Stop the press – a study has discovered that some movies actually condone sex and drugs.
Yeah, we were shocked too. But Dr Hasantha Gunasekera has proved it in a report for the Journal of the Royal Society Of Medicine. He puts it to Hollywood that it is being irresponsible in it’s portrayal of unprotected sex and drug use. We’d agree, but first we must mention to Dr Gunasekera that they’re films, you dozy nitwit! They’re not even real!
Dr Gunasekera’s study took the top 200 hundred movies of all time, and
started picking the list apart. He got rid of all the films from before
1983 – as that was pre-AIDS – all the animated films, all the films
rated for children and all the films not about adults. That left him
with a list of 87 films, which featured 53 episodes of sex. And only
one film – Pretty Woman – mentioned condoms. And there was a distinct
lack of consequences shown from having casual unprotected sex.
It’s an interesting point, but then the doc goes and spoils it all
by specifically mentioning three films which feature a lot of sex.
First on his hit-list is Basic Instinct (DVDs), which apparently includes six
episodes of intercourse with new and married partners. No condoms,
birth control measures or consequences such as unplanned
pregnancy were shown. No consequences? What about that bloke who got
ice-picked to death? That’s a pretty serious consequence of intercourse
with a new partner, isn’t it? And wasn’t the whole ‘promiscuous serial
killer’ premise a great big allusion to AIDS anyway?
Also singled out was Die Another Day (DVDs), as it includes three
episodes of sexual intercourse, all with new partners. Again, no
condoms, birth control or consequences were shown. Except for the
consequence of that woman getting stabbed in the chest with a dirty
great sword, that is. Plus, one of the three sex scenes was about a woman on
her own using a virtual reality machine – in our experience, the only
consequence of imagined sex is usually a bit of a mess and the feeling
that all your dead relatives are deeply ashamed of you.
It’s not just sex that gets it. Dr Gunasekera is also hard on There’s Something About Mary (DVDs), as it features cannabis
use portrayed as normal relaxation behaviour with no consequences
shown. That would be the same There’s Something About Mary where
characters set fire to a dog, get fish hooks stuck in their cheeks and
end up with jizzy hair. That has to be the biggest anti-drugs film ever!
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Movies ‘condoning sex and drugs’ – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]