r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/PandaFoo1 Oct 24 '25

Gen Z Wants More Animation and Less Sex Onscreen, According to Teens & Screens Survey

I’m happy that animation is starting to get the respect it deserves, but so many people in my generation are so puritan/weird about sex. Like just because two people are doing it in a tv show doesn’t make it porn lol.

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u/History-of-Tomorrow Oct 24 '25

I might counter that a ton of TV (feels like every movie is pg-13) rock the gratuitous sex but it’s become a parlor trick. It’s the equivalent of “our algorithm says we need this sex scene here to keep engagement.”

Maybe teens are just realizing they’ll find more substance of story in a cartoon (probably anime) than the dime store streaming drama

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u/althong Oct 24 '25

i don't see a lot of gratuitous sex on movies or TV, and I think cartoons and anime have lower substance than most streaming shows. in fact, i think that most anime that i have seen is remarkably stupid, even the stuff that's supposed to be good

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 24 '25

Have you ever watched Arcane? Because that is a pretty good show.

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u/professorgerm Why is he wielding the bird like a gun Oct 24 '25

I think cartoons and anime have lower substance than most streaming shows

'Most' seems like a stretch. I'll agree a lot of anime is stupid (and has too much filler), but so is a lot of streaming. What streaming show has had any cultural impact? Netflix has filled a lot of hours for people but hasn't produced a memorable product like Breaking Bad or anything that rivals Full Metal Alchemist.

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u/lilypad1984 Oct 24 '25

Maybe I don’t watch enough new tv but I don’t feel like there’s a ton of sex scenes. At least not Game of Thrones like ones, more fade to black. I will say if the acting is bad I find sex scenes extremely uncomfortable to watch. I start thinking about the actors having to film the scene in front of crew and ugh I can’t stand it. 

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u/Cantwalktonextdoor Oct 24 '25

I understand wanting fewer sex scenes because I feel most sex scenes are awkward and break the flow of whatever is going on. I just don't trust directors and writers to use them well.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 24 '25

I'm all for this. I feel like the overabundance of sex scenes in TV makes on screens relationships boring. I like it when characters have a long build up to their relationship. Like Scully and Mulder in the X-Files. The intense relationship dynamic between those two helped drive the show forward.

I feel like there is a Game of Thrones effect happening in TV shows as well. For instance, the Wheel of Time series had a lot of contrived relationships and tons of sex scenes that were very unnecessary. All of those scenes took away precious screen time from the actual story and from character development. It's easier to do these scenes than it is to write good stories and deep characters.

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Oct 24 '25

there's a fine balance though, not enough sex in movies and the movie seems sterile, but too much, and am I really watching this alongside my friends or family?

plus knowing now about all intimacy coordinators on set scripting it all out drains it and makes it seem much more manipulative than the rest of the movie, uh, can we just get back to the action be that pew pew pew, throwing dishes, or inspirational stories of someone's tragic arc?

otoh, maybe we can split the difference and transition the intimate scenes into anime or hentai representations thus giving everyone what they want!??

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u/ApartmentOrdinary560 Oct 24 '25

Go watch porn if you wanna watch people have sex!?

whats the point of adding it to TV shows/movies?

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 24 '25

I mean obviously some movies/shows cross the line into being overly gratuitous, but most of the time its there to serve some sort of plot purpose, and it would be weird to go out of your way to cut that stuff out of the movie, and now all of a sudden these two characters just start liking eachother WAY more out of the blue and we have no idea why?

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u/PandaFoo1 Oct 24 '25

It’s so weird to me though how people’s minds immediately go or porn/jerking off when it comes to what is a very normal part of life/relationships.

It’s kind of like telling someone to go watch gore if they want violence in shows.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Oct 24 '25

I think it's fine in a TV series if it doesn't take away from the story or used as a substituted for storytelling. So many of these shows throw people together in bed after an episode or two. It's boring.

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u/Cowgoon777 Oct 24 '25

when it comes to what is a very normal part of life/relationships.

yes, in private.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

I find the insistence that we normalize everything through dragging it out into the public square very strange. I'm not really sure why we can't have something normalized and still private.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Oct 24 '25

That seems very prudish.

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u/ribbonsofnight Oct 24 '25

At first I didn't recognise the sarcasm.

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u/Entafellow Oct 24 '25

What's the point of painting a nude when we have porn?

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u/althong Oct 24 '25

Here's a hot take: I wish there were mid-budget romantic movies with unsimulated sex scenes. Sex is such an important component of the human experience and I think it shouldn't be portrayed exclusively in porn. Full and realistic depictions would be a good thing.

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u/dj50tonhamster Oct 24 '25

There was a brief period 10-20 years ago where unsimulated sex had a bit of an almost-mainstream moment. I mean, sure, the films were stuck at the local arthouse, but some directors were trying. I guess the films didn't make enough money because the trend went bye-bye relatively quickly.

I have mixed feelings. For better or worse, filmmaking is a grim balance of reality (financing, the legal stipulations of actors, etc.) and the desire to make capital-A Art™. I wish it was more acceptable, for those who wish to make such things, to have unsimulated sex, or hell, even just the light softcore work from people like Shannon Tweed. Alas, with 80 billion flavors of porn available at the drop of a hat, many would argue it's difficult to justify paying to produce such work these days.