As Christians We Need to Talk About Nudity In Films...
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Elizabeth Busby dives into the challenging topic of nudity and gratuitous sexual content in popular films. Elizabeth shares her heartfelt thoughts on how these scenes impact viewers and how to respond from a faith-based perspective. She also discusses the biological and psychological effects of such content and offers guidance on maintaining personal and relational integrity. If you have ever struggled with how to navigate explicit content in movies, this video is for you.
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Hey...let's give a shout out to the actors/actresses that have said NO to doing these type of scenes! And stood strong in their conviction 👏 Neal McDonough comes to mind, but their are others
Shoutout to them! Let's keep all of these actors in our prayers.
I LOVE how much love you have for humans. The fact that you don’t want to name any names shows that you care about the dignity of every human regardless of the person’s choices. God bless you and the TOB Institute.
I stopped being into movies many years ago. Hollywood has become a stronghold of worldly sin, and more recently, a vehicle for the dismantling of all that is good in our culture. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.
True. I find myself going back into the 90s and earlier to find shows and movies to watch anymore.
Same here. Secular movies are not compatible with the committed Christian life, opposed to the mediocre one. Most of the relationships they portray are sinful. They show sex scenes, even the suggestion is bad for the imagination. Romantic comedies are nonsense, they make dating look like a game. There is no such thing in the Christian Life as dating: it is courting to be married. Best to disregard movies all together if you are a serious Christian and want to get to Heaven.
@@SevereFamine even for the plot/intelligence/creativity factor, I already chose almost only XX century movies, let alone the moral part.
El desnudo en el cine es sensacional...y depende de la estética con la cual se muestre...y como todo depende con la inteligencia con la cual se mire...si quieres ponerle tinte morbo y vulgar, pues así se verá...fome hablar de estos temas como si fueramos adolescentes...😢
Thank you for talking about this. It is an elephant in the room!
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You're so welcome! Thank you for watching.
My parish was going to have a screening of the movie! “Black Robe”, which is rated R, full of sex and nudity, and violates the Diocesan Safe Environment policy. I thought maybe the pastor didn’t know because it was a parishioner who was leading the screening, so I sent him an email with parental information of everything that the movie contained.
He responded back to me that he was not getting involved in this and would not speak to me further about the matter. I was flabbergasted. I sent my original email to the pastor as well as his response to me to the Bishop and raised my concerns. I never received a response, but the screening was quietly canceled.
That movie is alright. It shows the heroism of the Jesuits but kinda promotes religious indifferentism
Great video. This is part of the reason I stopped watching Bridgerton. The scenes are so explicit I don’t think they can be distinguished from pornography. It’s very unfortunate because it is a riveting show. I just can’t justify giving attention to a show scandalizing young minds the way it does in those scenes. God bless!
I’m glad I was off put by Bridgerton before I got to any of those parts. It has become an industry staple in every show nowadays target at an “adult” audience. Like why do these perverts think we want this
Thank you for watching and sharing your insight. God bless you, too!
It sucks that I find those scenes in good movies.
Reject Hollywood embrace Farming Simulator
Amen brother
Thanks for the video, Elizabeth. This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while. I thought that since movies are art, it would be okay to show nudity because the human body is beautiful. But it makes sense that it isn’t worth it-especially because, due to our fallen nature, we view the body with a twisted lens and get aroused.
how about in animated form? the only way we get people to stop sexualizing everything is to bring them back to the fundamentals. we cannot make the same mistake protestants made and adopt a puritanical view, which pushed people onto the other extreme side. we can’t make immodesty go away so why don’t we provide support to help people to not give into lust.
@@airinkujo3207If nudity is depicted through animation, there is a natural veil because the artist can manipulate the designs to appear less realistic. It’s all about the artist’s choice. They can present the body in a way that arouses, or in a way that allows the audience to enter into the mystery of the body. I agree that we ought to avoid extreme Protestant prudishness. As for viewing the body without a sexualized lens, there is still hope. The catechism says that, despite our fallen nature, purity of heart is attainable. The ideal is to see the body with the original innocence Adam and Eve had when they first saw each other. It was never taught to them, however; they just naturally had it. So yes, I agree that we should proclaim the beauty of the body, while also employing individual introspection to correct our broken views.
