Why is sex more illicit than violence as a form of entertainment?

Question

You see so much violence everywhere, yet one nipple pops out and it's immediately rated R.

I've seen wrestling, and that is horrifically violent for the age-appropriateness.
Yet, I can't even see breasts for the sake of art?

People can get off on violence, too.

Is there something religious that promotes this behavior/ these ideals?

You guys are helping, this is starting to make more sense.
I was looking at the subject of sex, violence and videovgames and I went to answer without an idea... I'm rarely stumped, but humankind has a tendency to confuse me by their morals and dogma.

Answer 1

i think it's because we as a people have our priorities seriously misaligned...seeing something everyone wants, does, seeks, and accepts and a normal, natural, and usually exciting aspect of life is for some reason deemed much more inappropriate in this society than seeing someone rape, torture, and murder innocent people. We pay, we PAY, to see movies in which the film-makers spend the first half of the movie making the characters seem real and likable, making them into people you like and want to spend time with, and then the second half of the movie we see them having everything they ever worked for and everyone they ever loved taken away and beaten into submission, at the very least. Kids play video games like Scarface and Grand Theft Auto, in which the main objective is to sell as many drugs and kill as many people as possible, but the second one of the characters in the game alludes to sex, THEN the parents worry...like hello? where do you think your kid came from? not from you shooting their father, that's for sure. So why then do we promote violence as something normal, acceptable, even desirable, but not sex, or even just intimacy? I personally think that we, as a people, need to be more careful with the mixed messages we are sending to our kids. If you can tell them sex is bad...whether you believe that, or just want them to have repressed psychological neurosis, then you can and should take the time to explain that the rampant violence portrayed in the media is an overexaggeration, and a crude, immature, inappropriate one at that.

c'mon people, just ask yourself, if it came down to it, which would you rather have in your living room: a loving, intimate couple (none of the lude or private parts/acts being exposed anyway, thanks to the FCC) or a bunch of drug-crazed, blood-thirsty, psychotic killers on a rampage?

then start acting like it.

Answer 2

This is a very intelligent question.

I think that perhaps, scenes of good sex (The artistic kind, as you say, lol) are often lumped into the censor books, along with bad sex (The violent sex, rape, incest, child abuse, S&M, etc.). This type of graphic sexual content certainly warrents a R or higher rating, no doubt.

What we lack today are the Censor boards, with the wisdom to differentiate the two, and to make these wise decisions about what is permissable for general viewing and what is not..

Unfortunately our society tends to take comfort in accepting the judgements of people with traditional values, rather than stop and question the status quo, like you have done with your question. This is perhaps the reason why there are so many public policy-makers, in so many powerful positions, for which they are not at all qualified. I mean, just look at the bozo we elected to the Whitehouse! Not once, but twice!!

Answer 3

Maybe it's because violence has been more accepted than sex. After all, violence is in all kinds of video games designed for kids... sex isn't. Really, it doesn't make any sense. Younger people can see people killing each other, but not an act of love? Admittedly, not all sex is an act of love, but in my opinion it's still better than violence.

Answer 4

I do not know why it is more acceptable. It is interesting from the censorship angle. The grounds on which art and entertainment is censured is on the grounds that it may harm us by coping it. SO the message from the Media is that it is OK to kill, hit etc but not to make loving love. No wonder our children are so confused

Answer 5

There's no true sex in violence, but there can be true violence in sex.

Answer 6

When a country is at war it is not practical to have little pacifist love-makers. It is better to have angry blood-thirsty barbarians.

Answer 7

kids get horny after watching sex and can masturbate..

kids dont get aroused after watching violence