{"id":24675,"date":"2019-06-14T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24675"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:17:10","slug":"not-mentioned-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/not-mentioned-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Mentioned: The Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2019\/06\/13\/less-is-more\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kim du Toit<\/a> links to a story on SFGate with the provocative title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/article\/Sex-is-disappearing-from-the-big-screen-and-it-s-13958705.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it&#8217;s making movies less pleasurable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it poses an interesting theory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We know why. With the onset of internet porn, viewers looking for vicarious thrills had instant access to a cheap, private universe of polymorphous gratification. While Hollywood embraced a business model centered around wholesome baby-boomer nostalgia and PG-13 franchises, cable television and streaming services found their own niche, engaging in &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;-like one-up-manship in violence, profanity &#8211; and sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve posited my theory before, but in case I haven&#8217;t: You know why Hollywood doesn&#8217;t put sex scenes in movies any more or even the formerly obligatory woman&#8217;s bare chest in comedies?<\/p>\n<p><em>Overseas markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cultures or gatekeepers of culture in other parts of the world don&#8217;t want that.  So nobody gets it.<\/p>\n<p>Like Kim, I&#8217;m not really mourning the loss.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the gloss over the other cultures&#8217; censors was intentional or thoughtless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit links to a story on SFGate with the provocative title Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it&#8217;s making movies less pleasurable. And it poses an interesting theory: We know why. With the onset of internet porn, viewers looking for vicarious thrills had instant access to a cheap, private universe of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24676,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions\/24676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}