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Netflix has started to corner the market on movies with graphic sex scenes, with 365 Dni and now Love in the charts of the most-watch movies on the streamer. The latter, however, takes things much further than the former, with the French film from director Gaspar Noe featuring genuine unsimulated sex scenes right from the opening of the movie, which is a minutes-long masturbation scene ending in ejaculation.
According to star Karl Glusman, speaking to Variety , this masturbation scene was one of the first he shot on the film. The actor said: "The first day of shooting, he said, 'It's time for your big close up!' He lowered the camera to my waist level and got the focus right. And he said, 'All right, take your pants off!' The scene [with the ejaculation] was on the first day of shooting. That was my ice breaker."
If that was not intimidating enough, the two actors involved in the scene barely knew each other. According to an interview between Noe and The Hollywood Reporter : "We shot all the nude scenes the first week with a very small crew. We didn't even rehearse before — the actors had never even kissed each other before we started. I didn't want to shoot the nude scenes over and over again, so for all the nude scenes, we had two camera positions for each scene so we had editing options. But there is nothing that we shot that didn't seem natural when we were doing it. I didn't give them directions."
Asked how he prepared for this, Glusman said: "I went to the bathroom to garner some courage. I looked in the mirror. It felt like the scene in Boogie Nights , where he's pumping himself up. I was like, 'What are you doing?! This is not you. You can't do this. You should run away.' I definitely had a moment when my heart sped up, and I thought, 'This is a huge f***ing mistake.'"
Though the masturbation scene is real (though Noe has admitted he added some fake extra ejaculate), the director has never reveled exactly which sex scenes are real and which were faked. He told Slant: "Some things are real and some things are simulated in the movie, but it's not an issue as long as it looks real on screen. By starting with a scene where things really happen, you believe all the rest is real...It's like a magician bringing a rabbit out of a hat: If the rabbit looks alive, that's important, not how it comes out."
Asked whether he used a body double, meanwhile, Glusman said, "a magician never reveals his secrets."
We do know, however, that the scenes featuring Klara Kristin as Omi were faked. Noe said to THR , "Klara initially didn't want to do [the movie], but that was because she wasn't an actress and was unsure," while the actress herself told Dazed that she "couldn't go that far" and actually have real sex on screen.
Though actors Glusman and Aomi Muyock did film real sex scenes for the movie, Noe revealed to Indiewire that he was unable to film a scene he wanted to because the latter did not want to do it. He said, "they had issues about things that I cannot understand. For example, at the point the couple buys a dildo, I thought they would [use it], but the actress said, 'no way'... For her, that was a vision of degradation or humiliation. She said, 'No way I'm going to put a vibrator — or whatever — inside my p****.'"
As well as encouraging his actors to appear nude on the movie, Noe's penis also has a cameo in the film as the genitals of one of Murphy's (played by Glusman) exes. The Enter the Void and Climax director said of this to S lant: " I thought showing that he had images of the enemy's d*** would make sense, and it was easier to do it than get a body double. Also it was a way to show to Karl that it was no problem. He would show his d***, so I would show mine too."
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According to Esquire , one of the very first movies to be screened for the public was 1896's The Kiss , which featured a full-on kiss and shocked the prim and proper 19th-century mindset. Moviegoers have come a long way since then, especially with the movies on this list, which range from full-on explicit to laugh-out-loud disbelief. With names Amy Schumer involved alongside Tom Cruise, it's no surprise that there really is something for everyone.

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A sex scene in a movie has to accomplish a lot. Far from just depicting two characters (or more) doing it, a love scene should progress the story in some way, or tell the audience something new that they didn't know about a character before. Ideally, a good sex scene should also be hot, without being exploitative of the actors, or perpetrating demeaning tropes and cliches about sex. It should also just be fun and entertaining in all the ways a sex scene should be.
For filmmakers, writing and directing sex scenes can be like walking a tightrope, with "too explicit" on one side, and "cringeworthy" on the other. Here are several moments from film which we feel thread that needle expertly, including a number of handpicked scenes from porn star and director Joanna Angel.
Atonement is a film about war, love, class differences, and regret, but mostly it's a film about two people who are incandescently horny for each other. The scene in which Robbie and Cecilia finally consummate their long-simmering attraction in the library during a fancy dinner party is one of shadows and muted gasps, which heighten the sense of intimacy as well as the scandalous nature of the act—which will be tragically misinterpreted by an onlooker.
Joanna Angel: It’s always about 10 to 20 degrees warmer in the Valley than it is in the rest of Los Angeles. In 2 Days in the Valley ( featuring a young Charlize Theron in her first lead role), James Spader uses the heat as an excuse to put ice cubes all over Theron’s nipples and thighs. The movie itself isn't great, but the scene features Charlize Theron in an all-white lace bodysuit, so there's that.
We'd be remiss not to include the E.L. James series which birthed so many steamy sex scenes, we could not possibly count them all. From moments in the Red Room to shower sex of all kinds, here's a look at some of the best.
