#many sex scenes are bad and poorly framed and poorly motivated and don't serve much purpose

[thedreadvampy]

sex scene discourse is phenomenal I love it please never stop arguing about whether Anything You Don't Personally Like As A Teenager should be allowed to be in anything ever.

#some of the takes in this discourse are so aggressively You Are A Teenager #like I'm just saying sometimes i read a take in this discourse and not in like a Touch Grass way I'm just like #yeah no i totally get it i also when i was 15 didn't think this sex scene added much #however I'm currently 28 and i get different uses from the same things #like no of course sex has a different set of meanings when you're a sixteen year old and when you're a 40 year old #that doesn't mean either of them are INCORRECT meanings #but like just because a story wasn't made for you personally doesn't mean it's a bad story sorry 2 tell you #many sex scenes are bad and poorly framed and poorly motivated and don't serve much purpose #many......are not.......... #but like a thing being done badly doesn't mean it shouldn't be done at all #also mainstream film is so anodyne now anyway like it's not like it's the 70s and you see a full frontal dick in every other film #NOT THAT THAT'S THE IDEAL #but like. the degree to which some people wanna magnify 'i personally have no interest in sex' #to 'having any positive interest in sex is Filthy and Perverse and Immoral' is. unhelpful. #go hang with doctor Freud if you wanna project this hard #and like sorry again when i say this is very teenage #it's not 'oh you're just not Smart Enough' or anything it's just #stories are a way for us to reflect on the complexities and emotions of our own experience of the world #and if you're 15 tbh either you probably don't have much experience with sex or your experience has been very pressured and overwhelming #and so a sex scene carries different narrative meanings because it's reflecting a different experience base #honestly just as a sex scene is likely to carry different meanings depending on gender and sexuality and your own experience with sex #but yeah it tends to read kind of flat and unmotivated when you don't have much experience of sexuality #(and i think as an adult it's only partially to do with personal experience it's also to do with social experience #like when you're 30 you may not be sexuality active but sex plays a very different role in your life to when you're 15 like #your friends probably have sex and talk to you about it. you have probably read and seen a lot more references to sex. #even if you've never had sex or felt particularly pressured you've had years of negotiating your personal relationship to sex #and that's going to change your reading) #also I'm not saying everyone who doesn't like sex scenes is 15 I'm just saying a lot of people are and it shows #red said