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Why is Hollywood So Sex Negative?

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Image by Nimesh Niyomal Perera

However, they still continued to perpetuate a link between sex and trauma.

And when you take the industry’s history into account, it isn’t hard to see why.

But whichever route we take will lead us to the same conclusion Hollywood has an antiquated view of sex.

Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell, seated in a chair in a white dress with her legs folded, in Basic Instinct.

Image via TriStar Pictures

This is certainly not to say that there is no validity to films that examine sex and trauma.

It was initially a way to bypass censorship by the British Board of Film Classification.

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