Were you allowed or forbidden to watch movies with sex in them?

[Mitchell]

When you were growing up, were your parents premissive or forbidding about allowing you to watch movies with sex in them?
My parents were quite liberal in fact. They never segragated me, and took me to see every movie with coarse language and sex in it, feeling it was important I was exposed to all things in culture. I saw "Star 80", a very violent movie about the life of Dorothy Stratten with Mauriel Hemingway and Eric Roberts, which featured a very explicit sex scene, when I was about 12. I was also exposed to plenty of movies with four letter words in them at a very young age. My parents took me to see Saturday Night Fever when I was 7, not caring if I heard foul language, feeling it was part of the cultural growing up process. This being said, they did forbid me to watch one movie, and were almost militant about it through my teenage years, until one night in college I caught it on cable, and completed my "education" so to speak.
My parents were weird, they never outwardly said to me:" You cant watch a porno" Even though I never did until college. The one movie they "foamed at the mouths" about me seeing, so to speak, was the Diane Keaton movie:" Looking for Mr Goodbar". I had no clue why, but every time it came on TV and they were home, they would actually hover around my room to make sure I didnt watch it, and instructed my babysitters to turn it off if I was younger, they went out, and I was caught watching it. Finally, one night very late when I was home on a college break, I caught it on cable at about 3am, and saw it.
As people who have seen the movie know: "Goodbar" is the story of a promiscious New York woman, played by the wonderful Diane Keaton. I will admit that it is quite violent at the end, and, when I finally did get around to seeing it during freshman year in college, I saw why they didnt want me to see it. I can say that if I caught my child watching that movie, I wouldnt be happy either. It is an adult movie, one of the few I've seen that isnt rated X that I still wouldnt recommend for people under 18. I was glad that I finally did see it, but it is just amazing that it was this forbidden movie for me, especially from parents who were liberal about pre marital sex and other movies with sex in them.
Are there any movies that any forum members were forbidden to watch when they were younger? (I mean like more mainstream ones other than the obvious "Debbie Does Dallas" or such? (Which I confess to never having seen by the way, LOL) I would be very interested to others experiences with this issue. Thanks.

Mitch

 

[BlackmoonDoll]

I was allowed to. My parents didn't rent any hardcore movies anyways. Now a days though i feel that every movie in them has alot of sex and cussing in them. In less your talking about family and kid movies like Disney ones.... then yeah there is really none in there. But thats society for ya!

 

[evilwomanhehe]

Hi Mitchell:

My parents never let me see a movie with sex in it. I remember if I was watching something and one of my parents were sitting right beside me they would cover my eyes if a violent scene was showing.

Victoria

 

[Knox The Hatter]

No! 😀

I remember sitting in a theater, with my parents, watching Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman'. There was a sex scene, and I turned and looked at my father, the cooze hound, and he's smiling at me in a rather ribald fashion. "You like that, huh?"

 

[giggleygirl25]

my parents allowed us to watch certain things that may have had a hint of sex in certain scenes...but i think they wanted us to keep our innocence of youth for as long as possible....although i do remember teasing my younger brother for bolting out of the room when the strip club scene in Dragnet(with Dan Aykroyd(plz forgive my spelling) and Tom Hanks)came on at my grandparents house...i've never seen him so embarrassed.

 

[the_Baron]

when didn't we watch a movie without sex? oh yeah, there was herbie the love bug.

 

[tickledorange]

I rememmber when I was a kid and like violence or sex or things like that came on TV, my dad would be like "woah" and cover my eyes until it was over. I'd just be like "What's going on?" and he'd be like "adults only". Apparently, the rest of the show was OK though LOL. 😛

 

[Knox The Hatter]

my parents never did that to me. I think that they had the foresight to realize that by doing that, it could really trigger a curiosity in me for the interesting side of life.

Another time, we were watching 'The Choirboys', with George C. Scott and Stacy Keach. This movie was my first exposure to the very existence of the S&M world. I had absolutely no understanding of how a man could be dressed up in a hood and a dog collar or whatever, to have some six-one dom dressed as the Catwoman lay a lash to him, to be honest, at 15, it disconcerted me greatly. I asked my father just what this was all about, and for one of the few times in his life, his tongue was completely tied. All he could say was, "some people like that." My mom concurred.

They never shielded me from anything, they were not that kind of people...

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

I don't recall any sex scenes as causing any undue stress, but some of the films I went to with my parents when I was very young that DID have an impact due to violent content were:
FUZZ--Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds starred in this comedy/drama about a police unit. Thoughout the movie, there's these sick teens who catch bums on fire for kicks. At a tender age, this whole concept disturbed me greatly.
A MAN CALLED HORSE--I think it was Richard Harris in this? Way before DANCES WITH WOLVES, a white guy gets initiated into an Indian tribe. In this one, he gets impaled through the front of his chest by some claws with tethers attached and then lifted off the ground in some crazy savage ceremony. Again, I was like, "WTF?".
WILLARD--This one was my own fault. I had a choice between seeing WILLARD(the original) or WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Of course, seeing WILLY WONKA years later, I decided that it was a pretty freaky flick, too.

 

[steph]

well...

Mine weren't as smart as Knoxie's. We were forbidden to watch anything sexual or violent, that meant PG (i.e. Pink Pather, etc) at the very raunchiest. So what did we do about it? What normal curious kids did~sneaked over to our friend's houses whose "cool" parents could care less!

XOXO

my parents never did that to me. I think that they had the foresight to realize that by doing that, it could really trigger a curiosity in me for the interesting side of life.

They never shielded me from anything, they were not that kind of people...

 

[crydun]

My mom was very strict about this. I remember I didn't get to watch Sweet Dreams(the life story of Patsy Cline) until I was like sixteen. (Now, I own the video! lol) Also, when we went to the movies, I never got to see anything over a PG rating. And now, my mom and I watch R rated thrillers together. Life is eerie, huh?