I am a huge fan of cinema and your video gave me answers for things that puzzled me for a long time. Keep up with the great work that you're doing, and do not be afraid of touching on those delicate themes. Many of us need answers or even to know what questions to ask, and this channel provide many of them. God bless you all
Thank you for the affirmation @wackstack9684 !
Is there a Catholic movie rating service? That would be very helpful.
Turning that function over to the government/movie-making cartel was a very bad idea.
Regulatory capture is a thing.
I don't really know, but on IMDb you can find the parental guidance section for almost every movie. Hope this helps!
There’s multiple sites like parent previews that tell the content for movies like language and nudity.
@@konichiwa373 I’m asking for a specifically Catholic one.
Loved it. We need more of TOB!❤
I recommend the podcast from Magdala Ministries, particularly the episode Why 'Men are Visual, Women Want Romance' is a False Dichotomy.
I want both and I’m a man
I love this! So true! Thank you for speaking with honesty and conviction. This is eye-opening 👏🏻
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Awesome video ❤ Thank you 🙏 and God bless you ✝️🕊️
You're so welcome! God bless you too!
Thanks, Elizabeth! I appreciate you and your ministry. You no doubt know, there’s also spontaneous versus responsive desire that plays into this.
Thank you for watching!
This was a very articulate explanation. I think it is very important to speak about and you brought up points that I had not considered as well. Thank you!
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Great video! Thank you!❤🙏
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Thank you for the video. I was also thinking about the fact that my younger brothers or cousins might cross the living room while I watch a movie or a series with explicit scenes. That would be very stressful for me because I don't want them to see wrong presentation of sexuality. Why would I watch something and be stressed because it might hurt me or my beloveds? I don't watch that content anymore because I don't know what would come in a movie.
Awesome video Elizabeth! Both this video and the modesty bikini video as well, very uplifting and also truth revealing. As a man striving for a Christ centered life, discerning marriages resources and these videos are crucial. Keep up the awesome work :)
We're so glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching, brother.
Thank you for this video 🙏🏻
You're so welcome!
Thanks for talking about this!
You're so welcome!
Seriously thank you so much 🙏 after getting deliverance and coming back to Christ I stopped watching movies and all. This also helps me articulate what was in my heart for not wanting too. It really goes deep into the soul
Hello Teresa! Thank you for your comment and we're so glad you find the video helpful. Elizabeth is not saying that one shouldn't watch any movies at all but wants to bring the conversation about nudity in films to the surface.
Thanks, Elizabeth.
You're so welcome!
That was beautiful. Thank you. My wife and I try not to watch anything over PG13 in an attempt to guard our hearts and minds and our love for God and one another. I appreciate you talking about this.
We're so glad it blessed you! Please pray for us. We're praying for your marriage.
IMDb is really good at explaining what is in the film and how much, so if there’s a film I want to see I check to see if there is nudity in it.
All glory to God, stopped watching new releases years ago.
And this is why I stick to animated films.
Context CAN be critical in this discussion here. What about The Godfather undressing scene on the wedding night between the husband Michael and wife Apollonia? With that said though I do feel the spouses are the ONLY ones who are allowed to see EACH OTHER naked.
I actually cannot watch movies or shows with nudity anymore. I have started doing the Matt Fradd thing and researching it beforehand to prescreen
Great video! 👏 Thank you for making it. I'm sharing!
Thank you for watching and sharing!
Loved this video but it got me thinking. I’m a revert and newer to modesty and love reading. My favorite genres are fantasy and mystery with a romance subplot but recently I find I’m encountering a lot more “smut” hidden in these genres and end up either skipping the sex scenes and possibly missing info for the main plot or just put the book down altogether. Genres that used to allude to characters having sex now have graphic descriptions and it’s so frustrating. Do you think this video applies the same to reading sex scenes?
I would say yes, absolutely. Reading a graphic sex scene can be just as arousing as seeing it on screen, so I’ve found that skimming over those passages is the best way to go. It’s the reader’s form of a “ceiling scene”. It’s really refreshing to find authors that are committed to not including those scenes in their stories, too!
@@fr.andygutierrez5356 thanks for the reply Father. If you have any suggestions on authors, I’d appreciate it!
