Rated R movies?

Question

Why is it that people will take their kids to see Rated R movies if all it is is people getting their heads cut off, zombies eating people, people getting tortured, but when it comes to seeing one boob, parents freak out and say OH NO, THERES NO WAY MY KID IS SEEING THAT. Does anyone agree with me?

Answer 1

I could not agree more. A breast/penis is a human body part. No different from an arm or an ear. But somehow, if it's one of a select few, it's dirty and inappropriate. Graphic violence is much worst to me than naked people.

Answer 2

It's a suggestion not a hard fast rule. It's a personal decision, but most do try to follow it. The reason for it is we are encouraged to keep our minds and thoughts clean. It's a scientific fact that everything we see, hear etc in this life is stored somewhere in our minds. No matter what it is stored there even if you don't think it is, and this effects your mind because you never know when those impure or violent etc. thoughts are going to re appear. There are some things in life that are just not necessary to see. I can tell you that I have seen a number of R rated movies, and some even PG-13 with gory scenes that I really wish I hadn't seen. Sometimes something will me remind me of it, and it comes back involuntarily. Hope that helped answer your questions :) P.s. I can't think of one R rated movie that didn't have a reason to be a R rated movie. The thing is that we become so desensitized to things because our lives are so saturated with things that they don't seem so bad anymore. Which is another reason that we are encouraged not to watch inappropriate or questionable things. When you are told over and over that this "thing" (whatever it might be) isn't as bad, you start to believe it's not bad. Think about the difference in what is acceptable from 10 years ago vs now. There is stuff in movies now that is accepted as normal stuff that wouldn't have even been allowed in a movie 10 years ago. Desensitize. It's gradual and you don't even notice it. It's like the story with boiling a frog. Put a frog in boiling water and it will jump out. Put it in cold water and then boil it slowly, it will stay in and boil itself. The media is like a cold pot boiling us until we don't notice it anymore :) (for lack of a better example :)

Answer 3

That is why R rated movies have an age beside it 18 years old. I never take my son to a R rated movie. He goes to G. He is 5 1/2.

Answer 4

Parents are simply more alright with their kids seeing gore and such because they can say "Little Timmy, little Suzie, that's all fake." But nudity (even in its simplest form) brings about thoughts of sex, and no one wants their kids thinking about that for as long as possible.
Also, scaring kids has been a tradition for... well, ever. Kids tell eachother ghost stories, then they see the USA edit of Nightmare on Elm Street, then they convince their parent's that letting them stay up to watch Saw 3 isn't gonna scare them... Then they become horror/gore fanatics like me. ^_^
I'm not saying it's right.... I don't think any child under the age of 12 should be allowed to watch an unedited version of a truly terrifying movie. Thanks to my dad letting me watch Stephen King's It at the age of 8, I am still scared of both sewer drains and clowns. But you are right that parents whole let their kids watch someone getting gutted should lighten up on them seeing a full minute of breasts.

Answer 5

In our American culture violence is perfectly acceptable. We can see it on TV all the time in shows and in coverage of the war in Iraq. Violence has become entertainment. Sex, on the other hand, is somehow forbidden. I think it's because people are afraid that if little Johnny sees a boob he'll be scarred for life. Actually, it's the violence little Johnny sees all the time that can cause problems. Nobody ever died of seeing a breast or a penis.

Answer 6

Id rather have a kid see one boob than a murder movie. I don't know why that is that way, my parents did that too, it was okay for us to watch horror movies but south park heavens no. I guess they see horror movies as being fake and naughty scenes as my child will like it and then ask girls or guys to see more?

Answer 7

Because people believe that sex is real and "naughty" or "shameful", but that the violence in movies isn't real so it doesn't matter. I understand monitoring what your child watches-I do-but if your child is old enough to see and understand violence in a movie, then they are old enough to see and understand things that are sexual.

I do feel really bad for people whose parents tell them that sex is bad or something to be embarassed about though-that will screw them up more than watching 1000 horror movies!

Answer 8

Because people are not as open to nudity as they are to the possibility their child might like the movies and eventually become serial killers LOL JK. maybe they couldn't find a sitter and they really wanted to see the movie themselves.

Answer 9

I agree with you. I think that the human body is more appropriate than allowing children to see people getting slaughtered. Parents just want to shelter their kids from sexual content, but as to why they don't want to shelter them from watching torturous murders, is beyond me.

Answer 10

I agree. Or a naughty word, heaven forbid! I just love the version of "Scarface" with the bad words bleeped out. Uh-huh, like that's really going to make it a family movie.