Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
I wish the title had not been edited from its original: "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny."  It captures so much better the essence of this rambling incomprehensible thesis that action movies have many beautiful people not having any sex.  Alternate title: "Everyone drives cars in cities and no one is seen parking."  To use his example, <i>Starship Trooper</i> is an action movie with satirical subtext, it is not served by having more horny people bang.  Every narrative has to be edited to GET TO THE POINT. And then he leans on this faulty premise to criticize a bunch of weirdly unrelated stuff, movies made after the 90s, the cluttered interiors, McMansions, swoles, BMIs and 9/11.  What?<p>There's plenty of beautiful naked people having sex on screen, uncomfortably many.  Where has this writer been?  <i>The Tudors</i>, anachronistic boobs and asses and fornicating beautiful people since 2007.  This formula was so successful it's repeated in <i>Games of Thrones</i>, the trope so commonly employed it earned the moniker of "sexposition", naked people banging + dialogue = sex + exposition. It's also repeated in <i>Versailles</i>, <i>Outlander</i>, and from what I've seen of ep.1 <i>Bridgerton</i>.  There's also plenty of beautiful people having sex, or at least demonstrating their horny-ness in RomComs, <i>Sleeping With Other People</i> comes to mind.  Somehow I don't think the author was the audience for any of the above.  He's complaining that there's not enough horny people in the movies <i>he</i> is watching.