# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/41 "2002-12-10T09:16:27Z")
The **Tall Guy** gets another vote from me, as does **Don’t look Now**. There are also some stills from unused footage in **Monster’s Ball** floating around the Web… they look kinda “realistic” IYKWIM… ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/42 "2002-12-10T09:23:22Z")
Y Tu Mama Tambien. All three sex scenes are ridiculously good. And I may be alone here, but I thought the sex scene in 8 Mile was very well-done too… A bit trashy, not very um… romantic, but still kind of hot. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/43 "2002-12-10T10:41:33Z")
Bill Murray giving P.J. Soles the “Aunt Jemima Treatment” in **Stripes** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/44 "2002-12-10T10:53:41Z")
Nother vote for The Piano… mmmm ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/45 "2002-12-10T13:48:41Z")
I’m with **B.Pants** on this one. [Wild Things](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120890) That three way with Matt Dillon and those two women did me in. Rawr. I’ve liked him since ‘Little Darlings’ and ‘The Outsiders.’ I’d say that scene also does odd things to my husband, but I cannot go into any further details. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/46 "2002-12-10T14:08:33Z")
I’ll second the scene in “The Big Easy.” Also, the “Take My Breath Away” scenes in Top Gun. It’s probably the music but it’s the sexiest song ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/47 "2002-12-10T14:25:11Z")
The Sailor that Fell from Grace with the Sea. Oh my god. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/48 "2002-12-10T14:26:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ooner \* > Y Tu Mama Tambien. All three sex scenes are ridiculously good. They also came into my mind. Add: - Opening scene of Betty Blue - Tall Guy (actually lived out this scene close enough. What a shag. It was soooo much fun. Ah memories 🙂 ) > [@](#): > > a bit out of left field, but The Name of the Rose God that girl was beautiful and the scene had a raw sexiness about it. There was also a very well treated and very umm uplifting deflowering of Liv Tyler _OMG Liv_ in \*Stealing Beauty \* ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/49 "2002-12-10T14:50:08Z")
William Hurt breaking the door down to get at Kathleen Turner in Body Heat does it for me. I would have broken the door down as well, and crawled across the broken glass on my hands and knees. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/50 "2002-12-10T15:10:00Z")
Just has to be American Pie. “The love of one man for his mothers apple pie” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dylan\_73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dylan\_73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dylan_73)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/51 "2002-12-10T16:21:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woolly \* > \*\*a bit out of left field, but **The Name of the Rose** \*\* Hmm…I’ll second that one. ---
**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, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/52 "2002-12-10T17:04:00Z")
It wasn’t a big release, I’ve only seen it on tape, but in Illuminata (1998), there’s a great scene with Susan Sarandon and John Turturro. She seduces him nudely, then gives him a HJ under a table. ---
**Author:** ![Kyann22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kyann22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyann22)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/53 "2002-12-10T18:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\* > > Also, the “Take My Breath Away” scenes in Top Gun. It’s probably the music but it’s the sexiest song ever recorded. \*\* I must agree with this one! That song…man oh man that song… Makes my toes curl! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/54 "2002-12-10T21:57:37Z")
Tall Guy Check Bound check But I’ll add Point of No Return Bridget Fonda + ravioli = oh my god yes! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/55 "2002-12-10T22:17:11Z")
Hot Shots! (Part Deux? i can’t remember which) Charlie Sheen is making love to a woman and progresses from some cliche like rubbing ice over her skin to actually frying bacon and eggs on her stomach! hilarious ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/56 "2002-12-10T22:56:17Z")
Name of the Rose and Enemy at the Gates ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/57 "2002-12-11T00:01:52Z")
Laura San Giacomo and James Spader in **Sex, Lies and Videotape** I think the whole movie is pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/58 "2002-12-11T00:13:50Z")
David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” both scenes, especially the first one, between two women converted me–previously I had been one of the only men on earth who didn’t fantasize about lesbian sex; now–Oh my God! Also, I’ll agree with the nomination of “Unbearable Lightness of Being”–a totally sexy movie all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/59 "2002-12-11T00:25:43Z")
I guess “Ai No Corrida” is a little un-mainstream…so I’ll pick… Diane Lane, in “A Walk On The Moon”. I guess some actor was under the waterfall with her, but frankly I didn’t notice. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/60 "2002-12-11T00:31:14Z")
That was Viggo “Aragorn” Mortenson, **cuate**. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=4)