McBuh Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 A few days ago, some friends and I watched the movie "Lost in Translation" about two married people who experience brief love while in Japan for business reasons. After the movie one friend remarked: "I think it's refreshing that they could make a romance that has absolutely no sex." (At least between the two people involved in the romance.) I thought about that for a couple of seconds and replied: "I can't remember ever seeing a romance movie in which the two people who fall in love have sex." Now that I think of it, anytime I can remember sex in a romance movie it has typically been with a former lover that the character escapes from in order to establish a contrast between a sexual relationship and a romantic relationship. All romance movies that I remember seem to intentionally communicate that a sexual relationship is tedious and would best be replaced by a relationship with emotional openness but no sex. The entire genre seems to be Hollywood's awareness that sex is overrated and not what a good relationship is about at all. Link to post Share on other sites
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