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Movie Maker -  A new study has found that there is a lot less movie sex today than there was at the turn of the millennium. The study, conducted by movie data analyst Stephen Follows, shows that the amount of sex and nudity in major live-action films has dropped by almost 40% since 2000. Follows has analyzed the 250 highest-grossing movies in America every year since 2000, according to The Economist,, and to reach these findings, he coded the sex and nudity levels of a film on a scale from “none” to “severe.” This is how much things have changed: In the year 2000, Follows found that only less than 20% of the highest-grossing movies contained absolutely no movie sex. Now, that number has increased to almost 50% of movies containing no sexual content. However, the movie sex scenes that are happening today have become more graphic in nature, The Economist adds, giving examples like the sex scenes in brothels depicted in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar winner Poor Things and the masturbation and oral sex scenes in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn as examples.