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I think it depends on the storyline and how it’s depicted. There are a lot of historical movies/dramas that involve pretty brutal scenes of sexual violence because that was the reality back then and sometimes even is to this day. I don’t enjoy those scenes but I can understand why they were incorporated. I think it’s important to shed light on different forms of sexual abuse and violence and not pretend like it doesn’t exist. However I do not enjoy sexually violent scenes that have no context and are just there because some guy was getting off to the idea of them.
Sexual violence for entertainment
So, sexual violence (especially against women) is often depicted in films and TV shows. These scenes often have little to no bearing on the actual story line and are often added for entertainment/shock factor. Do you think this should be acceptable? Me personally when a sexually violent scenes starts that’s when I turn a program off. I don’t think there is any need to sensationalise or perhaps even normalise sexual violence 🤷♀️
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I get what you mean and I can’t watch the really graphic scenes but one could also argue that sexual violence is a very real, very graphic and very brutal thing and showing it the way it is might make people think.
Jo
Definitely need a trigger warning, I have watched a few films where it’s just happened unexpectedly and I don’t think that’s okay at all. I do think that it should be more implied and less graphic but that’s my own opinion.
✨H
And I do think it’s important for shows/movies to add trigger warnings at the beginning.
I’m not exactly sure what tv show I’ve seen where the sexually violent scenes weren’t a huge part of the story line. For example law and order SVU, usually the story line circles around the horrendous act and the victimComing out and telling their story or the detectives telling the story. I’d even go as far as countering your desensitizing statement and saying that it actually brings awareness of what victims actually go through without having to badger an actual victim to shed light on the rape epidemic and rape culture.
I have little to no opinion on this. It's a movie/tv show. There is nothing that can be done. You see nude women a lot and hardly anyone complains. It's just something that is shown, weather we think it's right or wrong it will be shown. I dont shut a movie off for that reason I just skip certain parts If I find them inappropriate for my liking.
La
I disagree. Actors know what role they're going to play and what they will be doing, their choice 110%
✨H
I don’t really think you can compare sexual violence and female nudity.
I never watched the 50 Shades of Grey movies, but I read the books. Were they be an example of sexualizing violence? From the books her consent was a grey area (pun intended). I think most times she did consent, other times she was mostly pressured and coerced, once or twice she stopped consenting and he might not have stopped right away. (From my memory it’s been a while since I read them.)
Wh
It seemed to me that they used his childhood as an excuse for how he treats the girl very often. I think at first when it was just a sexual relationship, I was like okay, but when they started an emotional one, he didn’t treat her how she should have been treated. I think some of it was internal, wanting to finish out the act even though she was uncomfortable or in pain because she didn’t want to “tap out” and wanted to be a good match for him. Since she was inexperienced before she jumped into the lifestyle I think some of it was her acting how she was being talked to and in a more manipulative light rather than “playing a role”. It’s been a while, I just remember being increasingly angry after each book. To each their own though 🤷🏻♀️
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I’ve seen it and I wouldn’t call it that necessarily because he’s not being violent per say and she is also a consenting adult. Is there some manipulation, debatable maybe, but a really big portion of the story line is based around him because abused as a child and then getting taken advantage of by an older woman who “teaches him” dominant and submissive roles which then becomes some what of an obsession. Obviously it is a very unhealthy portrayal of this but he never actually forced her to do anything and when she wants to stop, he does. I personally was not bothered at all by the movie or the book 🤷🏻♀️
Qu
Agreed, I read the reviews and to be honest, coercion is a big hot button because it is so glossed over. Disgusting.
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