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* The Shumacher Batman movies: The fans threw fits about the Bat-nipple suits, but "nobody" complains about the catsuit. Well, it doesn't have nipples.

* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Some people are creeped out because [[Older Than They Look|Edward's 100]], some people don't like the [[Crazy Jealous Guy|abusive undertones]], some people don't like that S. Meyer claims to be a feminist when Bella does nothing proactive, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|some people put pictures of Edward on the ceiling above their bed]].

* As noted on the [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)]] page, a popular [[Double Standard]] is the idea that the rape of a woman by another woman is not "real" rape, and so it becomes [[Selective Squick]]. Women don't have penises to rape with so it "doesn't count", so regardless of how one might feel about rape scenes in general, female-on-female rape is the exception.

* For many people, horrific violence at a young age is just fine, but sex is not. For instance, in the setting of Naruto, 12 year olds have to deal with potentially life threatening missions, and can participate in an exam that involves a survival test where people are expected to die (by participants killing each other), followed by a tournament where more people may die. And on passing said exam they'll have to take responsibility for their teammates' lives. Lots of fanfic writers don't seem to find any issue with writing about that, but balk at the idea of the characters having consensual sex (sometimes explicitly made clear in the author's comments) and resort to reaching the timeskip as quickly as possible, or just inexplicably bumping the characters in age.

* This also happens in [[Real Life]]: It is remarkable how many men can be [[Squick|squicked out of]] [[Brain Bleach|their minds]] by merely mentioning that something resembles a penis (state of arousal not important) or mentioning the word "menstruation" with no gory details given at all. What makes it even more amusing is that they often get much more annoyed than a woman would ever get from similar remarks made by a guy about women.

* [[Foreign Queasine]] in general - Some foods that are commonplace or only slightly unusual in one culture can be repulsive members of another. For example, ''[[Iron Chef]]'' fans on both sides of the Pacific can name examples from the various versions of the show.

* [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]] has this evident on ''the author's'' part. The author finds many heterosexual and lesbiam sex acts hot, such as those involving drinking breast milk, urinating, defecating, farting, genital mutilation and even rape, while he's disgusted by two men merely kissing.

 

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