Is Society Afraid of Sexuality?

 
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Question in the title is pretty straight forward: Is society generally afraid of sexuality/sex/etc?

Disclosure: The topic and examples for this thread came from this video, and I'm curious as to what you all think:

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Going to use Miley Cyrus as an example (Cause who doesn't love a celebrity as a debate example) - throughout her recent remolding of her image, plenty of people have screamed about how her image is not friendly for children, how she is no longer a decent role model, blah blah blah.

At the same time, we have Taylor Swift winning awards for videos featuring weaponry and fights, and almost everyone enjoys a movie about violence - to the point that we seem to glorify that, over a movie where there may be nudity (Heaven forbid...)

I dunno, I'm tired and probably rambling, but just curious as to your thoughts?


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I agree completely. People in our society are way too stuck up about sex and promiscuity.


 
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Humans are innately violent, so I'm not surprised we have a certain bias towards depictions of violence.



 
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I don't fear sexuality. I hate it. Primarily for incentivizing procreation, and brainwashing people into thinking sex is this glorious thing. Which, feel free to believe that, but every once in awhile, you should be able to throw that filthy monkey off of your back and say, "Yeah, this is all kinda filthy and gross, to be honest."

there's a reason pornography immediately becomes repulsive to most people as soon they're finished with it
Last Edit: September 14, 2015, 09:19:39 PM by Fuddy-duddy


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I would say subconsciously no, as we use a lot of sexually titillating imagery in the media to sell just about anything.

It is peculiar however, that when it's explicitly brought up a lot of people find it uncomfortable to talk about, despite it being inadvertently plastered in just about every aspect of society.

I guess it has to be subtle in order for it to be acceptable for some odd reason.
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It is peculiar however, that when it's explicitly brought up a lot of people find it uncomfortable to talk about, despite it being inadvertently plastered in just about every aspect of society.
That does piss me off. In America, it's the point where bringing sex up anywhereโ€”even with your friends, depending on who they areโ€”it's considered "indecent". Fuck that shit.


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Which, feel free to believe that, but every once in awhile, you should be able to throw that filthy monkey off of your back and say, "Yeah, this is all kinda filthy and gross, to be honest."
It's also really fun so I don't care. Eating is also a horrendously disgusting process when you get down to the crude mechanisms that are allowing it to happen, but I still like to eat tasty food. If you reword or break apart concepts and actions to their base components, you can basically make anything sound like shit.
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Eating is also a horrendously disgusting process when you get down to the crude mechanisms that are allowing it to happen, but I still like to eat tasty food. If you reword or break apart concepts and actions to their base components, you can basically make anything sound like shit.
Exactly. Because everything IS shit. Eating is terrible, too, I agree. Do you think I enjoy being a vegan?


 
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We definitely are when women can't walk around without a shirt on just like men. It's OK or us to do it but it's something else when a female does it due to a retarded double slandered. I know breasts are not sexual but for some odd reason we treat them that.
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Eating is also a horrendously disgusting process when you get down to the crude mechanisms that are allowing it to happen, but I still like to eat tasty food. If you reword or break apart concepts and actions to their base components, you can basically make anything sound like shit.
Exactly. Because everything IS shit. Eating is terrible, too, I agree. Do you think I enjoy being a vegan?
No, Verb, everything is not shit. There is, in fact, pleasure to be found in life sometimes.


 
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No, Verb, everything is not shit. There is, in fact, pleasure to be found in life sometimes.
That doesn't mean everything isn't shitโ€”we're just great at distracting ourselves. And how much of that pleasure is actually rational or meaningful, anyway? MOST people's pleasure is revolved around either drugs, alcohol, sex, or some combination of the three. Taking risks.


 
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We definitely are when women can't walk around without a shirt on just like men. It's OK or us to do it but it's something else when a female does it due to a retarded double slandered. I know breasts are not sexual but for some odd reason we treat them that.
Breasts are definitely sexual. There are erogenous zones located on both male and female breasts, specifically the nipples. That means it feels good when you, you know, fondle them.

I hate men who say this and I hate women who say this.
"Women should be able to go out topless like men!"

Guys: Oh, yeah, sure. Great idea. I'm sure you're not just saying that because you want to see tits in public at all.
Girls: Oh, yeah, sure. Great idea. Go out and be topless, then, if it's not a big deal... You're not gonna? That's what I thought.
Last Edit: September 15, 2015, 08:03:34 AM by Fuddy-duddy


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We simultaneously have a very sexualized culture and one that is strangely embarrassed of it.

