“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”

Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by exq on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:10PM (#33112633)

Compared to what's available on TV in western Europe, Hollywood is much more reserved. They may not be puritanical, but most of the religious right in America absolutely are, and they make up a large and loud majority. Janet Jacksons tassled nipple resulted in national controversy and outrage! Laws were passed because of it. BECAUSE OF A NIPPLE! People were screeching just a few weeks ago that Disney had ~24 frames of an animated married lesbian couple kiss, as if having a kid see someone give a quick peck to their partner will turn them into a flaming homosexual or want to switch genders.

We've come a long way here in usa, but we've got a ways to go.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by 988747 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:25PM (#33112798)

Yeah, the nipple-phobia in Hollywood is really funny. Characters in Hollywood movies or TV shows somehow manage to have sexual intercourse without taking off their underwear.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by worik on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:02PM (#33113299)

It is the weirdest thing how couples, having just had sex, are wearing underwear.

There must be some code I do not know about. It is ubiquitous

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by 988747 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:09PM (#33113405)

Well, it's still better than 50s and 60s, when it seems married couples slept in separate beds (a scene from "I love Lucy"):

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/e1/f9/ace1f9037208231eebf5...

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by oska on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:42PM (#33116834)

Without meaning to undermine your point, I think a greater proportion of married couples did sleep in separate beds back then. My grandparents had separate beds.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by LouisSayers on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:09PM (#33113392)

Or not taking off their shoes...

What's with Americans wearing shoes on the bed? we're always shocked when we see that on TV.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:49PM (#33114534)

I've always wondered about this. They just get into bed, clothes and shoes and all, despite having been outside and walked over all sorts of places. Why don't they at least take their shoes off? It drives me crazy, I've never seen anybody do this.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by 988747 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:19PM (#33113526)

I think this stems from two things:

1. Americans are always on the run, living at much higher pace, ready to take off at moment's notice.

2. The US is located more to the south than Europe, so the climate is warmer and drier in most parts, so your shoes are much cleaner (no snow, no mud).

Or maybe it's just a movie convention: like they want the movie character to be able to take off without wasting time on finding their shoes. Similar thing happens with how phone calls are shown in movies: there's a very short greeting, and after the conversation is over people just hang off, no pleasantries at the end, in the interest of air time.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by birdyrooster on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:14PM (#33112693)

The government censors porn from the internet in a country in Western Europe. Oh wait nvm that isn’t Europe anymore.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by anthk on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:27PM (#33112832)

I'm from Spain. Zillions of people saw a bare nipple in the New Year's Eve late night show back in the day. That was about 35 years ago. And no one cared.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by whimsicalism on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:34PM (#33112922)

And yet you still remember it 35 years later.'

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by yellowapple on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:43PM (#33113064)

In all fairness, it was an exceptionally nice nipple.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by fsckboy on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:45PM (#33113858)

Every time a european tells me that they don't care about nudity I always ask them to strip or have their wife/gf lift up her shirt for me. They never do.

it's exhausting listening to Europeans make such a huge deal about how they don't make a big deal about sex.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by anthk on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:50PM (#33113921)

We don't care on normal contexts, such as advertisements about shampoos with nude women. We have decor too.

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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing” by fsckboy on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:11PM (#33115856)

but you don't show women's buttholes in advertising, so you draw a line one place; we draw the line another place. .But if you don't care about it and it's no big deal, then why is it such a big deal not to see nipples, it's like you have this need to see women's nipples or there's something wrong. In actuality, I think you have a need to act like and say that you don't think it's a big deal; but the European porn and titillation industry is quite robust, so the prurient interest is there.

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