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Tigress
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Posted 2/16/2004 8:27 AM (GMT -6)

This is an article on male nudity in movies. Personally I'd rather not see male or female nudity in movies, but I thought this was an interesting article. Women have been regarded as objects for men's visual pleasure for far too long. I wish it would end in the entertainment industry but I suppose it never will - until Christ returns, that is. Cool

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4235583/

Tigress

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GregBoyd
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Posted 2/16/2004 4:06 PM (GMT -6)

Doesn't a lot depend on CONTEXT? I mean, Shindlers List showed both male and female nudity... but I doubt anyone was sexually aroused by it.

"The responsibility is with the chooser -- God is blameless." Plato, Republic, 10.

1Heart
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Posted 2/16/2004 6:49 PM (GMT -6)

[quote]Originally posted by GregBoyd

Doesn't a lot depend on CONTEXT? I mean, Shindlers List showed both male and female nudity... but I doubt anyone was sexually aroused by it.

I agree. The same goes for National Geographic and media where nudity is culturally acceptable. In North America at least, nudity is seen as sexual. The mind is powerful. What we believe, even what we perceive, affects our thinking and our behaviour.

(I'm not in favour of male nudity. If I lived in an African tribe where it was appropriate...this might be a different post...or not...probably wouldn't be a post)

Anyway...that's my story and I'm stickin to it! Nice to meet you Doc. I've read your books over the past couple of years. Have ordered some that aren't out yet, one anyway and am thoroughly enjoying them. Thank you. I have one very small book of my own - an adventure with the Father.

God Bless. I'm glad to be here.

Jo-Anne

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Tigress
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Posted 2/17/2004 4:46 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by GregBoyd

Doesn't a lot depend on CONTEXT? I mean, Shindlers List showed both male and female nudity... but I doubt anyone was sexually aroused by it.

Well duh! Of course! Smile

But I'm obviously not talking about that type of movie. I'm talking about the typical movie that includes the "obligatory" nude/sex scenes of women (usually) that really aren't necessary for the plot, even though the directors claim they are. Don't try to get around this by throwing in examples of the very few movies that show nudity in a non-sexual context like Shindler's list. That movie did show the lover of that psycho Nazi guy topless in their bed when he was shooting at the Jewish prisoners. That nude scene was gratuitous in my opinion so that movie isn't even exempt from the problem. I read that many Muslem leaders asked Stephen Spielberg to omit the sex scenes and gratuitous nude scenes from the movie so that they could watch it, but he refused, thus ruining a perfectly good opportunity for some Jewish/Muslem reconciliation to take place.

Tigress

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