Parenting & Family Quote by Sharon Tate

Sharon Tate’s line lands like a polite dinner-party question that quietly detonates the room. She doesn’t moralize; she compares. That’s the trick. By calling televised murder “very unnatural” and sex “very natural,” she flips the script of mid-century American respectability, where bodies were scandal and violence was entertainment. The closing tag - “Now, really, that doesn’t make any sense, does it?” - is performatively gentle, almost girlish, but it’s also a rhetorical trap: if you agree, you indict the culture; if you disagree, you have to defend the indefensible.

The intent is less about permissiveness than about hypocrisy. Tate is pointing at a censorship regime that pretends to protect innocence while feeding it sanitized brutality. Broadcast standards in the 1960s often treated sexual depiction as corrupting, even as crime shows and war coverage made violence familiar. Her language stages that contradiction in plain terms, no theory required.

The subtext carries extra charge because of who is speaking: a young actress whose own image would have been policed, sexualized, and curated by the industry. She’s not asking for prurience; she’s asking why intimacy is treated as more dangerous than death. Read with hindsight - knowing Tate’s life would be cut short by real, spectacular violence - the quote curdles. It becomes an eerie critique of a culture that rehearses murder nightly, then acts shocked when violence steps out of the screen.