Sure, sex scenes are often for titillation or simply to keep audiences interested during exposition, but these instances prove that, at their best, filmic love scenes are a vital narrative device we'll miss post-pandemic. Did you ever notice how sensitive you were to touch, until you could no longer? We instinctively shrink back if someone comes too close and express our dismay on social media at the encroachment of personal space or lack of care for the rules. Drama and comedy rely on human interaction, so halted productions are now turning their thoughts to how they will incorporate social distancing into storylines — soaps, especially, as a shortage of content is imminent. Thanks to camera trickery and canny editing, keeping actors and crew safe may require little onscreen compromise, but it means a moratorium on more intimate scenes.

Welcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV. Sex scenes have a rich, varied tradition in the cinema. In the s, they were commodified in startling ways. These days, they tend to be relatively rare. Some of the scenes on this list are seminal moments in film history for better and for worse.

Maybe you heard about it on Twitter or saw people posting about it on TikTok, but for whatever reason, you're now frantically logging into your ex's Netflix account to see what the hype's all about. Considering porn can be, well, icky sometimes, movies and T. Tune into these 35 movies with sex scenes so raw, they should not be watched with or beside parental units. Consider that your warning now.

Still, getting steamy with Elba has its perks: "All my friends are so jealous of me," she joked. Game of Thrones has no shortage of nudity and sex scenes, but only one of them caused Emilia Clarke to actually thank the show's creators, David Benioff and D. I actually went up to [them] and thanked them. I was like, 'That's a scene I've been waiting for!