Too much sex and nudity on Film and TV?

Do you think there's too much sex and nudity on TV?

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FormerFapaholic

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DOES anyone on NoFap who's battling, and on the road to recovery from their addiction to porn. I feel that there's too much sexual content and nudity on films and TV shows? Like that they're throwing and shoving peoples' sexualities at our faces. The shock value of it. Getting people talking and watching it. From the social boundaries writers and producers enjoy pushing for getting ratings. Which so much detracts from and takes away the quality of the films and shows. There is a saying that 'sex sells'. As well as TV and films, I feel that this also applies with music videos too.

Now I don't want to come across as a prude, but it's all become crass and in poor taste. But with sex and nudity seen more on films and TV programmes. I feel that it's normalising the use of pornography. As if it's become socially acceptable to view porn. Objectifying people like they're piece of meat.

I feel that watching films and TV has fallen way down the pecking order. As I battle and overcome my PMO addiction, I resent the fact on how many shows contain sex and/or nudity. Like that society has become overly sexualised. Distorting our views and attitudes towards sex and relationships whereas many people have an unhealthy outlook on it. Which I feel is just as bad as PMO.

Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-sex. There's nothing wrong with being sexual providing you’re at an appropriate time and place for it. Sex should be a loving and intimate moment. Where there's not only a physical connection, but an emotional one too. Where the feeling's mutual between two people.

I'm not alone in thinking this am I?
 
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I don't watch TV, movies, music videos, advertisements, or conventional media in general. I watch some YouTube videos that are educational, videos which I choose consciously, and which don't have the same shortcomings as traditional media.

The trick is to cut out fantasies from your life and to live the life that is right in front of you. The plain, ordinary, everyday life. No flashy bright lights, no loud blaring noises, no sexy cool imagery. Just you out in the world enjoying the simple things and feeling like that is good enough.

We don't have to entertain ourselves with grand fantasies. We can find intensely deep, meaningful, soulful experience in our ordinary lives. There is something a million times more thrilling and life-affirming you can find in sitting by a camp-fire in the middle of a pine tree forest at night, listening to the wind rustle through the trees and the owls calmly hooting, than you can find in all of the flashy night clubs, casual sex, HD porn, alcohol and drugs in the world combined.
 
One of the first thing I did when I started this whole thing was cancel my Netflix account and avoid TV. I see TV and movies as largely another form of fantasy now. The internet has the same effect. Trying to give up on porn suddenly makes you realise this. It's very difficult now with the internet and TV to avoid being bombarded with things that influence you in a negative way. We've seen the toxic influence of social media and porn on the lives of a lot of people. I found switching off my lights and lighting a candle has a similar affect to what MonkeyDo said.
 
MonkeyDo said:
I don't watch TV, movies, music videos, advertisements, or conventional media in general. I watch some YouTube videos that are educational, videos which I choose consciously, and which don't have the same shortcomings as traditional media.

The trick is to cut out fantasies from your life and to live the life that is right in front of you. The plain, ordinary, everyday life. No flashy bright lights, no loud blaring noises, no sexy cool imagery. Just you out in the world enjoying the simple things and feeling like that is good enough.

We don't have to entertain ourselves with grand fantasies. We can find intensely deep, meaningful, soulful experience in our ordinary lives. There is something a million times more thrilling and life-affirming you can find in sitting by a camp-fire in the middle of a pine tree forest at night, listening to the wind rustle through the trees and the owls calmly hooting, than you can find in all of the flashy night clubs, casual sex, HD porn, alcohol and drugs in the world combined.
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I 100% agree bro! There’s way more to live than trivial bs
 
FormerFapaholic said:
DOES anyone on NoFap who's battling, and on the road to recovery from their addiction to porn. I feel that there's too much sexual content and nudity on films and TV shows? Like that they're throwing and shoving peoples' sexualities at our faces. The shock value of it. Getting people talking and watching it. From the social boundaries writers and producers enjoy pushing for getting ratings. Which so much detracts from and takes away the quality of the films and shows. There is a saying that 'sex sells'. As well as TV and films, I feel that this also applies with music videos too.

Now I don't want to come across as a prude, but it's all become crass and in poor taste. But with sex and nudity seen more on films and TV programmes. I feel that it's normalising the use of pornography. As if it's become socially acceptable to view porn. Objectifying people like they're piece of meat.

I feel that watching films and TV has fallen way down the pecking order. As I battle and overcome my PMO addiction, I resent the fact on how many shows contain sex and/or nudity. Like that society has become overly sexualised. Distorting our views and attitudes towards sex and relationships whereas many people have an unhealthy outlook on it. Which I feel is just as bad as PMO.

Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-sex. There's nothing wrong with being sexual providing you’re at an appropriate time and place for it. Sex should be a loving and intimate moment. Where there's not only a physical connection, but an emotional one too. Where the feeling's mutual between two people.

I'm not alone in thinking this am I?
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you're not at all alone in this, man!

I'm sure if would not have gone more than 1 day without PMO if I were to watch lot of TV and music videos and instagram....its just so -- in the face type of exposure.
 
