Censorship has often been more effective at affecting our view of history than of the present, which is also how social conservatives get away with acting like gay people were invented in 1969 and trans people just landed our spaceship on Earth last week.
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The Hays Code was a strict (well, started out that way, kind of fell apart in the 60s before its official end) censorship regime imposed on American movies which resulted in the creation of lots of films that make it seem like people didn't know about sex and drugs in the 1950s.
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I mean, pre-Hays movies are extremely horny! People figured out what moving images are good at extremely quickly
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Yeah the first thing humans did as soon as we figured out abstract representation is draw a FUCKTON of dicks, butts, boobs and people fucking.
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Well that and mammoths so I guess furries are all-in?
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Hays Code ruined a lot of adaptations of noir novels too. If you have ever seen an old noir move and wondered why the ending is so disjointed with the rest of the film, that’s why.
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I have never thought about this. Like I knew about how Pompeii had all the dicks erased but never thought about modern stuff.
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Pompeii had... All the dicks erased???
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