Yeah, I think the title is a bit misleading and manages to make both the scientists and the dogs appear stupid.

I share your frustration with the election result. I’d like to point out that venting it on strangers and making others more miserable is not the healthy way to go about it.

These things are all true. But the history tended to go the progress direction. Slavery was abolished, so was segregation, women got more and more of their rights. Things were gradually and often painfully getting better. Now it regresses.

I think that’s why op’s asking in the first place, right?

If you were republican and asked whether the democrats are as enthusiastic this time as the last time, it would be a perfectly legitimate question. The fact is, people tend to shade themselves from the online madness (good for them), but then they can’t be sure whether the madness continues with full force or not.

Asking about it seems logical. But neither you nor I are able to answer.

There are also cheap specialized squishy water bottles with little shower-like hooked ending that can be used as a bidet if you don’t want to bother with insalling a real one.

People learn all the time. The fact that you are already familiar with something doesn’t mean everyone is. Please don’t be unkind.

I just realised Dr. could work as a shortened version of Drag, so you could think of your future title as “Drag Firstname Lastname”.

Catholics are diverse, I suppose the Chinese ones might not be into the Apocalypse stuff that much, not everyone is. I don’t really know, though, could be interesting.

Explain that to the insurance company, that seems to be the relevant problem here.

Ready to ponder.

Breathing and eating is represented pretty abundantly in films. Pooping not so much, probably also because it’s a taboo. To be fair, apart from needing a break from time to time, pooping doesn’t usually really influence your long term life decisions and relationships.

Yeah, sure, I didn’t want to say there are no other facetes, just that sex is one of the important ones. I wasn’t really askin :) The death and birth are kinda key, right?

I do have many movies specifically, from the top of my head: the Poor Things, Brokeback Mountain, Breaking the Waves, the 5th Element (where it’s just for fun and it’s ok), the English Patient.

This makes no sense to me. What else would be worthy of being called grandiosely a facet of human experience if not sex? Sex has it’s olace among the importan experiences of human life - it’s how human life starts. It’s an important driving force, it influences people’s life, decisions, relationships, even lack of sex and the resulting frustration influences human behaviour. Asexuality is actually very interesting for the same reason - it’s a lack of something that most people experience. I wpuldn’t mind more films woth openly asexual characters. Falling in love is depicted very often even though there are aromantic people who don’t experience it.

You use strong words for my taste, although I would agree that Americans are much more prudent than Europeans. But the graph we’re discussing here shows a decline in sex depiction in the movies. It shows there are less sex scenes than there used to be. The decline cannot be explained by the differences between the USA and Europe.

I think many people feel uneasy because they were taught sex (and nudity!) is something naughty, shameful. It’s easy to feel that way when you grow up in certain culture and it’s a hard thing to break free of even when you’re adult and know better.

Sexual frustration is a massive part of peoples lives too. Only asexual people escape the influence of sex.

Even cheating can have an impact (mostly negative) and in general, sex or even the absense thereof influences our life and therefore is worth depicting in a movie. Bad sex scenes are as awkward and boring as bad action scenes. Both can be done well and be plot relevant or artistic.

Shitting and peeing is not being cathegorized as a vice, unlike sex!

This, I think, may be one of the reasons, yes. I have a feeling it’s a combination of this (which I see as a change for the better) with people being a bit more prudish (which is not very good in my opinion). And the latter might be the reason for the former, when I think about it, but not necessarily. I wonder whether there’s some good research on this.