1. Tiribulus says:

    Friend you and I just may get along.

  2. dmdutcher says:

    I’m not sure this is an issue in film. Most spec stuff usually is PG-13 if just to appeal to all audiences. Usually the hard R stuff that would use explicit sexuality doesn’t have much draw for Christians for sexuality’s sake. It’s more you have to put up with it if you like serious film of any type. The PG-13 is too young adult and shallow.

    As for stories, well, I don’ t think anyone is saying they should get a free pass. I think the problem is that very few people seem to be able to make a mature, complex story while keeping objectionable content down. They avoid sin, but wind up making spec fic books that read like middle grade novels.

    • Julie D says:

      Ditto Dutcher. We’ve had several conversations here about how to handle such content, but I think the majority of readers would agree that sex and violence can be gratuitus. That doesn’t mean they are all off-limits.

      • dmdutcher says:

        Yeah, and even then it’s a low threshold of content permissible. It’s not that we want to have full frontal nudity in a Christian art film, but more we’d like to be able to not have to tiptoe around the fact that people often do sleep with each other in and out of marriage. Or that yes, people do swear at times.

  3. notleia says:

    I would like to know where these theoretical porn-ish Christian media-makers-critiquers exist. Do they live next to the forest of magical rainbow unicorns? Granted, quite a bit depends on one’s threshold for sexy content, but isn’t a requirement for membership in the Noncontroversial Christian Tribe a low threshold for sexy content?

  4. Cap Stewart says:

    Notleia, I guess I’m not quite sure what your point/qustion is?

  5. Julie D says:

    I also suggest that readers of this post go and read the related post “sex scenes in movies don’t bother me” on the author’s blog. It clears up some of the questions I had from this post.

    • Cap Stewart says:

      Thanks, Julie! Yeah, the problem with blogging about this issue (which I have done quite a bit) is that each article by itself could be misunderstood half a dozen ways. That’s why I often try to include a lot of links to past articles; that allows me to be at least marginally more comprehensive.

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