"Sex Sells"

Right now, we live in a society that is basically driven by the media. Whether it is spoon fed to us through the news on television or in newspapers, or crammed down our throats in movies, music, or magazines, most people in society thrive on the currents events going on around the world, be it wars, politics or which celebrity marriage is breaking up this week. Now, in this media-driven circus we call our everyday lives, sex, sexuality, and everything that it entails, is basically everywhere we turn, don't you agree?

I literally can't turn on the television without a sex scene in a soap opera, a shower scene in a prime-time drama, a teenage love/sex-triangle, or a couple TV doctors doing it in a broom closet. The ingenious idea that "sex sells" has worked it's way into everything we read, watch, listen to, or hear about almost every day. Now, exploring the reasons of why this is, is well, pointless. The reasoning behind why sex sells is not of interest because the innate sexual force is in all of us, and the media is only trying their best ways to exploit it.

What is interesting to me, is simply how sex is portrayed within the media, mostly narrowing in on movies and the film industry, and how it is has changed so drastically over the last twenty to thirty years. Also, how movie genre's have changed and how sex within each genre varies from each other and why (directors gender, viewer ratings, shock value, etc.) By exploring sexuality within movies, we might gain a better understanding of how the media has morphed sexuality into what it is today, and how the media (along with the film industry) has shaped societies moral standpoints, personal views, and overall opinions regarding sex.