8 May 2024

Sex on screen: Why is Hollywood shying away from sex and nudity?

From Nights, 10:30 pm on 8 May 2024

One of the most talked about films at the moment is Luca Guadagnino's steamy tennis epic Challengers.

But while full of double entendre and extremely suggestive scenes the movie almost eschews sex entirely.

And as it turns out, aside from a few notable exceptions, the depiction of love making on film has dramatically declined in the past 20 years.

RNZ's very own Tony Stamp has written about the trend and talks to Emile Donovan about what might be driving it.

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