It’s especially odd given the scenes depict monogamous people in love having completely vanilla sex. It gets less vanilla later but he didn’t see that.
If that isn’t wholesome sex then there is no wholesome sex.
I remember thinking Ellen Page was cute in Juno and googling to find out whether I was a pedophile or not. It went fine. A really shocking moment for me was googling Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver which I saw for the first time recently, like I was aware watching it that she was a teenager but I was like “Is she even an adult here? google I mean she’s definitely much older than they’re portra… OH MY GOD”. I just couldn’t believe they would cast a 12 year old in that role. I feel like there’s no way that could happen these days.
I think to put my finger on what’s weird here, at the risk of seeming like I’m picking on King_of_NY, is this implicit idea that one must either be attracted or repulsed by sex scenes. Like that’s the assumption in his posting, that if you don’t peace out because you don’t want to watch these young people fuck, it means you’re feverishly jacking off imagining inserting yourself, pun intended, into the scene. It reflects America’s cultural discomfort with sex I think. It’s possible to watch sex in the same way one watches violence, neither so repulsed by it that one has to stop watching, nor so attracted that one is imagining committing the violence.
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Wait until KONY finds out you can watch actual people having actual sex on the internet right now on slightly more than one website!
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Not interested in the show and don’t really care whether or not it was appropriate, but the apparent age of the character matters more than the actual age of the actor. “Technically she was old enough” is super creepy and not a winning argument.
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I feel most comfortable with an 85-year-old playing the role of a sexy teen.
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I recommend Steve Buscemi.
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They are adults portraying late teenagers in their final year of school. They are something like 17 or 18 in the show’s first couple episodes then off to college by episode 3.
Again, the assumption buried in here is that it’s impossible to watch young people having sex without somehow spontaneously becoming a pedophile. I can understand how watching actual young people actually having sex would give rise to an uncomfortable feeling of intruding, and I can understand that it’s creepy to seek out such scenes and post on the Mr Skin forums about them. What I don’t get is why I can’t watch scenes of young characters having sex and just enjoy them as part of this dramatization of a fictional story I am enjoying.
Geewhysee posted the other day about witnessing a mangled corpse in a car accident enroute home and everyone was like “wow, how awful, traumatic” and rightfully so. Yet we all see far worse violence and horror portrayed on screen on a daily basis. How come this fictional distancing applies to violence but not to sex, even sex between young characters?
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Thanks for the recommendation, I’m looking forward to this.
My long time favorite film (well, miniseries technically) about relationships is Scenes from a Marriage. Its pretty dated now though. But I still appreciate that they made a really sincere and unflinching film about what a lot of real marriages are like.
Ding ding ding.
You really want good but dated, Netflix is currently streaming The Story of Us. Bruce Willis delivers the performance of his career.
“And is that your intention?”
Michelle Pfieffer a knockout as well.
I love scenes from a marriage!
Y’all emoing out up in here when Lovecraft Country is about to redefine GOAT
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Yes, there is no way that could happen these days, or Jenny Agutter’s full frontals as a mid-teen in Walkabout, which bizarrely by today’s standards went almost without comment at the time (1970 ish) I believe.
Almost as weird is that it’s taken you so long to see such a brilliant and famous film.
I loved the first episode. Trying to moderate expectations.
I’m enjoying Perry Mason.
I regret watching Perry Mason sadly. Same with Giri/Haji. Both start well and fall off significantly.
watched first EP as well, really enjoyed it.
I’m very much looking forward to Lovecraft Country, just haven’t gotten to it yet. My wife and I have finally gotten into Narcos. We’re toward the end of Season 2. One thing that I really like about this show is that they humanize some of the bad guys. Not that I empathize with Escobar or anything, but it makes the character more interesting.