The Sexualization of Evil is a Modern Phenomenon... But Why?

In this thought-provoking video, we dive deep into the cultural phenomenon of evil characters becoming increasingly sexualized in modern media. From vampires to witches, we explore how our perception of villains has shifted over time and what this says about our society.

Key topics covered:

* The evolution of vampire portrayals from Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire

* How witches transformed from scary to sexy in popular culture

* The impact of progressive ideologies on the portrayal of evil in media

* Analysis of the "forbidden sexy wrongness" trope

* The role of disgust-based morality in shaping cultural narratives

* How the left-right political divide influences media representation

* The sexualization of evil as a reaction to changing social norms

* The impact of promiscuity on female sexual preferences in media

* Cultural degradation and its correlation with product quality

* The phenomenon of "restock videos" as a female-oriented super stimulus

Whether you're a film buff, cultural critic, or just curious about the intersection of sexuality and morality in media, this video offers a fascinating look at how our perception of evil has evolved over time.

[00:00:00] Sirens in Greek myths were seen as beautiful, attractive, and evil. Yes. But, the stories were not told in a way that was designed to titillate you, and make you desire the siren. It was meant to teach you to be afraid of things that are evil. That use beauty to attract people.

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Well, I mean, I think they were trying to moralize and show that other people will use, like, seduce you for evil purposes. Well, which is, which is just steal your penis while you were asleep or something. It wasn't like they seduced your penis off. I would be, I, I thought like, look, I don't know. It could be a rumor, but some people are saying there's a few women in this town that steal penises.

I'd be like Let's put together a commission, people. We need to investigate. I know it's probably not true, but better safe than [00:01:00] sorry, right guys? Better safe than sorry. Am I right? I mean, look, look, look, that old crony panhandler lady, did she really contribute that much to the economy? Is it worth risking our penises? in this ultra lefty mindset, ugly meant morally good.

Yeah. Beautiful meant morally evil. However, these people are still human, right? And they still are more aroused by things that are beautiful. So they need to uglify them within a context. Holy smokes.

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Hello Simone! I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to discuss an interesting phenomenon, and it is interesting both in how lazily people dismiss it as a phenomenon. Okay. And in its implications for both our current culture, our evolutionary history, and humanity [00:02:00] more broadly.

Specifically, what I am talking about here, It's the modern phenomenon of evil things or things that were historically evil being coded as sexy, whether it's vampires or werewolves or witches. And the first thing people will be say is, of course, evil things are sexy, but they weren't always is sexy. And I don't know, two things, one patently not true.

We discuss it in our book. It's. We'll get to the forbidden sexy wrongness, which is wrong. Yeah. I mean, two, it wasn't always the case. In most cultures throughout history, even our own, evil wasn't sexy until like the, the 80s, maybe? Like, okay, take something like vampires, right? Yeah, original Dracula was Well, not [00:03:00] just that, but you look at the revitalization of vampires with Nosferatu, right?

Like, like that was the popular vampire of, when was Nosferatu popular? But also Dracula himself was not. Attractive from my memory, like in, in the book, in Bram Stoker's book. And then of course the original old movies was interview with a vampire, really the first movie to sexualize vampirism. Yeah, I think interview is well, so keep in mind interview is a vampire was done off of a book that had already become popular.

That was sexualizing vampires. Yeah.

So as much as a culture nerd as I am, I wasn't going to trust my off the head memory of was there any mainstream, sexually charged vampire movies before interview with the vampire? So I went to AI to ask and I got to mainstream, sexually charged empire movies or. And this is, I guess it shows how mainstream this was before [00:04:00] this. , one was the 1970s, the vampire lovers, this hammer horror film, explicitly portrayed lesbian vampires, and it was quite sexually charged for its time. And then the 1972 black ULA. This blaxploitation film featured a suave sexually appealing vampire protagonist.

Speaker: Yes, I only hunt Blackulous. Man, I specialize in hunting Black vampires. I don't know what the PC name for that is.

And I'm sure you can tell these are not at all cultural phenomenon in the way that interview with the vampire was.

So it does appear that interview with a vampire was the cultural inflection point. Too sexy vampire is being a mainstream concept.

But yeah, no, all vampires were, were sexualized. There was a scene, for example, in the. In the original Dracula book by Bram Stoker in which women vampires in Dracula's castle were like, I don't know, kind of leering at like, here is the thing about the Bram Stoker, Dracula sexualization of [00:05:00] evil is it was very similar to.

Like sirens, historically.

Speaker 4: The sun, the stars, the moon, the stars, the moon, the stars, The wind, the stars, until the end again.

Sirens in Greek myths were seen as beautiful, attractive, and evil. Yes. But, the stories were not told in a way that was designed to titillate you, and make you desire the siren. It was meant to teach you to be afraid of things that are evil. That use beauty to attract people.

If you look at modern iterations of this, they are not treated like the [00:06:00] sirens of old. It is about glorifying the raw sexuality associated with some acts of evil. As we see an interview with a vampire. And this is also a really interesting thing of this phenomenon. I mentioned this to someone and they're like, Oh, wow.

You know, Twilight, because this is what they go to in this generation. They're like, Twilight, you know, they're not really that evil, right? Like, they don't, like, Well, there, there are the, the, the good vampires and there are the evil vampires. It depends on what faction you're in. The movie that really created this genre, I would say, like, like, really, really, really, really set it in stone was, it's not the first.

I don't know, was it Dust Till Dawn before this?

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Because they don't play as good vampires. But the was Interview with a Vampire. And Interview with a Vampire, these guys are unmitigatedly evil. Killing innocent children, evil. Enjoying killing random people for fun, evil.

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Speaker 6: Leave a corpse here to rot

Be glad I made you what

Speaker 7: you are. You're dead now, like that damned corpse. Now get rid of

there is no genuine [00:08:00] redemption of them as any sort of a good thing outside of they care for other vampires, sometimes, and whiz conditions.

That is the, the totality of it. of their plot development as characters, okay? And I would note, this is not me shitting on the movie. I actually love Interview with a Vampire. I think it's fantastic. And I think It's long. It's long. But everyone in it's really good. Young Kiersten Dunst is amazing in it.

It's it's like a braveheart good like I consider it like a true classic level good And I would note that in this period you had