I am not a teen.

  • shoulderoforion
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    757 hours ago

    Actual no holds barred sex of every sort you wish to see, as often as you wish to see it, a click away on the interwebz, the titillation found by past generations in R rated movies and late night Television, no longer computes, and is wholly unnecessary

    • @[email protected]
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      195 hours ago

      Yea that was my thought too. When I was a teen we had one PC and it was in a shared room. Had to rely on the TV for jerk off material. These days everyone has the whole internet in their pocket. TV is for watching good stories, they can skip the sex scenes.

    • @zoostation
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      -165 hours ago

      Writing a story and having to make my characters not want to have sex because of the existence of an unrelated industry outside the context of their universe.

      Striking out any gambling references in my stories because of the rise of online gambling.

      Then I realize I’ve stupidly written scenes where my characters eat, having forgotten like a stupid hack how many restaurants there are in the real world.

      • @SkybreakerEngineer
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        245 hours ago

        Dude, there’s a difference between romance and full-on extended sex scenes. Fade to black and get on with the plot.

        • @zoostation
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          94 hours ago

          The sex scenes that most mainstream dramas have traditionally had are brief and not explicit.

      • shoulderoforion
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        195 hours ago

        If that’s an example of your writing, you’ve got much larger problems, my friend

      • @almar_quigley
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        25 hours ago

        Do you characters take big stinky poops? Because that’s a real thing too. Do they pop pimples on their body or on their partners? The list goes on. There’s an audience for everything, but it’s pretty obvious sex isn’t as much of a driver for movies anymore.

        • @zoostation
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          04 hours ago

          Sex is an important part of one’s life, bowel movements aren’t. (Hopefully)

          • @almar_quigley
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            74 hours ago

            In what respect? I feel confident in saying many if not most people take some pleasure in a good poop. Perhaps not as much as having sex but the point remains in a critical part of life.

            • @zoostation
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              54 hours ago

              Drama is largely about character relationships and sex is a part of that. There’s rarely any drama to our necessary biological functions. Pooping can be part of a story’s plot like sex, just much less often.

            • @zoostation
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              44 hours ago

              They’re more biologically necessary. They are less important to storytelling.