Does Hollywood Hate Gay Sex?
That’s what writer Ramin Setoodeh wonders. Two points: First, Hollywood doesn’t exactly show much heterosexual eroticism lately, either. Think about the current box office hits: “Mission Impossible”? Hardly steamy. “Sherlock Holmes“? Love scenes are jokey, homoeroticism is for laughs. “Alvin and the Chipmunks”? Please. “Dragon Tattoo”? Longest sex scene involves rape, and the lovemaking scene did the usual Hollywood thing of showing the woman full-frontal but not the man. Even inside movies like “Shame” (pictured) relegate gay sex to the shadows. Second, Setoodeh makes a highly relevant point that what mainstream Hollywood moguls fear is not so much showing the gay sex act itself as the gay sex act when love is attached to it. That’s what frightens folks. And there, in a nutshell, you have just about everything that is wrong with American society and culture.
