And yes I say trilogy because the forth one while decent, you can tell it was made by different people and the charm of the characters was replaced for some more “modern” comedy choices, it came almost a decade after the third one after all.
I’m serious, is probably my favourite trilogy of all time, the comedy and raunch tone never gets old, the acting is surprisingly good. And the soundtrack is perfect.
Plus, yeah, nudity.
Shame people are too easily offended to get a character like stiffler in movies nowadays.
Gore and evil characters aren’t the same and you know it. And I’m not even American
So you’re ignoring the orgies, bdsm dungeon, and octopus fucking?
But they are portrayed differently and there are entire threads about how “modern audiences” don’t like the American Pie way.
The three things you mentioned there in The Boys were not for titillation, they were played for humor or shock as was the (overwhelmingly) male nudity. And the actions are mostly done by the bad guys. A butt shot of a Starlight body double in the most recent season isn’t comparable and is a stinger to someone being raped. Sex and sexuality is portrayed as kinda bad throughout.
American Pie was for titillation and the actions were carried out by the protagonists. Sex and sexuality is portrayed as a normal part of life.
The OP is correct. It was never about not being able to reference creepy sex practices by bad people.
Interesting perspective
None of them are even comparable to American pie. They’re played as gore or violence more than anything. Those never went away, but the playful, almost porn like positive and characters like stiffler … That shit doesn’t fly sm nowadays anywhere. Sex is only romantic or violent.