We don’t have cable. We use Netflix. I’m just not going to pay for garbage we don’t need to be watching. My kids get to see the latest movies but don’t see any reason to show them sexually explicit scenes that aren’t part of a healthy, married relationship. We are religious people. I don’t want any of my boys or my husband, for that matter, to develop an unhealthy, unrealistic idea about women and relationships.
This reminds me of my childhood. When I was a kid my dad liked R rated movies that were crime/action based themes that had violence and some nudity. Mom couldn't stand those films, in fact she loved Roger's and Hammerstein Musicals GAG and comedies.
So when I was about 13 or so Dad started taking me with him, in fact at that age those were the movies I was dying to see. Sometimes it was a drive-in and there was no telling what the 2nd and 3rd features were.
When I was 17 yrs old cable finally reached my neighborhood and my dad got us HBO to avoid those movie ticket prices. My youngest sister was about 7 then.
Funny thing is, both my sisters claim (as do their husbands) that they saved themselves for their husbands, even after us getting HBO and being able to watch R movies. (and yes, it was on all the TVs)
I still look back fondly to those days. Every-so often one of those movies turns up on cable and I think of those times with him.
Lesson 1 we learned : TV is not real.