I know that boys are interested in sex early but 8 and 9???? My son is almost 9 and still thinks girls are gross. I cant even imagine.
ya im wondering that too i mean are they even physically able to do anything at that age?...
EXACTLY!
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The other thing is that I used to love Horror movies...but they also have gone too far...they have become so sadistically ultra-violent that I don't watch them anymore. I want to be scared a little, by a ghost or a monster... not watch 2 hours of dismemberment and sadistic butchery of human beings for entertainment....which is what many movies are nowadays...I guess I better not get started on violence now.....
Anyone seen Halloween? It's a sex movie pretending to be a horror movie. You can't even watch a good gore-fest without sex anymore. :-(
Well let's just shut down all of the movie houses and TV production studios because "the few" have spoken. Give me a break.
First of all, children should NOT be seeing the remake of Halloween.
Secondly, if you are an adult that can handle gory horror films, then I think it's safe to assume you can handle a sexual innuendo or sex scene where they don't show anything anyways! :twocents:
I know you're not talking about me. I love gore shows and I can handle sex scenes - I prefer the two not be mixed, however. My preference. I would love to have been able to take my daughter to the horror show - but it wasn't a horror show, it was a sex show. She can stick to Freddy Kruger where there is much less of that stuff.
I almost took her. I'm glad I didn't. Goodness, this kid listens to heavy metal, did the time warp at four, Rocky Horror two years ago and HAS DUSTED MY DUNGEON - I'm certainly no prude of a parent.
It used to be scary movies were scary because things scared you. Then people got desensitized, so they upped the ante and it got to the gore factor. Then they upped it again when gore didn't bother anyone anymore, so they tossed sex in there too. Used to be scantily clad women were enticing, but people got desensitized, so they went to nudity and then to sex, then added violence to the sex, and I see alot more bondage and kinky sex added to the mix too (CSI Vegas good example) and so now... what is there to put you a little on edge anymore?
Nothing much left.
However, now that all these things are no longer shocking, the kids that never grew up in a time when things were shocking - think it's pretty normal.
Glitch, I think sex was always a big part of horror movies. I'm sure you know the cliche that if teenagers have sex in a horror movie, we all know they are the next to die. (See Kevin Bacon in the first Friday the 13th.) The sex may be graphic now, but it was always there.
But something HAS changed by the time we get to the Saw and Hostel series. To me, it has something to do with depicting slow torture. I just can't see the pleasure in watching that.
Used to be the question when watching a horror movie was "Will the good guys get away?" Now it seems to be "How long can they suffer before they finally bleed out?"
At least Hitchcock knew a suspense film was supposed to be fun in between the scary parts... (Okay, it's official. I am now an old fart.)
It wasn't television that messed up these children. I would bet atleast one of them was himself sexually assaulted and threatened.
My memory from the Dark Ages is that lots of 9-year-old boys knew about sex, if only because they'd heard of it from backstreet gossip. Others were having sex in some form or another, whether they knew what to call it or not.
If I were to blame anything for a climate of sexual crudeness, I'd blame the way we portray sex, not knowledge of sex itself. And I don't mean naked bodies, which I doubt hurt anyone. But much of the sex portrayed today is coercive, if not actually violent.
Hey Indy, ya watched MTV lately?