As stated before, there has been somewhat of larger acceptance of homosexuality in the past decades, but the fact remains that sex scenes between two people of the same gender are still infrequently exhibited on the silver screen. Even more so, both scenes despite their completely opposite interpretations of sex, depict what some would consider destructive behavior. This is most obvious in Mysterious Skin; considering that the scene is literally circumvented in rape and violence, nothing positive emanates from this version of sex. Brokeback Mountain’s scene is a positive representation of sexual intercourse. However, if one takes into account the key factor that lies around the
As stated before, there has been somewhat of larger acceptance of homosexuality in the past decades, but the fact remains that sex scenes between two people of the same gender are still infrequently exhibited on the silver screen. Even more so, both scenes despite their completely opposite interpretations of sex, depict what some would consider destructive behavior. This is most obvious in Mysterious Skin; considering that the scene is literally circumvented in rape and violence, nothing positive emanates from this version of sex. Brokeback Mountain’s scene is a positive representation of sexual intercourse. However, if one takes into account the key factor that lies around the