Why is the movie not categorized into the Porno Genre??

Exactly! If anything, porn is people having sex and enjoying it, and making the viewer feel pleasure. This film portrays sex as an addiction, and it's uncomfortable and even painful to watch at times. It's sad, people. I mean, seriously, not even watching Fassbender, who is a very handsome man, is enjoyable, because the character himself is not enjoying it either.

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But I was sexually aroused during all sex scenes, is there something wrong wit me :(

Seriously, you guys don't see how this is, if anything, anti-porn? Or rather its goal is to show how pornography and a sex addiction can negatively affect your life?

It's the same thing as an anti war film - I know it's hard to believe, but they just may end up showing a few scenes of war, and often they are very violent. Or a film about a drug or alcohol addiction just may end up showing some drug use and heavy drinking (oh, they shouldn't show that! - are they advocating drug use/heavy drinking?). In the same regard, a movie about a sex addiction just may need to show some scenes of graphic sex to drive home what the main character subjects himself to and how it affects him and the people around him.




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totally agree

If someone says to me "American History X seems like a white power recruitment film" or "Trainspotting promotes heroin use" I would think that they are interested in being a white supremacist or heroin addict. Calling Shame a porno would make me think that person is turned on by tormented, disconnected men who are psychologically damaged and self destructive.

But since that obviously wasn't the intention of the film, I don't think this is a porno. Although it was really hot when he was crying during orgasm. Oh and how about that suicide scene in the bathroom? That was pretty hot too. And don't get me started on the scene where he couldn't get it up. How sexy is that!? I've definitely seen all those things in porn before. On second thought I think it's true, this IS a porno.

BS. Because he "had" to? That's pretty convenient. Sex Addiction is the one of the more banal inventions of the western society. Everyone basically by definition can lay a claim to it, no pun intended.

I think we can all agree that any depiction or indeed mention at all of sex automatically makes anything porn.

Therefore, this thread is porn.

Porn is meant to titillate. This was not meant to titillate. That some people were titillated while watching this is another business, titillation was not its selling point, neither explicitly nor implicitly. Its selling point was a psychological affliction and its effect on the life of the main character, who has a pretty miserable life. Sex was not even the focus of the movie, anymore than drugs are the focus of a movie about drug addiction (in both cases, the focus are the afflicted individuals).

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