# POLL: Best sex scene in a "mainstream" movie \*NOT\* porn **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562 "2002-12-09T18:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/21 "2002-12-09T22:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > \*\*_Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!_ > > No contest. \*\* Good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/22 "2002-12-09T23:26:34Z")
A tie between _Thelma & Louise_ and _The Piano._ ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/23 "2002-12-09T23:28:37Z")
I vote for the one in “Cruel Intentions” with Sarah Michelle-Gellar (mmm…SMG…) kissing that other woman. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/24 "2002-12-09T23:28:38Z")
Oops, I forgot just about every sex scene in _The Unbearable Lightness of Being,_ but I’m probably biased since I have the major hots for Daniel Day-Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/25 "2002-12-10T00:04:15Z")
I’d also say Cruel Intentions… but not SMG. Ryan Phillipe and Reese Witherspoon had an absolutely phenomenal sex scene. _rawr_ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/26 "2002-12-10T00:07:10Z")
My favorite has always been the one with Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson in _The Tall Guy_ because it’s **fun** and **funny.** None of this saxophones-n-slo-mo self-seriousness at all, nope. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/27 "2002-12-10T00:18:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > **A bit of a contest-- with another Almodovar film-- _High Heels_. The protagonist has a frantic, over-the-edge shag while helping her friend change out of his drag outfit, suspended from one of those rolling wardrobes. (He performs in a club doing an impersonation of her estranged _mother_, an ex-patriot actress.) :eek:** Yeah, that’s a good one. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/28 "2002-12-10T00:19:20Z")
Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in “Bound”. Rowr. What can I say…Gina Gershon does it for me every time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/29 "2002-12-10T00:42:49Z")
'Nother vote for _Enemy at the Gates_. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/30 "2002-12-10T00:51:11Z")
It’s not a sex scene, but I melted when Eddie Izzard and Kirsten Dunst played charades in _The Cat’s Meow_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/31 "2002-12-10T02:08:14Z")
**Cervais** beat me to it. **The Tall Guy** is a clear leader, a perfect mix of unbridled passion and fruit salad. No sex, per se, but the “Fly Me” number in **All That Jazz** is an erotic high point. ---
**Author:** ![StPaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@StPaul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StPaul)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/32 "2002-12-10T04:10:52Z")
Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet really go at it in **Angel Heart**. It helps if you like blood-soaked rooms and flashes of orgies in Hell. But hay, who doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/33 "2002-12-10T04:40:40Z")
This may be stretching the definition of ‘mainstream’, but Joan Chen with Anne Heche in _The Wild Side_ was pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/34 "2002-12-10T05:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShetlandPony \* > \*\*Don’t Look Now > > Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie > > No competition \*\* Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/35 "2002-12-10T05:06:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarrenS \* > \*\*I vote for the one in “Cruel Intentions” with Sarah Michelle-Gellar (mmm…SMG…) kissing that other woman. \*\* That’d be Selma Blair. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/36 "2002-12-10T07:10:19Z")
Possibly stretching mainstream, possibly stretching sex-scene, but the whole “seduction scene” from The Hunger with with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/37 "2002-12-10T07:37:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\*Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in “Bound”. Rowr. > > What can I say…Gina Gershon does it for me every time. 🙂 \*\* Second that choice. For guy/girl my choice is any scene in **Body Heat** , even the ones that Kathleen Turner kept her clothes on. That movie oozed sex, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/38 "2002-12-10T09:01:34Z")
a bit out of left field, but **The Name of the Rose** ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/39 "2002-12-10T09:07:16Z")
One that immediately comes to mind for me is Alyssa Milano and this photographer chick in Embrace of the Vampire. Dunno how mainstream it is and it doesn’t go very far but it makes me hot just thinking on it. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/40 "2002-12-10T09:10:36Z")
Fire on the Amazon w/ Sandra Bullock, before Speed. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. If they weren’t actually having sex then it’s the best damned acting I’ve ever seen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=3)