Hollywood sex scenes have plummeted 40% since 2000, with many top-grossing films ‘squeaky clean’: study
nypost.comstudy conducted by data scientist Stephen Follows for the Economist found. Follows compared the level of sex content in the 250 top-grossing films of each year since 2000 and found a clear trend.As time has passed, moviemakers have put less and less skin-on-skin contact in their films.
And it’s not just that sex scenes are becoming less intense and dirty.A driving factor of the findings is an increase in the number of top 250 films with no sex at all, the study found.
This reached a peak in 2019 when half of the 250 top-grossing films that year were “squeaky clean” and the amount has only dipped slightly with roughly 46% of last year’s top movies having no sex scenes.
Action and thriller movies have seen the sharpest dips in the amount of whoopee-making among movie genres, while romantic films had the smallest decline.
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