Let's talk about all the good things and the bad things about sex on-screen. The era of the erotic thriller promised us something exciting about watching films that were “made for adults,” asking us to watch late at night, away from everyone else because this was going to be sensual. But as we look at sex in cinema, the erotic air has gone stale. In an interview with Variety, Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven noted that American culture has taken a “general shift towards Puritanism” in cinema and everyday life. Verhoeven isn’t the only one who noticed the lack of sex in cinema. John Cameron Mitchell, whose movie Shortbus captured audiences with its depictions of unsimulated sex, declared “a certain sex panic in the air,” while Playboy writer Kate Hagen reports that the percentage of feature-length films depicting sex is at its lowest point since the 1960s. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 2 March, 2022