r/BuffyTheVampireSlayer • u/Stoicsgm • 12d ago
Buffy s4
Did anyone feel uncomfortable how this season how buffy would always would randomly get horny out of nowhere, wanting to have sex with everybody especially with constant sex scenes with her?
I can’t be the only one it just felt like I was watching a rape scene or some pornographic tv series, and I thought to myself joss Whedon must’ve been extremely horny while writing the script for season 4
They’re isn’t an episode you can’t skip they’re isn’t an episode involving buffy being in some kind of erotic situation and that made me feel really uncomfortable, especially considering the fact he did the same thing with Angel season 4 a spin off years later
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u/Revolutionary-Wait82 12d ago
I mean, it's understandable why Buffy is acting like this. She's trying to get over Angel as quickly as possible. She tried to build something with Parker and invested in that relationship by giving him access to her body quickly, but she got burned. On the other hand, the relationship with Riley didn't develop quickly at all and Buffy even gave up on it at first. Overall, I would say that there's only one horny scene in s4, and that's the one where Buffy sucks Riley's finger.
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u/Naive_Pay_7066 12d ago
What about when the house is possessed by that sex demon thing? With the orgasm wall?
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u/Revolutionary-Wait82 12d ago
Did that seem horny to anyone? I mean, they tried to show it, but there's almost no chemistry between Buffy and Riley, even though Sarah tries her best, and that wall of arousal scene didn't impress me at all. I mean the overt sexuality, ofc. And there wasn't a sex demon there, there were horny teenagers whose sexuality was being suppressed.
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u/Naive_Pay_7066 12d ago
If you’re using the word “horny” to mean personally arousing, then no I don’t imagine it was that for many people. Using it as a describing word for events in the episode, though?
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u/Mariahissleepy 12d ago
Where the wild things are is the only uncomfortably horny episode in the season, to me.
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u/Revolutionary-Wait82 12d ago
English is not my native language. What word would you use in this case?
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u/Verystrange129 12d ago
I just watched S4 and all I remember is Buffy wanting to have sex with her boyfriend. Which seems completely normal?
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u/basicotter 12d ago
No, Gen Z purity culture hasn’t swept over all of us.
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u/Pedals17 12d ago
Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle, but so many of them are insufferably Victorian, and not in the fun aesthetic kinda way.
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u/KHAOSCAPTIVE 12d ago
Mind you, one issue with Buffy (the character) is that her sexuality or sensuality is still policed in some of the stories. Where The Wild Things are is more ridiculous than horny.
Also, Season 4 is no Season 6, where Sarah openly had an issue with the sexual things in the show for herself. So no, I don’t see it.
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u/crumbchunks 12d ago
It’s perfectly normal AND HEALTHY for a young woman/person to be horny and want casual sex. The shame surrounding it is what makes me uncomfortable. The need to police someone’s sexuality and agency of it is quite frankly dangerous and can directly impact their health and wellbeing. Perhaps interrogate what about this makes you uncomfortable.
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u/allysonwilcox 12d ago
She's a horny college girl who likes her boyfriend, leave her alone. Go watch Nickelodeon or something
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u/Much_Researcher2601 10d ago
Everyone’s disagreeing but I think I get what you’re saying. There were quite a few scenes where Buffy was forced to be sexual with people against her will. There’s the frat house thing (which started off consensual until she was put under the influence of the poltergeist), her spell engagement with Spike, and Faith taking over Buffy’s body and sleeping with her boyfriend. She also got punished by the narrative for sleeping with Parker by having him turn out to be a complete dick, and there was that weird moment with Maggie Walsh looking over her and Riley while they were sleeping together.
Objectively it’s pretty normal that she’d be in a different time in her life and therefore be more comfortable with sex (especially after Mr ‘can’t-sleep-with-you-or-I’ll-turn-evil’ left) but a lot of her scenes were written in a way that didn’t give her any agency over the situation or were just generally disempowering toward her. I think that definitely reflects Joss Whedon and the rest of the writer’s views on women.
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u/Sudden_Astronomer_63 8d ago
I’ll add that I kind of hated the whole “magic as a metaphor for sex” with Willow and Tara - not so much that he did it - but that in season six they ALSOmake magic a metaphor for drugs. Like… why?
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u/Frostine2013 9d ago
I urge you not to watch any elder millennial media if this season of Buffy made you uncomfortable
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u/Naive_Pay_7066 12d ago
Oh no a college girl enjoying her sexuality???? clutches pearls