Need something to do next weekend? Protest sex in films!

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-07-28/#film4

Celibate Kids To Urge Studios To De-Sex Movies

Under a banner proclaiming, "We raise the bar. We push the limits. We make things happen, and Hollywood will never be the same," a group calling themselves the Abstinence Clearinghouse (Rolling Stone last month described them as "The Young and the Sexless") said Wednesday that it will bring together 1,000 supporters in Hollywood next week to urge filmmakers to produce sex-free movies. The Sioux Falls, SD-based group said that it plans to hold its ninth Abstinence Leadership Conference from August 4-6 with the theme "Lights, Camera, NO Action."

[Shell Beau]

1. Nothing really wrong with that, IMO.

[flamingyouth]

2. Lights, Camera, NO Action?

That's so sad, I can't even mock it. :evilfrown:

[bridgit]

8. hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it...

that's a wrap, kids. let's go home :rofl:

[hyphenate]

3. I'd rather have sex

than violence in films!

[Shell Beau]

5. That is true!

[Midlodemocrat]

33. Agreed. (nt)

[kenny blankenship]

4. I heard they demonstrate by whacking off in darkened movie theaters

it's their form of protest: to dramatize the salacious nature of modern Hollywood offerings by bringing the sexual response of the audience into the realm of visible, overt acts.

[Shell Beau]

7. WTF?

[kenny blankenship]

11. Oh yes, it confronts the rest of the audience you see

with the reality of their consumption of star-driven, vapid, lascivious cinema. Feeling scopophilic, America? Well here's what you're really looking for! Here's the nature of your kind of looking. Plot, dialogue, special effects--it's all just superfluous window dressing around the true object of your movie-going: vicarious, masturbatory pleasure. Of course with any provocative and confrontational protest tactic it can backfire and have the reverse of the intended effect. Some theater patrons leave screaming abuse at the management and promising to "get the law". Others, however, bring bibs.

[Shell Beau]

12. Surely you jest!

[kenny blankenship]

14. Would I joke about something as serious as public anonymous sex?

And please don't call me Shirley.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Right you are, Ken!

Don't get eliminated!

[XemaSab]

6. This is an important movement

If these people get some traction, they might actually publish lists of movies with sex and movies without sex, and do us all a favor.

:evilgrin:

[BlueIris]

23. Snerk. Good point. nt.

[Strawman]

35. Yes. I keep looking at my bank account and praying...

that someone will come along and save me from full frontal nudity.

[matcom]

9. so, nobody must be getting laid in Sioux Falls. i am SHOCKED

SHOCKED I TELLS YA! :freak:

[LynneSin]

10. Is this where your lil yellow guy hangs out at nights?

[KitchenWitch]

17. Hey, I am about 3 hours drive from Sioux Falls

don't knock it :D

[LastKnight]

26. HEY! I Live in Sioux Falls!

and youre right. this place sucks.

but not in the way that will get anyone excited.

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. So...

film, which can at its best be a fine art form, should just ignore a central part of the human condition. What a bunch of pathetic, repressed f*kt-up hammerheads. Fundies make me :rofl:, at least when they don't make me :cry:.

[Misunderestimator]

15. LOL! "The Young and the Sexless"

Oh Puhlease... just pay attention to the ratings and leave our films alone, children. :eyes:

[BlueIris]

18. Oh, for fuck's sake (pun intended). These idiots give celibate folks

like me--you know, the kind who just don't need or want sex right now and aren't interested in judging others who do (because they are ALSO normal human beings)--a really, fucking bad name (more puns absolutely intended). I hate these morons. Kids: Celibacy is fine. For yourselves. For your own reasons. Or to honor your own, self-respecting, sensical definitions of faith, spirituality, love and relationships. I "get" that. But for god sakes, put the banners down and ask yourselves rather you really want to be living like this or not, and for what reasons. Then, get lives. Please. So the rest of us can stop feeling embarrassed for you.

[liontamer]

32. well said eom

[madinmaryland]

19. What about the mindless and gratuitous violence in movies?

:wtf: Isn't that just as bad?

They'd rather see someone get chopped up than a love scene?

:argh:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. They should protest EVERYthing in movies that gets blowed up good!

[DBoon]

21. There is sex in "March of the Penguins"

So I expect a protest for this film as well.

The only nature films they approve of are those starring single cell life forms.

"March of the Amoeba"

[LynneSin]

25. asexual budding - how unnatural!! Best we protest this one too

:D

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Oh. That'll Do It

Because we all know that a 1000 puritans have so much economic clout.

Dumbasses.
The Professor

[jonnyblitz]

24. is this another Hillary project? nt

[KG]

28. follow the money - it's a DLC front.

[LastKnight]

27. on behalf of my hometown of

Sioux Falls, im sorry, america... we shouldnt have let them out, but they were annoying us so badly we had to send them away.

[LynneSin]

29. It's ok, we blue staters are going to give you the honorary title of....

...Blue Stater!!

:D

[LastKnight]

30. sweet

i do spend 8 months of the year in MN... although on a particularily conservitve college campus. but yea. it counts i guess.

but thank you, i accept the title with honor.

[liontamer]

31. why can't they just not have sex

and not go around screaming about it. These groups that need to publicly proclaim their abstinence are just exhibitionists who need a different outlet.

[Hugin]

34. Mmmkay... And while you're at it...

Remove all the violence... music... dialog...

Gods forbid any dancing...

Keep those corsets tight and those bloomers below the
ankles.

Or.. Hey! I've got an idea. Why don't you make your
own movies!

How about it?