Many of your favorite movies, whether you know it or not, started on the NC-17 side of the rating road before making enough cuts to make them R-friendly. Going through every movie that has been dealt an NC-17 rating would be exhaustive, so today we’re just limiting to the sexy parts of this long list. [...]
‘The L Word’ (2004 - 2009)This Showtime series about a group of lesbian friends just trying to figure out life did a lot to transform women-on-women sex scenes from something that was scandalous to something emotional.‘Game of Thrones’ (2011 - present)For years, the series was practically synonymous with discussions of representations of sexual assault. All [...]
Here are 10 shows that helped make steamy scenes the TV norm rather than the exception.‘Bewitched’ (1964 - 1972)Bewitched’s groundbreaking development took place in the bedroom. The witch comedy was one of the first series that allowed its married couple to actually share a bed. Of course, the only thing Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York [...]
1. 'The Affair' Season 1, Episode 4: True To The Title, Ruth And Noah Have An AffairWe were tempted to use one of the many hot hookups between Noah (Dominic West) and Helen (Maura Tierney), but the series is titled The Affair not Marriage on the Rocks.In this festive sex scene, Noah and Ruth partake [...]
We’ve already detailed HBO‘s all-time most controversial sexy time moments and shared a collection of the hottest TV sex scenes of 2017, so in this week’s edition, we open the Showtime archives to bring you some of the cable network’s steamiest scenes. From a sultry dive bar tryst between Mary-Louise Parker and Mark-Paul Gosselaar on [...]
There’s an all-new Wet Hot American Summer adventure coming your way this Friday on Netflix, and it’s a sequel 16 years in the making! Considering the years and years of build-up to this sequel series, one would think that Netflix would have made it their beeswax to have the original 2001 Wet Hot American Summer [...]
The announcement that the highly talented Jodie Whittaker would be the 13th doctor should have been a joyous occasion for sci-fi fans everywhere. The fact that Doctor Who has cast its first female doctor is a source of excitement in and of itself, but having the role go to Whittaker, one of the strongest and [...]
While Game of Thrones is presently in its seventh season, it just took one scene to realize that they were never going to bashful far from even the most stunning of sexual experiences. Through the span of the dream epic, we've discovered that practically anything goes in Westeros; inbreeding, trios, bashes, parasitic, surrender sex, and [...]
Unfortunately, sexual violence is very much a part of our current film and television landscape. Every sexual assault scene comes with its own questions and controversies — is this scene necessary to the show or movie’s plot? Does this scene positively advance conversations about sexual violence? Or is rape just used as a plot device? [...]
CalifornicationSex and television — they’re two things that pair oddly well together like chilies in chocolate. Once upon a time, the very idea of any character having onscreen sex was enough to make people panic, but now it’s not uncommon to see unbelievably steamy scenes in mainstream dramas and comedies. And in the world of [...]