I find it that fascinating that there are actual people being appalled when hearing a swearword. Reading is even… further. It’s insane, why would that be bad in any way?
Sex scene is something I find prude but at least can somewhat understand when someone just doesn’t like very sexual stuff or so (but I mean, that is just important for the plot in most cases as well)!
There's definitely some works that have unnecessary sex scenes; it's more obvious in movies, though. A lot of the time, the entire romance subplot is utterly unnecessary, and sometimes horribly executed on top of that. Remember The Hobbit, now imagine they also had a sex scene!
That would feel weird in Hobbit because it’s a story he wrote for his kid. At the same time, I find George RR Martin’s critique of that aspect of LOTR valid. He said something along the lines of “It’s a neat world, but it doesn’t feel real. Can you imagine dwarves having sex?” Meanwhile, due to its grit, the GoT world feels very believable. Humans are messy, primal creatures at the core.
There's works with sex scenes that make sense, and works where they don't. A Song Of Ice And Fire is definitely an example of the former. On top of that, both the books and the TV show had tons of time, which is in stark contrast to most movies and many shorter books.
To some extent I can understand it, it’s very normal to have both of those things just for the sake of it in today’s media, to that guy it might look even more rampant than to you and I.
Similarly, I personally like manga/anime but kinda hate how fanservice gets inserted with little to no consideration on how it affects a scene (and it seems to happen in most works aimed at a male demographic, can’t speak for all genres), if I want to see some actual skin I can always look up porn.
i’ll stand by the fact that one of my favourite books of all time is the phantom tollbooth. the best children’s content is something that can also be enjoyed by adults.
The caterpillar is an allegory for man’s metamorphis. It shows how once we shed our childish desires such as greed, that we can be reborn as truly beautiful beings free to fly away from our worldly connections.
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