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Originally Posted by bns  I think it's just cultural. I heard once that there is an inverse correspondence between a culture's comfort with sex and death. That is, a culture will either be comfortable with sex or with death, but never with both. Unfortunately I can't find a citation for this at the moment, but I believe it. I think it's actually easy to see in the U.S. because the older generation is comfortable with death but not sex, while the younger generation is the exact opposite. Mention sex to a 50-year-old conservative American and you get uncomfortable fidgeting and odd looks. OTOH, mention someone's death to your average twenty-something and you get the same uncomfortable fidgeting. Since violence is directly related to death, I think it goes a long way toward explaining why as a society we're OK with violence but not OK with sex. |
If you link death directly to violence, I absolutely disagree with what you said. There are plenty of peaceful and conservative cultures out there which are neither comfortable with sex nor with violence and on the other hand there are cultures which are comfortable with both ( See for yourself the rap music and it's influence in US, don't they propagate both sex and violence ?). Either way, it is not difficult to nick pick stereo types to prove it right or wrong.
And about the older generation despising sex has nothing to do with death, it's purely a generation gap. They have lived their entire life with the same notion and are not ready to compromise on the values which they think are right.