Saturday, August 27, 2022

Why so many posts talking about nudity and sex scenes?

 Good question. I think it's good for me to come out clean.

Probably at the age of nine - maybe eight I was exposed to video games like Tombraider and comics like X-Men. I loved video games and comics when I was a kid - and I still do to an extent. Their depiction of women made an impression on my young mind. It would later pave the way to me being receptive to hardcore porn. I do not remember when I began watching hardcore porn, but let's say it was around the age of 10. As the years past I would eventually become a porn addict. With this addiction came other complications healthwise that would arguable jeopardize my ability to start a family. Later, I would actually spend hundreds of money buying hardcore porn. 

In my early twenties I also got into film, so much so I entertained the notion of becoming a film producer. I learned as much as could about funding and casting, the politics of it all and how movies were bought and distributed worldwide. It's an interesting business to be a part of - on the business side of things.

When nudity and sex scenes came up I was sorta kinda indifferent - and this was the best of my reactions. At worst I felt uncomfortable if not disappointed - for the actors and for the storyline. I adopted a "it depends on the context" perspective. Later did I realize that a vast majority of such acts weren't needed, at best they could've been implied, and that if the explicit sex acts and nudity were excluded the story would've been just fine if not better. But given my experience with hardcore porn as a consumer something in me thought "something is really off" about this normalization of sex and nudity on screen. I recognized that they might be more related than different and that those who partook in it weren't nearly the sophisticated "ah-tists" that they believed themselves to be.

I've seen, read and observed many things about the porn industry and what I've seen, read and observed in mainstream tv & film when nudity and sex scenes are involved is that the mainstream process is awfully similar to both softcore and hardcore film making. People who try to separate the two seem desperate at times; their arguments and talking points aren't convincing.

Given today's growing acceptance of sex workers doing OnlyFans and the willingness of young women to shed their clothes to hump their co-stars in the name of "art" and "storytelling" in mainstream tv and film once they turn 18 (if a 17 yr actresses is offered a role that does have nudity in it, some studios and directors actually wait for them to 18 specifically so they can sign the "nude is a go" clause, this would sometimes delay principle photography i.e. Thomasin Mckenzie), I will not go gently into the night and be quiet when such things happen. I feel sorry for such actresses.

Like Beckett Cook or Jospeh Scriambra, both homosexuals and atheists turned Christians, whose mission is to object the LGBT+ lifestyle; like Katy Faust, product of a same-sex household, who advocates for a two parent opposite sex household; part of my reason I bring up sex & nudity within mainstream entertainment a lot on this blog is to talk about the overlapping similarities between them and the adult industry (which includes the likes of OnlyFans and stripping).

Unlike them I am not as articulate, intelligent, patient or charitable as they are. I wish I was. But I will tell it like I see it. Kirk Cameron may not be the best actor in the world, but he has awareness that nudity and (fake) sex acts in front of the camera for "art" is just bizarre. I want to expose this bizarreness - this debauchery for all that it is in hopes to deter actors, actresses, directors, screenwriters, producers and the audience from partaking, normalizing and approving of such acts. 

The medium of tv and film has overstayed its welcome when it introduces bare skin in such a way. We as a society have given it too much power that it does not deserve - and never did deserve. 

Am I being a prude? Who cares. Okay, maybe I am. What's so bad about being a prude? Prudish? Maybe more people should be prudish. If we can question our parents, then we can question tv & film actors and the system that they earn their living from. After all, their tv shows and films are advocated for and whatever nudity and sex is depicted is defended, but not the values of our parents - our parents are finite while tv and film, just by sheer invention of a device they did not build, live on forever. 

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