Recently, One Night Only director Will Gluck stated that it's 100% true that Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t want to see sex on screen. "Sex is now more of a private, intimate thing that people don’t want to see when they are in a shared experience. Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable," he has been quoted as saying by the Hollywood media.
Netizens have reacted to the comment in diverse ways. Here, we bring you some of the best takes:
"Sex scenes are almost always unnecessary. In the 2010s, there was a point when certain shows and films had basically been reduced to softcore pornography. I am very thankful the trend is reversing," Lauren Chen opined.
"It’s not even sexy. Randomly seeing two naked people go at it is just unnecessary and weird. You feel like you’re walking in on something you didn’t want to see. An assault on the eyes. Zero sexual tension or sex appeal whatsoever," Brittany Hugoboom wrote.
"Sex scenes in movies are unnecessary, but Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s rejection of them has nothing to do with modesty or chastity. It’s the direct result of minds fried by endless online porn. After being relentlessly conditioned to reduce sex to a mindless physical transaction for personal gratification, the idea of it as an intimate expression of love starts to feel alien and makes this generation uncomfortable," wrote Kangmin Lee.
"I see some people on the Right mistaking this for a return to morality, but I have seen the polling on this. This is the death of aspiration at the hands of representation. Gen Z is actually rejecting romance on screen because they're not dating. This is a symptom of that issue," Sean Fitzgerald observed.