Pornography is a good example; basically everyone uses it, but it's incredibly taboo to talk about it in most circles.


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No, Verb, everything is not shit. There is, in fact, pleasure to be found in life sometimes.
That doesn't mean everything isn't shitโ€”we're just great at distracting ourselves. And how much of that pleasure is actually rational or meaningful, anyway? MOST people's pleasure is revolved around either drugs, alcohol, sex, or some combination of the three. Taking risks.
There are good and bad attributes to basically every activity we tend to engage in. The important thing is actively trying to balance out or reverse whatever minutely negative consequence a "Fun" activity might have. To say that "Most" people's pleasure is revolved around the three things you listed is pretty inaccurate. People entertain themselves in significantly broader ways, and with a much greater frequency. You just like to pick apart the negatives much more than the positives.


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I do love me some titties, honestly.


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It's a subject I actively avoid anyway.


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I'm gonna go with Freud here and say that it's all about dicks and shamefully wanting to have sex with your mother, because that's the most entertaining answer I can think of.


 
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I have no aversion to sexuality (other than what it tries to encourage: sex, and by extension, childbirth). Probably because of the way I was raised; my parents were very open about that sort of thing.

I slowly see it becoming less indecent to discuss sex, though.


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I'm gonna go with Freud here and say that it's all about dicks and shamefully wanting to have sex with your mother, because that's the most entertaining answer I can think of.
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"Violence" depicted in blockbuster films is so mundane it's the equivalent of clothed dry humping. When most movies use jump-cuts to instantly look away from people getting shot and instantly falling off screen, it gives the the viewer much less time to react and feel the weight of the event (especially considering they're just joe-schmoes dying, and when a main character dies they usually only have a trickle of blood coming out their nose as they whisper off shitty dialogue then close their eyes peacefully).

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PG-13 movie and this scene is basically just mentally undressing someone.

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No one sits their kid down in front of this because guess what? Violence can be variably graphic just as sexual themes can be.
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Sexuality is weird around family or children.  Besides Jim, who wants to be turned on around their mother, or the rest of the family?   Or have their family aroused around them? 


 
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"Violence" depicted in blockbuster films is so mundane it's the equivalent of clothed dry humping. When most movies use jump-cuts to instantly look away from people getting shot and instantly falling off screen, it gives the the viewer much less time to react and feel the weight of the event (especially considering they're just joe-schmoes dying, and when a main character dies they usually only have a trickle of blood coming out their nose as they whisper off shitty dialogue then close their eyes peacefully).

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PG-13 movie and this scene is basically just an mentally undressing someone.

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No one sits their kid down in front of this because guess what? Violence can be variably graphic just as sexual themes can be.
Well you see, can I just say, that I am fucking triggered by her talking about a holly double pumper on a fuel injected motor... or is that some really weird side draft system... either way, everything she does is wrong.
If I have a kid, he's watching Private Ryan, Das Boot, Downfall, A Bridge too Far, Flags of our Fathers, Die Brรผcke, and the Beast by the time he's twelve.
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"Violence" depicted in blockbuster films is so mundane it's the equivalent of clothed dry humping. When most movies use jump-cuts to instantly look away from people getting shot and instantly falling off screen, it gives the the viewer much less time to react and feel the weight of the event (especially considering they're just joe-schmoes dying, and when a main character dies they usually only have a trickle of blood coming out their nose as they whisper off shitty dialogue then close their eyes peacefully).

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PG-13 movie and this scene is basically just an mentally undressing someone.

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No one sits their kid down in front of this because guess what? Violence can be variably graphic just as sexual themes can be.
Well you see, can I just say, that I am fucking triggered by her talking about a holly double pumper on a fuel injected motor... or is that some really weird side draft system... either way, everything she does is wrong.
If I have a kid, he's watching Private Ryan, Das Boot, Downfall, A Bridge too Far, Flags of our Fathers, Die Brรผcke, and the Beast by the time he's twelve.
Well yeah, kids see that shit.
Kids also see porn before they're 12 too.


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I neither fear, nor despise.
We simultaneously have a very sexualized culture and one that is strangely embarrassed of it.

Pornography is a good example; basically everyone uses it, but it's incredibly taboo to talk about it in most circles.

As long as nobody knows you are doing it, it's ok right?

.....right?


But if people find out, suddenly you are a bad person even though they themself do it too.