# love scenes in movies (or real life)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 19, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109 "2020-04-19T04:47:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/21 "2020-04-21T22:54:53Z")
> [@Folacin](#):
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> I don’t sleep well nude, so at some point I’ll pull some shorts on once the fun is over.
That’s a genuinely surprising concept. I can’t actually remember what I came here to say. Sleep can be - and is - performed in any state of (un)dress, in my experience.
There are stranger things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy…
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### Author:  [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/22 "2020-04-22T02:55:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Isn’t the man usually only covered up to his waist?
Yeah, it’s the famous Hollywood L-shaped sheet. Only comes up to the man’s waist, but covers the woman to her collarbone.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/23 "2020-04-22T07:04:49Z")
Stuff that looks great in movies (incl. porn) does not always fly in real life. Threesomes are, IMO, only for people who can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/24 "2020-04-22T07:45:02Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> I’m particularly perplexed by guys getting out of bed with their boxer shorts on. Did they never take them off, or did they put them back on sometime during the night?
I put my underwear back on, yes. Or a fresh pair, actually.
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/25 "2020-04-22T16:59:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> I’m particularly perplexed by guys getting out of bed with their boxer shorts on. Did they never take them off, or did they put them back on sometime during the night?
I put them back on, personally. I don’t feel comfortable sleeping naked.
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/26 "2020-04-25T18:57:51Z")
I generally like to use the bathroom once the fun and games are over, so put on my shorts and preferably a t-shirt unless there’s an objection. I don’t like sleeping naked.
But back to the original question, I do think that media and entertainment feed back into society. I’ve had a lot of experiences that I’m pretty sure were due to someone having seen it in a movie or show.
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### Author:  [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/27 "2020-04-25T19:16:34Z")
Why do war movies have long stretches of intense action? Shouldn’t they have long stretches of cleaning your weapons?
And spy movies, why bother getting in gunfights and seducing gorgeous counter-agents when they can show scenes of exciting translations of paper documents?
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/28 "2020-04-25T19:32:30Z")
I agree with the OP. Not only is real life not like that, I sure wouldn’t want it to be. And it makes for a lot of unsexy unromantic movies. Getting there slowly, building sexual tension, getting the steam going, is a not hotter than that snatchy grabby stuff.
Well at least they finally stopped doing those awful cinema kisses, where they open their mouths then smash them against each other like they’re trying to tear each other’s lips off with their teeth.
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### Author:  [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/29 "2020-04-25T21:40:33Z")
How many cinematic scenes show the household pets watching? And unpleasantly participating? Kitteh jumping on the guy’s clenched buttocks, yow. Cold dog nose probing bare feet? No, it’s not like real life.
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### Author:  [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/30 "2020-04-27T07:10:49Z")
> [@mcgato](#):
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> Man rips open the woman’s blouse with buttons going everywhere. I think that would get most men punched in the face.
Eons ago a young lady told me during a chat session that she thought it would be thrilling to have her blouse ripped open and her bra pulled or cut open in front before being passionately ravaged by a strong man.
Later, she arranged to meet me during her Spring Break and we both knew by then that it wasn’t going to be a celibate week. So I remembered her comment and figured I’d thrill her during our first tryst. Just as a back-up measure, I brought along a filipino knife (bali sung) and I must say I’m glad that was before TSA scans at the airports; I even went to meet her at the gate with that thing in my back pocket!
One we got to her hotel room the blouse ripped open easily enough, though I was a bit surprised how strongly the buttons were sewn on. She hadn’t been expecting me to remember those comments, though, so she hadn’t worn a front-clasping bra. In fact, she was clad in a heavy-duty garment that used an underwire that was probably a quarter-inch\* thick! If I had brought a katana, I could probably have gotten through it – though I wasn’t accurate enough to leave her alive afterward – but I certainly couldn’t get through that underwire with just my butterfly knife, much less my bare hands. :eek:
Instead we had to settle for me cutting through her shoulder straps and back strap. And that wasn’t wild dramatic slashing but carefully sawing back and forth through the fabric to make sure I didn’t accidentally slice her while I was at it. It was a rather unexciting finish to a dramatic and thrilling beginning. :smack:
–G!
