marcob: "FUN" fact: in some USA states where porn can be viewed by 21 years olds or older but you can (as in the majority of countries) work in every field or do most things (including signing contracts, marry, buy estates, etc.) if you're 18 or older, a pornstar could commit a minor infraction if she/he buys/views a video of herself from the movie(s) she/he's in!
TheGrimLord: So that only involves an actual porn film. If we're talking about a film where real human beings are recorded fornicating, than yes that could be an issue. But if the actress was only doing VA for a fictional character (100% of these games) then it isn't even the same. It's equivalent to me moaning for some game. Sexual sounds don't equal sex or you'd have teens going to jail on TikTok right now or the ASMR girls on Twitch and Youtube.
Depends on local "obscenity" laws I suppose. Can a sound be obscene? For me, yes, if an image can (it's not obvious, it's culturally determined and very fluid and debatable).
My point still stands: to be strict with others more than with oneself is risking a paradox
BanditKeith2: Lets not forget the fact atleast in the U.S all the tv programs with sex scenes that has aired on tv channels, and the shows aren't rated any higher then tv-14 ..I am not against such stuff in media persay but my point is it seems like for America atleast if the sex scenes are somehow deemed ''relevant to the plot'' or ''Tasteful enough'' its not classed as even remotely ...
To me its just wierd for series to have that and be rated so low or atleast used to be weird given how few people watch tv anymore and mostly stream stuff anymore
botan9386: One could argue that this is a form of selective censorship. Like you say, there are movie/tv sex scenes that are even more intense/explicit than many "porn" videos, but they are considered artistic media. Why? Because they added filler content around the sex scenes? It's just absurd, lol. This is getting away from the point of the thread though so I won't dig any deeper.
Moreover, is really a sex (I suppose enjoyed and enjoyable sex!) scenes the most traumatising or disquieting media one can run into unwillingly? I think not. And speacking about the ones that eerily stick in one's memory the most, I bet they could even be very mild graphically but quite suggestive because of the context (think to a disturbing revelation, a symbolic camera macro, an offscreen killing being told abruptly, etc.)
But it would be better to talk about it in a separate post