Why is the amount of sex and violence increasing in motion pictures? Is this a case of Hollywood giving society what they want or is it simply society's acceptance of what we are given?
I think that as the movie industry has moved on through time, they have come to realize that their audience will soak up whatever they are fed. They have found that they can include more sex, more drugs, and more violence, and that the audience members haven't rejected it yet. In fact, more people tend to attend movies with a fair amount of sex, drugs, and violence. I honestly believe that sex and violence are increasing because society isn't doing anything about it. They are sitting passively and watching whatever comes across the screen. They have slowly become desensitized to moderate sex and violence, and think a movie is boring without it. Hollywood wants to promote sex and violence and they know that society isn't going to react negatively if they add a little here and a little there. As people become more familiar with seeing sex and violence, those are the shows they tend to gravitate towards. Thus, the audience is supporting Hollywood's diet of trash and not even realizing the affect it is having on them.
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