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#9  Violence is worse, as we should have sex daily as adults, just not in public displays. To me, violence is more disturbing, but apparently in North America, violence is more acceptable, both in art and entertainment. While I believe that this may be due to the cultural beginnings of our countries, it still does not make much sense.. |
04-09-2008, 10:34 PM
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 | I wish this thread was in Eyes on Each Other. It probably belongs there. Anyway, I will pick 'movies' as my genre of choice for discussion. I am strongly opposed to the way sex is depicted in movies. I am strongly opposed to nearly all sexual references in movies. I am in favor of violence, though. Why? Well, that's a complicated answer. But mostly, sex in media creates sexual expectations among people and reminds them of their insecurities very deeply in ways that violence simply doesn't. Extreme violence is (for most people) far removed from reality. If I see a person's arm chopped off by a sword, I'm not going to have any negative associations with my real life, and I'm not going to think chopping someone's arm off is suddenly okay. (and neither would most people). However, if most people see someone sleeping around in a movie, it will do several things: it will make them feel jealous and inadequate, because they get to sleep around and it's usually with people who are much more attractive and scripted than real people. It doesn't ever show all the complications. I am reasonably certain that 95% of people feel this way to some varying degree when they see other people getting to engage in sexual activities of any kind. Also, it normalizes sexual misbehavior in a way that extreme violence can't really be normalized. This is connected to my first point. Of course, my position is predicated on my beliefs about what constitutes acceptable sexual behavior in the first place, and since no one ever agrees with me there, I don't expect any of you to agree with me here, either. |
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04-10-2008, 10:02 AM
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 | Wow, I never really thought of it that way (in terms of comparing the two). The more I think about it, the more I think you might be onto something. |
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04-11-2008, 10:21 AM
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| Site Staff  | On the face of it, I would say that the violence is 'worse' because it's the more graphically disturbing and the more destructive of the two. However, I would agree with Spuuky on the point of the portrayal of sex in the media can either misrepresent things entirely or have the potential to make people feel inadequate. On that basis, I think that the protrayal of sex is much more relevant to most human beings in that most of them can probably relate to it and have more personal feelings towards it, but in terms of how it's actually presented, I would say that the violence is worse. Despite the fact that it is more detached from reality, I think the main aim of violence is to be destructive and often disturbing (as in many horror films, for instance) whereas sex itself can presented in a number of ways, but there is the ability for sex to represented as the coming together of two people in love and is very much constructive rather than destructive in a relationship. |
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04-11-2008, 10:26 AM
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 | To be perfectly honest, I have never fully understood the general population's concerns and reactions with sex, gore, language, etc... It's not shocking, truly, it is not. We are a culture in which we are steeped in random, pervasive images of nigh all and everything, and so to react as we do to certain things makes me light bit confused. |
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04-11-2008, 10:34 AM
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 | I agree. It's perfectly fine when they show wounded people from war zones or something like that in the news (prime time and everything).. Y'know, people with blood all over, and an arm missing or something like that, but as soon as a violent movie/video game/whatever comes around it's the reason for all the High School shootings and whatnot. People really need to take a chill pill. |
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04-11-2008, 10:21 PM
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