To be fair, studios shoehorn sex and romance into movies, often to the detriment of the story.
I’ve always hated it. If I want to watch sex scenes I’ll just watch porn and not some softcore Hollywood garbage. It adds nothing to the movie/show. Just makes it awkward when you watch it with your kids or parents.
Honestly, it makes sense to me that the generations that grew up with the internet and basically limitless access to porn would be less interested in gratuitous sex in the rest of their media. They don’t know what it’s like to rewind three seconds of a tape over and over because of a single out of focus boob, or making do with the lingerie section of the sears catalog. They don’t have that any port in a storm mindset.
In the 80’ies and 90’ies there was a mandatory sex scene in any action movie. I feel those kinda went away in the aughts. Now that we need at leas one major gay or bi or trans character in everything we have at least one scene of someone kissing someone of their own gender, often followed by cuddling.
So not only did they bring back sex or at least a big focus on people making out, but they’re doing it at a time when TVs have grown a LOT! Filling the frame with a kiss was sort of ok on a 24" screen, but having my 77" TV portray lips on lips, corner to corner is just not something I need for every single piece of modern media I’m trying to enjoy!
If it makes sense in the story, that’s alright, but don’t do it because you have two hot actors you want to watch pretend smash just because they’re hot.
This isn’t the 80s where an R rating was an obligation for some TnA.
