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Originally Posted by nguirado

So, a movie can't be explicit if it doesn't show actual penetration?]OK. My mistake. I didn't know that.

It doesn't have to be penetration. Two women can quite easily make a sex scene that is quite explicit, or there's the heterosexual oral version.

It's the same difference as "implicit" and "explicit" when we talk about what we write and say. "This and that "implies" that [whatever]". Or "he explicitly mentioned the status quo being unreasonably", to give a couple of examples.

I don't understand what my purpose would have been in lying. If it did have actual "explicit" sex, as you define it, I wouldn't have used the example, as I was looking for a mainstream movie with sex.

It's not just how I, personally, use it:

explicit
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ex·plic·it
   /ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/ Show Spelled[ik-splis-it] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal: explicit instructions; an explicit act of violence; explicit language.
2.
clearly developed or formulated: explicit knowledge; explicit belief.
3.
definite and unreserved in expression; outspoken: He was quite explicit as to what he expected us to do for him.
4.
described or shown in realistic detail: explicit sexual scenes.
5.
having sexual acts or nudity clearly depicted: explicit movies; explicit books.
6.
Mathematics . (of a function) having the dependent variable expressed directly in terms of the independent variables, as y = 3 x + 4. Compare implicit ( def. 4 ) .

(from dictionary.com).

Yes, I brought it up because I was curious. I didn't deny asking you the question.

I said that you should be able to show your kids all the non-explicit or explicit or whatever sex movies they can handle.

I'mbeginning to think you actually didn't know the meaning of the word, and therefore used it wrong, leading me to interpret the rest of the statement in a slightly less tolerant light.

I don't mind that people including mothers complain to Amazon about it. You can say that you'll only shop at stores that sell this or that. Amazon then has to make a decision. That's how freedom works.

I found that explaining how sex works doesn't take too long. The rest is moralizing: "Be a gentleman, many boys are after this, you don't do this because..., etc..." My parents and their parents and my wife's parents and her parents had similar training and they were all very nice people. But, that's irrelevant.

Yup, partly. But you're right that it doesn't take long if it's done properly, but I disagree that the rest is necessarily moralizing. It's only moralizing if you decide you will moralize (or rather: Not decide to not moralize), but rather talk with the kid instead of preaching morals. But that's a whole bucket of hurt if we're to talk about such nuances in specific circumstances, giraffe language and so on.