Actor William H. Macy, who plays the priest in the movie Sessions, expresses healthy ideas about sex and violence in the movies. In an interview for The Guardian, he states that violence is accepted or even celebrated, yet sex is still treated as something that's shameful.
Macy says. "I don't know much but I know this: violence is bad and sex is good. Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good. But violence is bad – it's always bad, there are no exceptions. It's bad. And it's ugly and we've got to paint it as it is."
Chapter 16 of Clueless at the Top (pages 181-185) tells the story of a producer who works to change movie ratings, stating that if we rated sex and violence equally according to what people saw in real life, then the violence that we now think is normal for children to see is comparable to allowing a six-year-old to go to an XXX movie theater and allowing three-year-olds to watch sex orgies!
Macy puts it this way: "I think we're ill-served by our ratings board, who need to get into therapy, in my opinion."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/17/william-h-macy-bad-sex-was-good
