# How do actors do naked sex scenes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854 "2008-03-18T22:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/61 "2008-03-21T23:31:40Z")
Shields had a body double in both **Blue Lagoon** and **Endless Love**. Also, the story has it that Zefferelli (sp?) squeezed Shields’ big toe to get her to make a convincing O-face. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/62 "2008-03-21T23:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Do SAG rules even cover non-speaking extras? [/QUOTE] And is queefing a form of speaking? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/63 "2008-03-21T23:59:32Z")
I found this to be hilarious- > [@](#): > > Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) - Director/actor Melvin Van Peebles appears in several unsimulated sex scenes. Van Peebles contracted a sexually transmitted disease while filming and successfully filed for worker’s compensation. Damn, Melvin really was a bad ass! 🆒 I thought that the sex scene between Gary Oldman and Karen Young in _Criminal Law_ was pretty hard core. I was surprised they weren’t actual fucking. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/64 "2008-03-22T00:49:27Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] Brook Shields and the guy who played her brother [/QUOTE] Christopher Atkins. And the characters were not related. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/65 "2008-03-22T00:57:19Z")
I thought they were cousins. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/66 "2008-03-22T01:11:02Z")
[QUOTE=thetruewheel] Yeah, but I think sex with minors is still on the books somewhere. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the news flash, but what does that have to do with an adult actress giving her adult boyfriend a blow job? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/67 "2008-03-22T02:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] I found this to be hilarious- > [@](#): > > Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) - Director/actor Melvin Van Peebles appears in several unsimulated sex scenes. Van Peebles contracted a sexually transmitted disease while filming and successfully filed for worker’s compensation. Damn, Melvin really was a bad ass! 🆒 [/QUOTE] I’ll believe that when The Smoking Gun puts the worker’s comp form online. :dubious: (Yes, I see that the footnote goes to Van Peebles’ book. So?) ---
**Author:** ![Byzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Byzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/68 "2008-03-22T02:18:47Z")
Love scene being shot: [http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2083/100dc9.jpg](http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2083/100dc9.jpg) [http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4023/101td4.jpg](http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4023/101td4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/69 "2008-03-22T02:48:23Z")
Hee hee hee… great illustration, **Byzz**. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/70 "2008-03-22T12:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Hee hee hee… great illustration, **Byzz**. [/QUOTE] That guy really should not be using Verison for his cell phone carrier, eh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![solkoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@solkoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solkoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/71 "2008-03-23T00:36:29Z")
[QUOTE=Byzz] Love scene being shot: [http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2083/100dc9.jpg](http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2083/100dc9.jpg) [http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4023/101td4.jpg](http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4023/101td4.jpg) [/QUOTE] That’s awesome! It sums up the whole thread! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/72 "2008-04-03T10:11:11Z")
Someone said that HBO’s Rome has actual (unsimulated) sex scenes. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/73 "2008-04-03T10:52:51Z")
[QUOTE=AK84] Someone said that HBO’s Rome has actual (unsimulated) sex scenes. [/QUOTE] I don’t know but what a show! what a peep show! Visceral, animalistic, and totally realistic. Atia and Tranquilis, Atia and Antony Octavian (GJC) and his wife Gaia and Vorenus Cleopatra and Antony Octavia and Agrippa the orgy scenes… hawt 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/74 "2008-04-03T12:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] So while I can’t answer the on-set details, I’ll just note that filming a **rape** scene appears to be a very **stressful** thing. The guy of the scene was having to come out and smoke down a cigarette about every five minutes between takes and he **really** didn’t look happy. I assume that the female of the scene was doing something similar, justing going to her dressing room instead of coming outside in her undies. [/QUOTE] I once shot a scene in which my character tried to rape someone. I felt absolutely horrible afterward, and just wanted to go off alone somewhere to regain my composure. I can’t speak for how a woman feels after such a scene, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse in my entire life. I don’t even want to begin to imagine how one feels after shooting a more involved rape scene. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/75 "2008-04-03T19:11:15Z")
Well, I must be pure evil, on amature stage, I once appeared as a chracter who had a pretty rough rape scene (for amature stage) and I did’nt fell any remorse, rather we joked about it, the lady and I. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/76 "2008-04-03T19:50:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Terrible head, too. I almost felt sorry for the guy, which is tough considering he’s good at _everything_ and he gets paid to make movies about how great he is. [/QUOTE] Jeez, you are a picky bastard. I’m of the school of thought that any head by Chloë Sevigny would be good. But, I don’t get out much. [QUOTE=Baldwin] There’s an extremely realistic-looking sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 movie [Don’t Look Now](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/). The story is that the two actors and the director spent an afternoon locked in a room, with no other crew, and the actors went the extra mile to provide believable intimacy between a loving married couple. Having studied the scene, I know that Donald was willing to get his face between Ms. Christie’s legs. He’s a trouper. [/QUOTE] I just rented that and I have to say, it was a pretty realistic looking scene. Christ, Julie Christie is hot. It was pretty daring for 1973, I should think. Of course, _Last Tango in Paris_ was in 1972, so I guess that it was calm in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854/77 "2008-04-03T23:38:04Z")
> [@Darryl Lict](#): > > Jeez, you are a picky bastard. I’m of the school of thought that any head by Chloë Sevigny would be good. TMI: Bad head never gets me off. I don’t want to be counting cobwebs while I’m getting sucked off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-actors-do-naked-sex-scenes/441854.md?page=3)