# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/61 "2002-12-11T01:24:38Z")
Made the mistake of watching “Wild Orchid” in a co-ed group where no one was dating each other… Good thing we were all sober, because I think our inhibitions were the only thing keeping an orgy from breaking out. Everyone in the room was sweating when that movie was over. ---
**Author:** ![foxfiregrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@foxfiregrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxfiregrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/62 "2002-12-11T02:24:33Z")
Oh man, if you want happy lesbian sex that isn’t exploitive, \Better than Chocolate\ has some very lovely scenes. Just make sure you get the director’s cut. I expressed doubt when my girlfriend deemed it hotter than \ Bound\ but it is definitely has two contendors for hottest, sweetest, most playful sex scenes ever. Horray! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/63 "2002-12-11T02:28:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*It wasn’t a big release, I’ve only seen it on tape, but […] she seduces him nudely, then gives him a HJ under a table. \*\* Nice choice of words, there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/64 "2002-12-11T16:09:38Z")
How the heck has this not gotten moved to Cafe Society yet? ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/65 "2002-12-18T00:02:01Z")
I second “Meet Joe Black”. That was excellent. Beautiful, you might say. It was obvious they were having sex but it was something else, too. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/66 "2002-12-18T00:10:26Z")
Maybe because its a polling thread? ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/67 "2002-12-18T00:22:41Z")
This probably says a lot more about me than it does the film, but **Goldeneye**. Ms. Onatop can sink her claws into me any time. Even if it would probably be the last time. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/68 "2002-12-18T01:13:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > **My vote (the first that jumps to mind): Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. IMHO Sharon Stone was hotter than liquid fuck in that movie.** How does one obtain fuck in liquid form, again? And has it been regulated by the Controlled Sbstances Act yet? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/69 "2002-12-18T02:01:54Z")
My vote goes for ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/70 "2002-12-18T02:07:23Z")
Damn that was stupid… (realizing that submit and preview buttons are very close together) My vote goes for [Cross My Heart](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092802) . There’s a scene in where Annette O’Toole is having sex with Martin Short and her head is banging against the headboard. With every bang she utters another word. I… think… I’m… going… to… pass… out… Anyone ever seen this movie? Hysterical! E3 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/71 "2002-12-18T02:14:03Z")
Not a movie, but I adored the scene in the first episode of the British _Queer As Folk_. Charlie Hunnam makes my nipples pointy. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Sexchange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dr.Sexchange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Sexchange)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/72 "2002-12-18T04:37:52Z")
**Color of Night** ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/73 "2002-12-18T05:19:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*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 \*\* This is a scene from the original hot shots; though the sex scene in part deux was also very funny: The chick dives off a diving board, does a backflip and lands on top of charlie sheen. An hillarious piss-take of the basic instinct scene ensues. Though my vote goes to (and I can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet) **The Naked Gun Part 2**. The sex scene with all the inuendo in it, and the creaking bed, and oooh, cracks me up evry time. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/74 "2002-12-18T05:47:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*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. \*\* I second that. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/75 "2002-12-18T07:45:39Z")
Another vote for _Dont’ Look Now_. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/76 "2002-12-18T08:02:25Z")
I’m with **foxfiregrrl** on _Better Than Chocolate_ & let’s add _The Hot Spot_, Jennifer Connelly AND Virginia Madsen, but not together:( I also loooooove the dinner table scene in _Greystoke; the Legend of Tarzan_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/77 "2002-12-18T10:34:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jehovah68 \* > \*\ ***Delicatessen** must be seen - words would not give justice to the poetic symphony of the squeaky mattress. \*\* That scene is truly inspired! The way the rhythm of the bed springs controls the rhythm of everything else in the building is just fucking hilarious and a stroke of genius. Personally, though, I liked the scenes in **Amelie** a bit better. The montage in the beginning of all the moaning and screaming was just great! And the bit in the coffee bar with all the glasses shacking off the shelf and the timing of the steamer going off at the right moment…fantastic! I do want to speak out against **Wild Things**. I fucking hated that movie, and the sex scenes were horrible. First off, I think Denise Richards is fugly as hell and her tits and face creep me out. And second…it’s just a big cock tease because you never see more than Neve Campbell’s BACK in every single “sex” scene there in. What the fuck is up with that? I admit, there doesn’t need to be nudity in a sex scene to make it good…the scene from **Delicatessen** doesn’t have any nudity, just an undershot of the bedsprings and a shot of their feet at some point…but for a movie where the sole purpose of the film was “Denise Richards gets it on with Neve Campbell several times,” it was a fucking joke. And the movie sucked to boot. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/78 "2002-12-18T12:51:36Z")
This will predate virtually all of you, but I would have to say **Coming Home** staring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Durn. The sex scene between Fonda’s character and the paralyzed character of Voight is something else. And it is one of those rare sex scenes that means something to the film (and is very well done). Usually the sex is thrown into a film just to make sure the guys are still watching. Not this one. In this one, it was part of the story and justified the characters thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/79 "2002-12-18T14:03:41Z")
A sixth vote for The tall guy. God, Emma Thompson was soooo attractive in that movie… ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/80 "2002-12-18T16:39:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dangerosa \* > \*\*Made the mistake of watching “Wild Orchid” in a co-ed group where no one was dating each other… > > Good thing we were all sober, because I think our inhibitions were the only thing keeping an orgy from breaking out. Everyone in the room was sweating when that movie was over. \*\* Your definition of _good_ must vary about 180 degrees from mine. To get back to the OP, I’ll pile on **The Tall Guy** bandwagon also. I’ll conclude by adding that the phrases “sex scene” and “Martin Short” do not belong in the same sentence. “I’m going mental, I must say!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=5)