Hi Coug,
I can only speak for my own family and some of my friends, but I know we tried not to let our young children see realistic (graphic) violent movies any more than we let them see graphic sex. And we still refuse to let Ammo go see some things, particularly if sex and violence are combined! (However, we all loved Grosse Pointe Blank; we are big John Cusack fans.)
Sex is certainly not bad!!!! But there is very little (how can I put this without sounding like Tipper again!) beautiful, moral, committed, loving sex in movies today. We have tried hard to teach our boys that women are not objects, that sex is not something to be indulged in because you have an urge, and that with sex comes commitment and a great deal of responsibility. Sex is far more complicated an issue for teens--- more relevant, more immediate in their lives, than war and violence, which still have an aura of unreality to them. Perhaps that's why it seems that people object to sex more in movies. It's a harder issue to deal with in raising children. Much easier to say "Killing is bad."
I am opposed to those slasher kinds of horror movies, and until this past year Ammo hadn't seen them. In six months he can see anything he wants, so really my time as censor is over.
As for good old fashioned horror movies, which he adores, there is little reality to zombies, and mummies, and wolfmen and draculas so I don't think it ever gets into his life in any kind of influential way.
Sex is pleasurable, but for me, it is an act with moral implications. ANd these are often ignored and flat out ridiculed in today's modern movie culture. THAT is what I object to. |
