## Metadata - Author: [[Blood Knife]] - Full Title:: Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/ - Read date:: [[2026-08-30]] ## Highlights Esto y el "no one is horny" no se refiere a que nos pongan más o menos esos cuerpos, si no a que el cine ya no juega con ellos, no los erotiza, no incluye (tantas) escenas de sexo como en el pasado. Y el por qué es porque ahora es una inversión para algo que no es el disfrute (la guerra?). En contexto: el título se ha convertido en frase hecha en la crítica cultural, aparece citado en la Wikipedia sobre las críticas al MCU, en reseñas de cine (por ejemplo, sobre Challengers), en temarios universitarios de estudios de género... > even as they desexualize it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t8as9bqex21gk9eqny705)) > When revisiting a beloved Eighties or Nineties film, Millennial and Gen X viewers are often startled to encounter long-forgotten sexual content content: John Connor’s conception in *Terminator*, Jamie Lee Curtis’s toplessness in *Trading Places*, the spectral blowjob in *Ghostbusters*. These scenes didn’t shock us when we first saw them. Of *course* there’s sex in a movie. Isn’t there always? > The answer, of course, is not anymore—at least not when it comes to modern blockbusters ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18s04bk34wz8h335v8w100e)) > Let’s not pretend that Old Hollywood was a progressive haven of body positivity. Since the departure of voluptuous vamp Theda Bara from the silver screen, actors have always gone to extremes to maintain a certain look. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18s1rzqm12j7nv40jjmqfb4)) > old films still featured recognizable human bodies and human faces—bodies that could theoretically be achieved by a single person without the aid of a team of personal trainers, dieticians, private chefs, and chemists. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18s61hrj7wz892sswb3y1y3)) > Compare this to homes in films now: massive, sterile cavernous spaces with minimalist furniture. Kitchens are industrial-sized and spotless, and they contain no food. There is no excess. There is no mess. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18sdw12shca8fjppfw909k4)) > A body is no longer a holistic system. It is not the vehicle through which we experience joy and pleasure during our brief time in the land of the living. It is not a home to live in and be happy. It, too, is a collection of features: six pack, thigh gap, cum gutters. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18snbctf82tn07dvck0bbpa)) > Our bodies are investments, which must always be optimized to bring us… what, exactly? Some vague sense of better living? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18srk9zh2pz9zxnk07fk6br)) > Solitary exercise at the gym also had a social, rather than moral, purpose. People worked out to look hot so they could attract other hot people and fuck them. Whatever the ethos behind it, the ultimate goal was pleasure. > Not so today. Now, we are perfect islands of emotional self-reliance, and it is seen as embarrassing and co-dependent to want to be touched. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18swgz726zyds5z5029c028)) > Contemporary gym ads focus on rigidly isolated self-improvement: be your best self. Create a new you. We don’t exercise, we don’t work out: we *train*, ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18sxcem7g619gdhc3g0w65e)) > When a nation feels threatened, it gets swole. Germans and Norwegians became [**obsessed with individual self-improvement through physical fitness**](https://www.movementhealth.com.au/news/physical-culture-movement/) around the end of the Napoleonic Era. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t1bcvperhd84bfqj6frch)) > Then the Nineties hit, the Berlin Wall fell, and spandex and sweatbands became hilariously passe. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t21a1tt1461cf16172yp0)) > the new muscle era lacks the eroticism of Eighties action cinema. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t3m2eb7e2z6yw7sfz8c83)) > Today’s stars are action figures, not action heroes. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t5b9d76x8s7g8byy11q53)) > maybe having to live with roommates or our parents makes it a little awkward to bring a partner home; ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m18t6qeac0ne72fs9zbsebyc))