It turns out that the reason they were pretending to not care about arses is because they were desperately trying to keep a lid on how like... gross... it was all gonna get.
We went straight from "only primitives notice that women are in 3D" to paddling to rampant anal sex to scat porn, in 30 years, and I've just been watching this unfold and wishing we could go back to the days of playfully smacking the wifey on the behind to annoy them when they're cooking dinner.