does anyone else HATE sex scenes in tv/films?

[americax]

I cannot handle sex scenes in shows/movies. I don't care if it's being shot from the waist up, if there's moaning or thrusting or whatever, I will nearly pass out. When I watched R rated movies (and sexuality is a reason for the rating), I wanna know when that scene is so I can skip over it, cause if I don't know one's coming and it just happens, it's like instant panic attack. 

 

I know of many ace people don't like or dislike sex scenes, they just find them unnecessary. I've heard great arguments for sex scenes from allosexual people (not a porn reason but in a way that it's such a part of so many people's lives and proper representation and accuracy would be nice, blah blah, and I like that), but me personally, I am steadfastly against sex scenes. I DON'T WANNA SEE/HEAR IT or even read the captions while I hold my hand up over the action. 

 

Anyone else in this boat with me? How do you all feel about sex scenes? 

[WanderingPurpleDragon]

I have to look away when there are kissing/sex scenes and definitely feel uncomfortable if there are noises....if I'm watching something alone I sometimes mute it or I just fast forward a bit. People used to say I'd grow out of it someday...by now I think it's not likely. 😆

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[WanderingPurpleDragon]

10 minutes ago, psybx said:

 Sex scenes in any form have always made me super uncomfortable

 

Same! The ones in books I can kind of tolerate a little more because I can just skim past a sex scene quickly (I've heard some books have scenes that go on for pages but, luckily, nor the ones I read). But in comics/manga/manhwa....it's equally as uncomfortable as when watching a movie or show.

[SouthernMinuet]

Ive always felt uncomfortable with sex scenes. Mostly they just irritate me with their slurping and moaning and desperation. I just don’t,get what’s appealing. I do like gentle loving scenes that aren’t too graphic. Like both people respect and love each other. Im glad to hear others feel similar to me. I thought I was the odd woman out. 

[Phalena]

If I can, I leave the room when sex scenes come up. Most of the time they don't even make a lot of sense, example: couple is being stalked and hunted by a monster/demon/whatever that for some reasons turns them on instead of stressing them -- completely negating any self-preservation responses. Or, which is pretty often in crime movies that my family tends to watch: over half of the times it's coerced/rape.

[ochre_orchid]

I have always found sex scenes so boring that I just skip them. Never understood what the appeal was. We are trying to find out who the murderer is, but we have to look at these people have sex in the mean time? How is it relevant? 😅

[ThePapercraftingCat]

I find sex scenes slightly uncomfortable. And sometimes unnecessary. I just skip over them. 

26 minutes ago, Phalena said:

Most of the time they don't even make a lot of sense, example: couple is being stalked and hunted by a monster/demon/whatever that for some reasons turns them on instead of stressing them -- completely negating any self-preservation responses.

This reminds me of the time that I was watching an film with my mum and the leads somehow managed to find the time for a lengthy kiss before they saved the world, I said to my mum 'why are they waisting time kissing each other when they're supposed to be defeating the bad guy and saving the world?' Her response was that 'it's romantic'. And I said 'yeah, but can't they kiss later, when they've saved the world?'

[Oko]

Sexual scenes are boring and useless. It just detracts from the story. I realy like horror movies but in almost every horror movie they have to give a sexual scene😑 If I see it, I just check what is new on my mobile phone, I'm boring and I say "When will it end? I want to see something interresting!"😖

[asexualien]

I don’t really care. Sometimes I do find them unnecessary though. 

[daveb]

I wouldn't say "hate", but I find them to be unnecessary and often silly and/or gross. I stopped watching some shows when I find they have fairly explicit sex scenes. I don't care to see that. I prefer it when it is just implied (but even then, only if it is relevant to the plot), like fade to black and then come back after it supposedly happened.

[Arna Sou]

I find them extremely uncomfortable. Luckily, I am usually only watching stuff at home alone, and thus I can simply jump forward to whenever it is over.

[KVA1983]

Sex scenes don't bother me, I just find if a film or TV program needs to resort to sex scenes then the film is seriously lacking proper storyline.

 

Unless it's a film specifically surrounding STrafficking or to that nature but even then it should be extremely limited to not take away from the scripting.

[Acing It]

I find them a bit pointless and wonder whether they just put them in for the viewing figures. Sometimes it ruins a character I like for me. When they end  up in a sex scene with someone I think 'really? Did you have to do that?'. 

[EmeraldIce]

I find them weird, and I find moaning disgusting, I like the way they do it in Chinese period dramas, where one person is pushed onto the bed, the bed curtains close, and the next thing you know, they're relaxing and chatting it up under the covers with their shoulders exposed. Sometimes you can see their clothes all over the floor. It's assumed that sex happened during the in-between but the movements themselves are left unseen.

[Geekykitty]

Its funny because I used to feel this way in my teens and 20s. I thought nudity and sex scenes in movies were so disgusting. I don't know why but I seem to have changed as I've gotten older. I don't mind some sex scenes now, as long as there's not too much nudity or gross violent sort of stuff. I'm still not interested in having sex myself but I can enjoy some sex scenes and fantasies even. 

[Philip027]

Ehh, don't really care anymore.  Most of it just comes off as fanservice, and I mostly just laugh at how ineffective fanservice is with getting my interest.