to seeing kissing?
You should be comparing seeing someone be decapitated to watching simulated sex if they're to have a proper comparison, and you won't normally see either in everyday life.

[Dragonwoman]

When I say sanitised shootings I mean you don't see the reality of what a gunshot does to the body, you just see someone drop and a bit of blood. I would be surprised if you saw a close up of a decapitation pre-watershed.
As for scuffles in town, some of them can be quite nasty. I've seen people bashing heads on the pavement. Plenty of blood.

[Dragonwoman]

Remember I'm talking pure watershed here. As far as I'm aware both sex and violence can be seen later on in fairly equal quantities and in fairly equal explicitness. I'm not suggesting we see the more extreme stuff in real life!

[PeriodMath]

Personally, I don't want to see either. I find violence very upsetting and object to it being offered to us as entertainment. Regarding sex, it's almost never intrinsic to the plot and is put in purely to titillate. I cringe during sex scenes!

[Ilovemyself]

Periodmath. Just out of interest what do you watch?

[ballinacup]

Personally I hate sex scenes.

Yes, I know that people have sex. And it can be implied quite easily without having to see two actors awkwardly rubbing away at each other. Besides, sex scenes are just an excuse to show a pretty actress's tits.

[Dorange]

I wonder if the OP let's her children watch her and her partner make beautiful natural sex at home.

[mrsjay]

Oh god vomit gets me every time dh and dd watch those CCTv programmes and every episode there is some drunk throwing up or rolling in their own vomit

urm if the OP did that it would be illegal

[LimburgseVlaai]

My BIL used to watch James Bond DVDs with his then 8yo son. When I went , he said: "oh but we skip past the kissy bits."

So it's OK for an 8yo to watch someone being shredded in a machine or eaten alive by a shark, but it's not OK to watch two adults kissing?????????

My BIL's response was that he found it embarrassing to watch sexy scenes with his son.