I wish this thread was in Eyes on Each Other. It probably belongs there.

Anyway, I will pick 'movies' as my genre of choice for discussion. I am strongly opposed to the way sex is depicted in movies. I am strongly opposed to nearly all sexual references in movies. I am in favor of violence, though.

Why? Well, that's a complicated answer. But mostly, sex in media creates sexual expectations among people and reminds them of their insecurities very deeply in ways that violence simply doesn't. Extreme violence is (for most people) far removed from reality. If I see a person's arm chopped off by a sword, I'm not going to have any negative associations with my real life, and I'm not going to think chopping someone's arm off is suddenly okay. (and neither would most people).

However, if most people see someone sleeping around in a movie, it will do several things: it will make them feel jealous and inadequate, because they get to sleep around and it's usually with people who are much more attractive and scripted than real people. It doesn't ever show all the complications. I am reasonably certain that 95% of people feel this way to some varying degree when they see other people getting to engage in sexual activities of any kind.

Also, it normalizes sexual misbehavior in a way that extreme violence can't really be normalized. This is connected to my first point.

Of course, my position is predicated on my beliefs about what constitutes acceptable sexual behavior in the first place, and since no one ever agrees with me there, I don't expect any of you to agree with me here, either.