NEWS: Sex Is Too Safe In The Movies

CULTURE: Sex Is Too Safe In The Movies

Shock! Having tried to remove cigarettes from the movies, now medical researchers have found that no characters in films stop to consider safe sex before they rip each other's clothes off.

Well, the formers probably true but unwanted pregnancy has been at least the b-plot of many a movie. Nonetheless, researchers kept watching sex scenes in movies to look for use of protective aids, and found the only one that mentioned it was Pretty Woman.

Our favourite spy, James Bond does not escape either:

I find that pretty shocking: Given they filmed the shaving scene for that movie at least twice to plug two different electric shaver manufacturers for different regions, you'd have thought they'd have been a plug for Durex in there.

So if directors start putting in shots of the actors cock with a rubber on it, will the censors look the other way and let the R rating stand?

They had to cut the scene in Basic Instinct when they went and got tested for AIDS... it's in the deleted scenes on the DVD...

Umm, they hardly* ever discuss contraceptives in hardcore pornography, they want them to do it in Hollywood?


*I say hardly ever because lots of mainstream porn uses them, even less discuss it, and a significant % of films do not use them.

Hardly anyone ever goes to the bathroom either. I don't hear medical researchers worried about the dangers of Encopresis.

found the perfect way to fund a MOVIE! SWOOOOOOOOON!

Let's build a really shitty script and then get sponsorship from beginning a bidding war between Trojan and Durex! And we can have rappers in the movie!

I'll be quiet now.

They also never seem to have morning breath, whiskey dick or genital warts (unless they are for comedic value) but you don't see many people bitching for realism there.

If anyone actually thinks sex works exactly how it does in the movies they are in for a serious suprise.

Weird ? I never knew Sharon Stone's minge was supposed to be part of my school's curriculum.

funny did this so called academics who sit in theere cushy offices locked away from reality note that in most sex scenes or post sex scenes they are still clothed partly now i dont know about the rest of you but if im actually getting into bed for a fuck i get naked the other thing is how often do you fuck someone only to have them go all coy and shy on you and cover up afterwards i no i never have as its a bit late buy then.

Have the authors of this story ever seen a movie with a sex scene? For the most part, they're shown in a montage, so we don't go straight from beginning to end. So I think you can assume that a condom is being put on somewhere, if you wish. I would find sticking in a shot where one of the partners holds up the condom and says "Hey, look folks, we're playing safe, and so should you!" would really detract from things.

That said, 9 Songs does make a point of showing that the male character is using condoms, but what I said above doesn't apply there.

there was a whole movie about this guy who gets his chance to fuck this girl, but he doesn't have a condom, and he goes on a wacky adventure to get one. trojan war.

Heck, although I don't know if I've noticed it in any movies, I know condoms have been something of a plot point in at least one TV series I've watched (for the record: Nip/Tuck season 1. At one point the dad gives his son a condom so as to practice safe sex when he finally does it with his girlfriend.).

um, aren't most of the movies in which people are having rated R (as in, 17) and therefore can it perhaps be assumed that the audience knows about safe sex already?

maybe rather than spending money on this kind of research/campaigning to fix it we should be more concerned about more/better free clinics, and better sex education in schools?

Yes, yes, because if there's one thing that would have ruined the last couple James Bond films, it would have been condom use.

GOOD! The last thing I want to see in movies is realism.

get Ja Rule AND LL Cool J

it'll be the best movie ever

Seriously, the last thing we need is for movies to try to be realistic. As it is, some of the less intelligent members of the species already think that what happens in movies can actually happen in real life. If we make them more realistic, these idiots will be even more convinced. "Well, he used a condom, so I bet I can jump my car from one parking garage to another like in Transporter 2!!!"

It's too bad they didn't watch "Friday the Thirteenth Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell." I was amazed that they bothered scripting the characters making out, discussing safe sex, looking for the condom, finding it, then deciding not to use it. Not only is it unsafe, but a damn waste of screentime to boot! (Unlike the rest of the film which is totally necessary.)

I say safe sex in movies!!!


Meanwhile, us real people won't use it, all fuck each other and die... but the fictitious characters will be safe.

In the Buffy episode Where The Wild Things Are, there was a shot of Riley picking up a condom before screwing Buffy.


Everyone said it was the worst episode evar.

Bah. *shakes fist at STDs* I can't think of a movie where a condom was used. Ohhh wait, this movie with Kirsten Dunst in it. She's a big ho and wants to fuck this mexican guy. I think it was a good movie. He was all responsible and smart and she was a rich nasty whore. I'm drunk

Yeah, I reckon if a film's gonna be a whore to product placement anyway, then they should also be a whore to public awareness, sort of like a payback for selling out in the first place.

movies are meant to be a distraction from reality for a little while. now they want to turn movies into what the sad state of television has become....."reality TV".

i don't want that shit. when i watch a movie, i want things to be "not quite real". just because i watch it, doesn't mean i'm all of a sudden gonna go try to re-enact it, thinking that it's really possible. and although there are people who will try to do so, they have bigger problems to begin with, and "product placement" isn't going to help that.