In the modern world of Mass Media an apparent problem with it is one of the biggest parts of the media, smut, violence, and drugs, plus the people who are offended by such things. Every other day it seems that there is some new "scandal" brewing in the most important place in the world, Hollywood (or maybe that was just heavy sarcasm, I'm thinking it was). Whether it being the new divorce that anyone with a life doesn't care about, or Miley Cyrus has again made her father regret the day that he spawned the attention sucker who enjoys shaking whatever that is that god gave her, and can kind of sing? Any who, the most prevalent critics of modern culture are, the previous generation. Our generation is full of sex, drugs, and violence, we will never amount to anything according to them, no one was like this back in their day, etc. In reality, what is so heinous in our time was just building on what their generation put forth. Then back in their day their parents criticized them, it's just how we humans are. But, I'll be darned if I let the generation of pot smoking hippies act all high and mighty.
In the modern era of anytime period entertain is always trying to "push the boundaries" of what is acceptable, and ends up making more things commonplace. Such as when there was once an outcry over Captain Kirk getting frisky with Lt. Uhura. But now the majority of people wouldn't even have a thought that anything was wrong, unless of course you enjoy the teachings of the pillow case brigade (Klu Klux Klan). Another example of this would be the handling of sexual scenes during the past nine decades. Gone are the days of the shared lit cigarette as the camera pans out, or fades to black.
Over time, sex and even nudity have become more prevalent in cinema, television, and the everyday lives of celebrities. The start of this evolution in the way sexuality is seen in the public eye began with the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Where women took to the streets saying that they could do what they wanted with their bodies and no one else had any say in the matter, which is completely right. This became reinforced by the historical Roe v Wade case which allowed women to have legal abortions. Because of that historic legislature, along with the introduction of birth control, sexual promiscuity exploded among the youth and hippies of that era. That attitude towards free love is shown heavily in television where there is always a character or two that seem to be in a different bed every night, or where cheating isn't seen as so shocking anymore. Also what is able to be "seen" has changed as well.
Few people are aware that in the first two decades of the nineteenth-century films were largely unregulated which lead to the production of pornography being made as if it were an ordinary movie, in order to put an end to that practice very strict censorship rules were put in place. That is why the pan out, woman in bed with a lit cigarette, and other similar tactics to imply a sexual encounter was commonplace. The rules even went so far as to say that to members of the opposite sex, even when married couldn't be shown, such as in the Brady Brunch.
I'm aware that this barely scratches the surface of this subject, which is why I'll revisit this topic later. Later gang.
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