Not only does this scene sell the hell out of Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen's sexual chemistry, it also subverts expectation by having Theron's character (a workaholic politician) by the one who is freaky in the bedroom. It's rare for rom-coms to be so bawdy, and even rarer still for the female character to be the one who gets to express their desires and expectations in the bedroom.
Joanna Angel: As a porn director, I know there are many, many logistical issues that come with shooting sex in a swimming pool. If there's too much sun, it can cause unflattering reflections; if there's not enough sun, that's a problem, too. (Who wants to see people getting it on in a pool on a cloudy day?). Plus, there's inevitably going to be at least one girl on set who's like, "I hope this isn't a problem, but I can't get my hair extensions wet." (You're shooting a sex scene in a swimming pool. Of course it's a problem.)
But in the 1998 classic Wild Things, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards have the perfect pool sex scene, all without freaking out about their extensions. After almost beating the crap out of each other, they make out under the perfect moonlight before seamlessly segueing into a steamy sex scene. It's Hollywood. Anything can happen.
Ennis and Jack's first sexual encounter in the tent is urgent and raw (in every sense), and is a pivotal moment in the story. It also sent out some pretty inaccurate information regarding the act of anal sex to viewers, many of whom had never seen it depicted on-screen before.
At this point in the movie, Quincy and Monica have known each other since they were kids, and their first love scene encapsulates that culmination of years of attraction, as well as the sheer awkwardness of crossing that line with your best friend. Set to a sultry rendition of 'This Woman's Work', the scene gives the two characters time and space to be naked in front of each other, both figuratively and literally, before they have sex.
Joanna Angel: The ideal English major jerk-off material, this sex scene featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes as Viola de Lesseps and William Shakespeare is truly something special. It’s "making love" in the truest sense of the word: it's just two people passionately melting into each other's bodies.
In Meet Joe Black , Brad Pitt's body is taken over by Death himself, and Pitt plays the character as one who is full of mystery and secret knowledge. Claire Forlani, meanwhile, is 100 percent human, and it is she who guides Pitt through what is essentially his first sexual experience in this scene which explores the innocent, loving side of Death.
Joanna Angel: When I was a teenager, I can’t tell you how many times I scribbled in my diary, threw it at the window…. and hoped for a handsome charming murderer to be waiting on the other side of it. Alas (or, I guess, thankfully?), this never happened. But I'll always have this adorable scene featuring disgruntled teen Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) and equally disgruntled yet also psychotic teen JD (Christian Slater) in the cult classic Heathers.
Sure, this scene doesn’t show any actual sex, but it does show a smidge of nudity, some incredibly intense first-base action, and Winona Ryder's panties hanging off Daddy’s croquet set—which, in some ways, makes it even hotter.
Not only does this montage feature two incredibly sexy actors—Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin—but it also serves as a highly efficient piece of storytelling. By checking in with Wade and Vanessa's sex life on every major holiday (including International Women's Day), the movie grants their relationship more weight than a lot of other superhero flicks, where the love interest often feels like an afterthought. It also gets to have the kind of R-rated fun that would feel out of place in The Avengers .
Is there anything sexier than a game of cat-and-mouse between two people who are undeniably hot for each other? In this remake of the classic heist movie, Rene Russo has been investigating Pierce Brosnan for weeks—but the chase becomes real when she shows up to a black and white ball (wearing RED) and neither of them is able to keep up the pretense any longer.
Joanna Angel: Directed by Adrian Lyne (the same guy who also made erotic thrillers 9 1/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction ), Unfaithful does a great job of capturing the sexual intensity you can only have with someone you're not supposed to be attracted to. This scene between bored housewife Diane Lane and sexy foreign stud Olivier Martinez features some highly emotional and very, very sexy infidelity, which culminates with Lane crying and having an orgasm at the same time.
Spoiler alert: Lane's husband (Richard Gere) later finds out about the affair and murders Martinez with a snow globe, but hey, that doesn’t change the fact that for one brief moment, this guy rocked Diane Lane's world.
The sex scene in Don't Look Now , adapted from the novella by Daphne Du Maurier, famously caused controversy when the film was first released. Shots of the married couple (played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie ) having sex were interspersed with footage of them getting dressed to go out to dinner, making the scene in some ways a macrocosmic portrait of a marriage
Joanna Angel: This 2009 Notorious B.I.G. biopic features a scene where Lil Kim (Naturi Naughton) rides Biggie (Jamal Woolard) like a big roly-poly dildo. (Did we mention she's wearing a schoolgirl outfit in this scene?) But the real money shot is when Lil Kim seduces Biggie by spitting some rhymes—while she’s still in her underwear.
While not technically a sex scene in that neither of the characters makes physical contact, this exchange from Bent is charged with desire. Max and Horst (Clive Owen and Lothaire Bluteau) are gay men in a concentration camp who are unable to touch or even look at each other—an obstacle they overcome in this scene by finding another way to be intimate.
Joanna Angel: My vote for the 90s film couple with the most chemistry goes to Rosie Perez and Woody Harrelson in White Men C
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