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Sexuality and its portrayal in the media, specifically films, evolves over time in some rather surprising ways. The reason I say that is because after the post I put on last night I stumbled across this site which lists a large number of films which for one reason or another have featured spanking.<\/p>\n
The key here is that at different point over the last 80 years the moving image of someone (usually a man) spanking someone else (usually a woman) has appeared on celluloid for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n
In some instances it’s about power and assertiveness, probably with the added element of male\/female gender role reinforcement thrown in. There have been scenes or whole films where the idea of someone who enjoys administering spankings is a running joke or theme of the movie.<\/p>\n
Spanking for titillation, either as the added spice to an otherwise mundane flick has to be a reason for spanking’s inclusion into some productions. But it’s only a minority of cases where a truly erotic spanking scene occurs, one which fires the imagination and gives a little insight into what goes on between a spanker and spankee.<\/p>\n
That of course echoes what I said in my earlier post about the media having to censor itself so as not to have a film refused a certificate out of hand. Pushing the envelope too far can be commercial suicide. It’s OK to see hundreds of people murdered each year in gore-fests and fantasy war movies, but show a bit of intense human sexual interaction and you’re asking for a rejection at the BBFC.<\/p>\n
It’s odd too how changing attitudes shape the content of movies. In the sixties and seventies it was quite acceptable in a film for a man to slap a woman on the ass in a playful and somewhat patronising way. Do that today on screen and you’d be in big trouble. I don’t have a problem with the sexual connotation in that instance, just the patronising bit, like the dialogue in 1960s TV series where every man seemed to be a in a competition to see who could be the biggest misogynist.<\/p>\n
What next I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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