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Thanks for talking about this! Do you think it’s still ok to watch movies with nudity/pornographic scenes even if you skip over those parts? My husband thinks it’s fine to skip over when they come up but I’d rather not watch the movie at all since it’s still likely we see some of it as we are trying to fast forward and also I don’t want to support those types of movies or shows if they choose to have that in there.
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Thank you for the great video and your ministry. My very specific question is whether or not you have thoughts about the sex scene about making a sex scene in Love Actually (and I guess comedic sex scenes in general). Many of your thoughts and points in the video apply but I can't help but think sometimes there's a cost to making art*. I could be wrong. I rewatch that movie almost every holiday season and I want to know if I should just continue to avert my eyes or avoid watching it altogether (which would be unfortunate because it's a great movie). Thanks!
*I guess the best way to frame it formally would be to say "it is not intrinsically evil to visually simulate sex involving full or nearly full nudity" because the scene is very graphic
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Now what about nude photography (I mean like pregnant photoshoots or artistic photography)? Can the dignity of these people be maintained? Or does that compromise their dignity? Is there some nuance here?
There's definitely room for nuance here. It depends both on the intentions of the creator of the content, as well as the viewer. Nudity in the Sistine Chapel is not meant to elicit sexual arousal, and you are not supposed to use it that way either. The nudity in popular media is intended to arouse you and temp you to sin for profit.
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The first time TV permitted to show a male and female in bed was on the Flinstone's. Look at TV & film today.
Back in 1966 I read an article in the Jehovah's Witnesses magazine The Watchtower which asked:
"Do Bible Principles govern your choice of entertainment ?"
For myself, I have to turn any show off as soon as it dips into this stuff. I recently had to turn off the sopranos which I was hoping I would enjoy, (was recommended by many Catholics) and it’s just so awful and immoral I couldn’t get through it. It’s to the point where I am made uncomfortable at work because people will recommend shows and I basically have to ask people if what they are recommending me to watch is softcore porn, as I’m not into that. That’s a weird conversation to have to have in a work environment.
This is maybe just what you end up with in a culture that has 100% normalized porn use in the adult population.
Read the parents guide on IMDb. Those explain if there’s sexual content in tons of movies to see if the movie is right for you (without spoiling it)
Honestly, I think that it's very optimistic to think pushing sexual content in movies is just motivated by money. I do think that it is also largely motivated by people pushing an ideological agenda onto unsuspecting viewers.
I understand the argument against sex scenes and I don't think watching them is a good thing. Honest question though is if there was non-sexual nudity in a movie. Ones off the top of my head would be Europa Europa, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchmen, or a totally non-violent, non-sexual, clean movie that takes place in a nudist camp/beach what would you think?
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Not a Christian here, but this topic has been making me feel so uncomfortable too. Especially when I'm watching a movie with my boyfriend and some naked wiman pops up 😢
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Many shows on Amazon, Netflix, etc. contain nudity/sexual things more frequently in their first few episodes or first season, it would appear as something of a hook to get more people (men) watching. Why would they do that? More viewers means more money.
"For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs." 1 Timothy 6:10
This channel used to be an amazing source of information and theology. I don't even disagree completely, but I just can't take these videos seriously anymore. Go watch SNL church lady skits. At least those are funny.
Chat should I stop playing gta online?
This is why I'll never forgive Oppenheimer, such a great film ruined by it's unnecessary graphic scenes
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Evolutionary perspective? You think we come from apes?
A very distant very very very close relative yes the science is clear on that I thought you guys believe in science always spouting off oh a human is born from conception like as soon as the guy ejacualtes that’s a human well science says we share an ancestor with apes so yes
Edgy
We know that Adam and Eve were the first to have human dignity. For our purposes, it is irrelevant how God brought them into existence, since the Bible is not a scientific resource. This is why the magisterium of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church does not make any scientific assertions but rather encourages all kinds of objective analysis.
No. We *are* apes.
@@t-06 lol, speak for yourself
I don't think my comment on the other video was positive. I think videos like that can be very harmful!
Yeah, I thought Catholicism was differntiated from the Puritans. It feels like that's just the introductory rhetoric, though.