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Don’t Look Now (1973) has a scene (well edited with more mundane activities) between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie that has been purported to be authentic. Sutherland has denied it, but observers on the set disagree with him.
Here’s a Wikipedia link on it.
Yes, there are of course exceptions. But don’t be naive–before CGI there was claymation.
(Common, you all just heard I don’t know, Davey… in your sick, sick, wonderful minds.)
I meant to betray my intelligence!
“Claymation”? “Beyond the Green Door”??? I think not.
No, Evil Captor has it right. That’s why vintage porn is so rare: The computers in the 30s and 40s were so slow that it took a really long time to make.
I’ve heard this multiple times, attributed to different actors. I think it’s an urban legend.
I did once read an interview with Ewan McGregor where he confessed to getting an erection while shooting a sex scene for the miniseries Scarlet and Black. I can’t find the original interview online right now, but it’s mentioned in this Daily Mail piece. He said it was very embarrassing and that they had to stop shooting for a few minutes to let him get things under control.
Don’t forget that Cynthia Plaster Caster of Chicago was in action then.
Maybe not in the original, but by the time they got to the umpteenth sequel (I think One Door, Two Door, Red Door, Green Door was the only one true to form) they were using all sorts of non-computerized special effects. Claymation, stop-motion, animation, you name it, it was in there. I’m pretty sure most of the moans and groans are modified, slowed down Wilhelm Screams.
Another one famous for “it really happened” was Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. The story was reenforced by a somewhat more explicit pictorial in Playboy:
One odd counter-example was Steven Soderbergh’s film The Girlfriend Experience. Sasha Grey, was specifically forbidden in her contract to have actual sex, even though she usually makes very explicit porn.
I was going to mention “Sweetback.” Melvin Van Peebles contracted gonorrhea and successfully got worker’s comp for it.
Viagra works when you want to get wood but can’t. If you’re not in a mood to get your freak on, no amount of little blue pills will make your soldier stand at attention.
You’d think that not having an erection around a hot girl would be embarrassing!
I would think that getting an erection while wearing a skin-tight, flesh-colored Speedo could be painful as well.
How about having an obvious erection around a hot girl who happens to be a respectable fellow member of your profession, during your workday, while you’re working closely with her?
I’m sure modern medicine has helped, but the underlying problem is still there: getting an erection on cue, in front of a camera crew isn’t as easy as one would think even if provided with a lot of stimulation.
I think the fact the actress you’re working with doesn’t know you, doesn’t want you and would slap the everliving piss out of you if you tried anything funny would also be a factor.
I know “actress” is Victorian slang for whore, but a) every other English word is Victorian slang for whore (or vagina) and b) the times, they have a-changed.
According to the DVD commentary for The Blue Lagoon all Brooke Shields, who was 14 :eek: at the time, had on during the sex scenes was a washcloth covering her vagina; with a fully nude, 18 yr old Christopher Atkins on the other side humping. Shields did use body doubles (including the dolphin trainer) for alot of her scenes, but the sex scene wasn’t one of them. For most of the scenes she did do she had her hair glued to her nipples. Atkins on the other hand was completely naked (not even a sock) every time his character was naked; and apparently spent most of his free time off camera naked as well. He credits the film with turning him into a nudist.
Most (but not all) non-porn films that show explict, unsimulated sex, only show a little of it, and when they do, usually the sex scenes are typical sex scenes that are more explicit than usual.
Shortbus is a bit different in that the film itself is about sexuality, it shows a lot of explicit, unsimulated sex in the sex scenes, and the sex scenes are often anything but typical. The production of it was non-typical as well, in that the cast worked together on it in a collaborative fashion for over two years.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a higher ratio of sex scenes to non-sex scenes than in some 1970s porn films, and the many sex scenes really are as explicit as what you get in porn movies, but despite this, it simply isn’t a porn film. It’s the sort of film that you would expect to see at a film festival.
And yes, the DVD was available at my local Rogers video store (a mainstream video chain for the general public), not tucked away in a back room. For those of you who are wondering just how unsimulated the sex was, just go to xhamster, or xvideos, or spankwire, and search on the term shortbus. For those of you who are simply looking for a really good movie that delves into sexuality in a very sex positive way, just rent the thing and enjoy a very good movie, that will leave you thinking and leave you smiling.
(That being said, I will never look at abstract expressionist paintings like Jackson Pollock “Autumn Rhythm” again with a straight face.)
Netflix also has Shortbus.