"Boobs"

[FamoFunk]

Maybe because Women and women's breasts have been turned into sex objects and over sexualised.

 

[banthesun]

I haven't noticed too big a shift actually. If anything, I'd suggest that modern technology allows, and as such forces, filmakers to think more carefully about the direct aspects of their composition. In the 90s it would have been fine to slip a boob or two into a frame, but now that people can watch it on their wall sized TVs and pause, skip, and zoom all over the place such nudity would seem a lot less casual. No one wants to turn their serious movie into porn so perhaps they have to be more careful these days.

 

[Souplex]

Well, before the 80s there was no PG13 rating. Things that would be PG13 back in the day have become R as the largest age group was born at the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s and no longer cares about ratings due to them not being affected. Holywood no longer cares about cramming stuff into lower rated movies as that marketshare has gone down. You will also notice how fewer G rated movies have come out since we were kids.

 

[dex-dex]

the MPAA is in charge of the rating system for the USA.
and they are run by up tight conservatives who are way too old to be reviewing movies. it is a must to have children to be on the board. because you know WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?????
also I have never known any children have a mental breakdown over seeing a boob.

 

[BonsaiK]

Why do you think movies began to avoid any display of a female's upper anatomy?

This deveopment is news to me!

Maybe this is only in the USA, because everywhere else in the world is generally fairly happy to show a little bit of boob. But to be honest, even in American films I haven't really noticed any change, and I'm the type of guy who definitely would notice.

We had a massive fiasco because a rated M game showed some side-boob. There's a quick summary of our culture.

Yeah, but that's computer games. Computer games haven't matured in the public eye yet to the point where they're taken as seriously as film, therefore any boob-display comes off as simple pandering to perverts rather than something contributing to the artistic merit of the whole. Give it 20 years or so and things will change, but that's the way it is for now.

 

[LetalisK]

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To the OP: Because we've become prudes. Graphically showing the ripping out of an eye ball out of its socket it okay though, it seems.

Is that from Kill Bill?

Actually, no. I had a couple other examples in mind, but that was not one of them. This kind of highlights my point.

 

[Merkavar]

its those dam feminists i tel lya.

its probably just so that the companies dont get complaints when some mother takes their kids to a pg 13 movie and get boobs in their face

but what i dont get is that its ok to show male chests on pg movie/tv etc. they are basically the same thing except females chest is normally bigger and can make milk. But i know alot of girls that get excited of topless guys just like guys get excited over topless girls.

so i dont see why one is ok but the other gets blured out.

 

[spartan231490]

I'm going to get flame-spammed for this probably just for the name of the thread, but its a legit question.

So I've been watching a lot of old 70s-90s movies lately, and I've noticed something which I suppose is partially simply because I'm male, and partly because I noticed it. If you look at a lot of older movies from that time frame they have no problems displaying female breasts in a PG or PG-13 movie. Then you look at modern day movies, and its a demonized subject to show them outside of a European movie or R-rated movie.

So without getting into the psychological views, and all that mumbo jumbo on my perspective of this social change, I'd like to find out other people's views on this change. Why do you think movies began to avoid any display of a female's upper anatomy? Social change, political change, simply because movies changed?

Now before I get a ton of flaming about my interest in asking this question, I'm going to ask that people remain mature in this topic (to some extent, feel free to joke around), and would like to point out that I couldn't care less if breasts are shown in a movie as long as the director gets across their movie in a way that is realistic to the setting.

Because of the "modern" backlash against sexuality in the media, and objectifying women in the media. I.E. feminism. For good or for ill, this change and many others are a result of the feminist movement.

 

[NeutralDrow]

The feminist movement probably had something to do with it.

Not initially, of course. But eventually. Something about objectifying women or creating a generation of male rapists or the usual silly nonsense.

its those dam feminists i tel lya.

Because of the "modern" backlash against sexuality in the media, and objectifying women in the media. I.E. feminism. For good or for ill, this change and many others are a result of the feminist movement.

Doesn't sound like any feminists I know. Exactly the opposite, in fact. Keeping breasts hidden and shameful is usually the far greater way to keep them objectified and solely-sexualized.

 

[crudus]

Something about corrupting the youth of America? Around the same time cartoons started becoming less violent as well. My guess is people started saying "wow, this could really mess up our kids!". It is interesting to note that people who grew up with worse are saying this, then say the younger generations suck(seriously, I get told this all. the fucking. time.)

Maybe because Women and women's breasts have been turned into sex objects and over sexualised.

That has been happening for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. I don't see why we should stop now.

 

[viranimus]

Yes please, Thank you.

I think at least from the US it is reflective of moving from a more liberal culture to a more conservative one (not from a political standpoint)

Basically the free everything from the 60s to the morbid excesses of the 80s you had a more free wheeling time.

Since then we have become much more puritanical and in many cases we see films electing not to show such things out of the political correct movement that started in the late 80s early 90s.

Its sad in my estimation that its another situation that boils down to feast or famine.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

What I want to know is why we can show man boob but not girl boob.

Sexist, I say. SEXIST!

 

[jawakiller]

I'm also perplexed. Why don't women just not wear shirts? Wouldn't that be awesome? Just asking. I'd be like DUDE WTF OMG MUTHA FUCKAS!!! BOOBIES N SHIT!... Sorry, couldn't help myself. I will try and refrain from such outrageous exclamations in the future (in a british accent).

HOLY FUc-.... Ooops.

 

[vf501]

It's because the loudest most obnoxious people complain too much. No boobs on tv, problem? Just go to your local College campus, you'll see enough boobage or parts of boobs to make up for it. After all it's bad when on television but in the streets it's okay since 1st Amendment rights of people are inviolate but not the rights of the media.

captcha:ectopic onsioncl
??? Ive heard of ectopic pregnancies, but wtf escapist?

 

[Bill_Stanbrook]

From what I can recall of nudity in movies and TV back in the 80's, 90's, and earlier, it was all pretty gratuitous, and was often used to mask a movie's short-comings. What happened was simply that the movie-going public got tired of movie makers catering to the lowest common denominator and the movie makers realized that they had to lift their game rather than relying on nudity to carry a film.