I agree 100%... even for those without an addiction, there is far too much sex in the media. For someone like me who does have a problem, I'll take it a step further. It's not just TV and movies, but advertising of all types. The grocery store may be the only safe place to go. Any clothing store or magazine cover is hyper sexualized.... even hamburgers are sold with sex!
 
arpyegap said:
I agree 100%... even for those without an addiction, there is far too much sex in the media. For someone like me who does have a problem, I'll take it a step further. It's not just TV and movies, but advertising of all types. The grocery store may be the only safe place to go. Any clothing store or magazine cover is hyper sexualized.... even hamburgers are sold with sex!
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Yeah, that sort of tells you how much sexualisation has been ingrained within our society.
 
Our world as we know it has long past. There are literally millions and millions of people having PMO issues that would say it is not an issue. Even though it costs a lot of people their marriages and relationships. Most people just don't get it or understand. They just follow the lot of sheep and do the same dumb things other people do. I am done with this type of lifestyle and moved my way towards being independent of normal, everyday society and it is a whole lot better. Anyways, watch boring news and watch people play video games and you will be fine most of the time, only most.
 
Chappo030891 said:
I'm sure if would not have gone more than 1 day without PMO if I were to watch lot of TV and music videos and instagram....its just so -- in the face type of exposure.
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You're spot on there about Instagram. That's why I've ditched it completely. With regards to social media, I have moderated my use of it and also changed my news feed, who I follow or unfollow, etc.
 
Yes agreed... I have watched the sexual stuff increase on TV for over 4 decades. Although I don’t watch TV anymore it’s mostly crap IMO - It just keeps increasing decade after decade. And as for movies yes but that’s not new just different I remember a lot of movies in the 80s that were very sexual. Having HBO in the house when I was a teenager helped spur on my PMO addiction- there were a lot of nudity and sexual/ seductive scenes in a lot of movies back then too.

This isn’t an accident it’s intentional and it teaches us from the time we are kids that this is all “normal.” I read an amazing series of articles on the power of TV to “brainwash” and influence peoples thinking with some scientific study and research on how the TV signals impact the brain and how the particular waves from TV / video signals actually put the brain into a semi hypnotic state - (by the way watching porn videos essentially puts our brain in the same state.) There is a reason why they call it TV - “Programming”.

Anyway enough of the conspiracies- do some research on it if you are interested pretty interesting stuff.

Think about it though .... some of you older folks on here when you were a kid and watched cartoons on Saturday mornings remember Pepe Le Pew. He was teaching us how to lust... remember when a good looking female character would walk by and the male characters eyeballs and tongue would pop out of his head and his heart would stretch out of his chest pounding like crazy with the horn sounds, etc., etc. ... since we were kids we were taught this is all “normal” ... lust, nudity, sexuality porn - hardcore sex. (It’s just the way it is always in our face / minds since we were kids... Now it’s abuut sexual orientation or whatever- all telling us it’s “normal” ... it’s like laugh tracks on sitcoms - what is the psychology behind laugh tracks? Bad jokes or things that was once offensive to most people in our society are cloaked in a laugh track repeatedly and eventually it becomes funny it’s a subtle way of making it all “normal”

I say it’s mind pollution “sex sells” yes but it also influences.... and makes us all think it’s “normal”

“Follow the money” and you’ll find the agenda behind the curtain.

Anyway, I’ll get off my soap box - I agree with the sentiment of the thread.
 
davidx said:
Yes agreed... I have watched the sexual stuff increase on TV for over 4 decades. Although I don’t watch TV anymore it’s mostly crap IMO - It just keeps increasing decade after decade. And as for movies yes but that’s not new just different I remember a lot of movies in the 80s that were very sexual. Having HBO in the house when I was a teenager helped spur on my PMO addiction- there were a lot of nudity and sexual/ seductive scenes in a lot of movies back then too.

This isn’t an accident it’s intentional and it teaches us from the time we are kids that this is all “normal.” I read an amazing series of articles on the power of TV to “brainwash” and influence peoples thinking with some scientific study and research on how the TV signals impact the brain and how the particular waves from TV / video signals actually put the brain into a semi hypnotic state - (by the way watching porn videos essentially puts our brain in the same state.) There is a reason why they call it TV - “Programming”.

Anyway enough of the conspiracies- do some research on it if you are interested pretty interesting stuff.

Think about it though .... some of you older folks on here when you were a kid and watched cartoons on Saturday mornings remember Pepe Le Pew. He was teaching us how to lust... remember when a good looking female character would walk by and the male characters eyeballs and tongue would pop out of his head and his heart would stretch out of his chest pounding like crazy with the horn sounds, etc., etc. ... since we were kids we were taught this is all “normal” ... lust, nudity, sexuality porn - hardcore sex. (It’s just the way it is always in our face / minds since we were kids... Now it’s abuut sexual orientation or whatever- all telling us it’s “normal” ... it’s like laugh tracks on sitcoms - what is the psychology behind laugh tracks? Bad jokes or things that was once offensive to most people in our society are cloaked in a laugh track repeatedly and eventually it becomes funny it’s a subtle way of making it all “normal”

I say it’s mind pollution “sex sells” yes but it also influences.... and makes us all think it’s “normal”

“Follow the money” and you’ll find the agenda behind the curtain.

Anyway, I’ll get off my soap box - I agree with the sentiment of the thread.
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wow thats deep, man! Never thought of it that way.....the thought of kids watching cartoons is so concerning now....
 
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