\*Yes, of course I’m exaggerating. I do remember thinking, “Had I known, I would have brought an electrician’s diagonal cutters!”
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### Author:  [@robert77wade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert77wade)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/31 "2020-04-27T12:51:27Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> In movies, oral sex is often performed _under the covers_. That just seems… impractical.
:D:D:D True that!
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/32 "2020-04-27T17:25:48Z")
[quote=“Wheelz, post:15, topic:852109”]
In movies, oral sex is often performed _under the covers_. That just seems… impractical.
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Through\* the covers would be right out.
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### Author:  [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/33 "2020-04-27T19:17:38Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> It always takes quite a bit of time for me to remove my complex system of trusses.
What is that from? It is killing me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/34 "2020-04-27T19:28:17Z")
This thread reminds of the great Buffy The Vampire Slayer scene where Buffy and Spike do it for the first time and manage to destroy an entire house without really noticing. Maybe it was a bit of a send up.
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### Author:  [@Happytree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happytree)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/35 "2020-04-28T13:36:45Z")
After the passionate couple gets half of their clothes of, the “love making” is usually over after 6 or 7 good pumps. And the woman is VERY satisfied.
IRL, not only would the lady be really mad at me, but i would also be blackballed by her entire circle of friends.
Maybe i’ve just been doing it wrong.
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### Author:  [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/36 "2020-04-28T14:27:44Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#):
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> We’ve seen it many times. They start kissing, and then start to rip each other’s clothes off as fast as they can, and end up totally naked in about 30 seconds, including the man’s socks.
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> Never happened to me. A couple of times, I started kissing a woman and it got passionate very quickly, and we were fucking in about a minute, but I never got my pants off. They were just halfway down, as was her dress. I did not take the time to take my socks off.
No one else has mentioned it so I guess I’m the only one whose main reaction was to “I never got my pants off. They were just halfway down”? That seems like it would be very … limiting.
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### Author:  [@Bibliothecarius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliothecarius)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/37 "2020-05-02T09:55:38Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> Now explain why married couples in the 60’s slept in twin beds wearing neck to toe pyjamas…
Film & TV censorship codes. Couldn’t have married characters shown in the same bed or it might imply they participate in highly indecent activities like intercourse! :eek:
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/38 "2020-05-02T11:26:24Z")
> [@Happytree](#):
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> i would also be blackballed by her entire circle of friends…
I don’t think black is the color they would have given you. 🙂
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/39 "2020-05-02T18:16:53Z")
Originally Posted by Happytree View Post
i would also be blackballed by her entire circle of friends…
> [@mbh](#):
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> I don’t think black is the color they would have given you. 🙂
From an early SNL “Sex Test”
Q: When a man has a premature ejaculation, the woman’s response should be:
a) “Can I get you anything else?”
b) “You selfish porkface! Now I’ll never be satisfied!”
c) “Wait 'til the girls hear about _this_!”
If I remember correctly the correct answer was (b)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-scenes-in-movies-or-real-life/852109/40 "2020-05-02T19:15:16Z")
> [@mcgato](#):
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> Man rips open the woman’s blouse with buttons going everywhere. I think that would get most men punched in the face.
One of my (many) favorite things about the Depression-era con-man comedy _Paper Moon_ is when Miss Trixie Delight is entertaining an over-eager man in her hotel room. As he undresses her we hear her say, with increasing annoyance, "Careful… careful… _you’re ripping it!"_
> [@panache45](#):
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> And when they’re sitting up in bed afterward, why are they both covered up to their armpits with sheets?
TV Tropes has you, uh, covered: [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ModestyBedsheet](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ModestyBedsheet)
> [@installLSC](#):
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> Why do war movies have long stretches of intense action? Shouldn’t they have long stretches of cleaning your weapons?
> And spy movies, why bother getting in gunfights and seducing gorgeous counter-agents when they can show scenes of exciting translations of paper documents?
Or all the paperwork cops would have to fill out after a big gun battle! _Hot Fuzz_ is the only movie to show it, I think.
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