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i think it was prevalent before the interwebs because there was largely few places to get porn, and throwing it in a movie meant more eyeballs.

as porn became immediately available in other forms (mostly the internet), the unnecessary scenes could be eliminated as a waste of time and a detraction from plots. they ceased being a reason to draw eyeballs.

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You telling me this wasn’t relevant to the plot?

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7 points

What’s this?

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Scary Movie

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What the fuck movie is this?

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Scary Movie

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Bingo. This is 100% the reason, and it’s funny that people assume anything else. When you can just watch porn at any time with no effort, sex scenes are gratuitous and awkward distractions except in rare circumstances.

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You can get gratuitous violence on the internet, too. Far more than the most violent slasher film. Availability isn’t the reason.

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the desire for gratuitous violence is probably orders of magnitude less sought for than our sex drive.

sex is so much more of a psycho-social driver than violence as to make your assumption invalid.

e. i would also add slasher films are slasher films. they arent regular movies with slasher film parts thrown in to attract as many eyeballs as possible. they were written to attract people into that niche thing.

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If it’s not as desirable, then why would it be so prevalent in movies?

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I wish the graph went back another twenty years so we could see whether the timeframe matches your hypothesis.

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