Generation Z Rejects Hollywood Sex Scenes - What Do They Want?

Published: October 28, 2024

Generation Z Is Rejecting Hollywood Sex Scenes – Here’s What They Really Want

By Movieguide® Contributor

Hollywood continues to release raunchy movies and shows, but Gen Z is demanding less on-screen sex.

A new study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Scholars and Storytellers surveyed nearly 1,500 people ages 10 to 24 and found that the vast majority of teens don’t want to see sex in movies and TV shows.

“63.5% of teens said they preferred big and small screen stories to focus on friendships, while 62.4% said sexual content was not needed as a plot device,” Variety reported. reported. “These are big jumps from the previous year, when 51.5% of survey respondents said they wanted more content about people in platonic relationships and 47.5% said they were not looking for TV shows or movies where sex is the main plot.”

The publication noted that participants ages 10-13 were not asked about their feelings regarding sexually explicit content.

“Our findings really seem to solidify a trend we found emerging in our data last year: Teens are tired of seeing the same old and irrelevant romantic tropes on screen,” said Alisha J. Hines, the center’s director of research. per Deadline. “Teens and young adults want to see stories that more authentically reflect the full spectrum of nuanced relationships.”

So what does Generation Z want to see on the screen?

AV Club reported that young people “prefer fantasy stories (36.2 percent) to things about the rich and famous (7.2 percent) or personal matters (24.2 percent), in fact, they still like going to the movies and ‘hopeful, uplifting content that beats people up’ “They preferred it,” he said. possibilities.”

This is not the first work of its kind; A study by Talker Research revealed similar findings.

UCLA’s research confirms what Movieguide® has been saying all along: Viewers want ethical, family-friendly content, and box office results prove it.

Movieguide®’s 2024 report for the entertainment industry to create “The total of the top 25 highest-earning domestic actors at the box office with a strong or very strong Christian or redemptive worldview averaged $244.95 million.”

Generation Z Is Rejecting Hollywood Sex Scenes – Here’s What They Really Want

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