Tv Shows With Sexual Content?

[CatherineM]

I primarily watch educational shows, or shows with dead bodies in them. My husband thinks it's macabre.

[Adrestia]

My brain tends to fil[font="Lucida Sans Unicode"]t[/font]er questionable content automatically. It's completely subconscious - I usually don't remember the morally objectionable scenes and I rarely notice the implied morally objectionable content. Does this happen to anyone else?

Edited July 6, 2011 by tgoldson

[Era Might]

[quote name='tgoldson' timestamp='1309972306' post='2263659']
My brain tends to fil[font="Lucida Sans Unicode"]t[/font]er questionable content automatically. It's completely subconscious - I usually don't remember the morally objectionable scenes and I rarely notice the implied morally objectionable content. Does this happen to anyone else?
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No. That must be your superpower.

[Adrestia]

[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1309973749' post='2263674']
No. That must be your superpower.
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Not really. I can't trust my memory when selecting movies for my classes. By the way, there is one suggestive scene in "[url="http://catholictrailers.com/2011/03/23/vaticans-great-films-02-the-mission-1986/"]The Mission[/url]" that I would recommend skipping when showing to teens. The movie got an A-II rating, but I wouldn't show it to younger teens.

[Wikitiki]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1309961468' post='2263599']
Me too

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[fides' Jack]

I think the only reason we watch TV anymore is just to relax together. We sold most of our movies due to this very issue.

And now there are other movies that we will never watch, based on objectionable content. Like "The Hangover."

[Papist]

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[kujo]

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[dominicansoul]

i'm just glad we don't have nekkid newscasters on the nightly newz like they do in Russia

[Cherie]

Barbara Nicolosi used to say something along the lines of this: it's not wrong to show sin in film, so long as 1) you're not causing others to sin while watching it (i.e. nudity and the like) and 2) it is shown as SIN, i.e. evil, and something that is bad or will later have a bad consequence for the character who took part in it. Sin is part of the human existence, and if you want to realistically tell the story of someone, sin will be a part of it. But it shouldn't be shown as something good, and it doesn't need to be seen in its utter totality.

Shakespeare and other playwrights through the centuries would allude to certain things happening without actually showing it all in a scene. A sex scene is actually a rather unintelligent way to portray what happened - it's meant solely to excite the passions of those who are watching it. But to allude to the fact that a character took part in the act ... for example, showing them going to a bedroom and then cutting out to the next scene, implies what we'd need to know for the story, and hopefully, if it's an act of fornication or adultery, the bad consequences of that act will appear as the story unfolds. See what I mean?

Anyway we hardly watch TV anymore and would just as easily not own a TV if it weren't for a few shows or documentaries here and there. But in my opinion, with all the rampant sexuality on TV, you need to be extremely careful, especially for men. Hardly anyone does anything on film with class or ingenuity anymore - sex sells, but intelligent, thought-provoking scripts apparently don't.

[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1309955667' post='2263570']
Well, I watch House for his stunningly perfect sarcasm...LOL....But yes, I guess I see what you mean. I suppose I just never thought of it that way...but yes, there is 13 and her issues, and Cuddy and House, and Chase and his ways, and Taub and his ways. I guess I always saw that as ancillary to the character; as I see House as a "mystery-can-they-cure-him" show.

But then the character of House is atheistic and hedonistic..so I suppose there are issues there too. Good points, havok....
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well the thing is, most people actually have issues like that. i dont mind TV shows that have semi realistic characters. if every show was moral and clean like The Waltons, most of them would be boring as hell, and hard to get into.

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1309977911' post='2263708']
i'm just glad we don't have nekkid newscasters on the nightly newz like they do in Russia
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what channel is that....?

[Maria]

A lot of old (and good) TV shows are on YouTube... That's basically all we watch in terms of TV now.

[havok579257]

[quote name='Maria' timestamp='1309982086' post='2263734']
A lot of old (and good) TV shows are on YouTube... That's basically all we watch in terms of TV now.
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youtube? i thought they take off full shows on youtube for copyright infringement?

[Maria]

I don't know why they're left there... maybe for some of them because they're really old (like Gomer Pyle and the Burns & Allen Show...)? I expect they'd only take the stuff off if the copyright holder objects, and I suppose some don't care.

[Era Might]

[quote name='CherieMadame' timestamp='1309979489' post='2263723']Shakespeare and other playwrights through the centuries would allude to certain things happening without actually showing it all in a scene. A sex scene is actually a rather unintelligent way to portray what happened - it's meant solely to excite the passions of those who are watching it. But to allude to the fact that a character took part in the act ... for example, showing them going to a bedroom and then cutting out to the next scene, implies what we'd need to know for the story, and hopefully, if it's an act of fornication or adultery, the bad consequences of that act will appear as the story unfolds. See what I mean?
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In some cases I think you're right that nudity and sex are used just to excite passions. But I think in many cases it's more of an artistic intent, along the lines of realism and the attempt to say what you mean, depict how people actually behave without dancing around it, etc.

I think of a movie like "A Clockwork Orange." A very brutal and explicit movie, but also a brilliant movie in my opinion. It's tough sometimes...great works of art that are not easy from a moral perspective. I think some Christians probably cannot handle those kinds of works of art, and some Christians can.

I think it's important to recognize these issues without becoming prudes or moralizers who cannot bear to admit that anything untoward exists in the world, or that we can't learn from those things. Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, as Our Lord says.