Not Rated 93 min Drama, Romance. The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him. Votes: 2, R min Drama, Romance.

Here's the thing. People have sex. Movies have sex scenes. Wouldn't it be intriguing if a movie featured two actors having actual, consensual sex, instead of just mimicking sex in a way that looks great onscreen but is almost certainly very, very awkward in real life? Yes, obviously, we're aware that porn exists, but we are not talking about porn here. No, we're talking about actual, mainstream or, at very least, as the level of "mainstream" achieved by arthouse foreign films and indies movies with actual plots that also happen to feature actual humans engaging in actual sex acts. Don't roll your eyes—these movies exist.

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.

Sex scenes in movies and television can be tricky. You need to make sure the actors are comfortable with doing a sex scene. In addition, there has to be chemistry between the actors. Some of the worst sex scenes in movies have all the intimacy of a dead fish between the actors.