# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/81 "2002-12-18T17:35:27Z")
No mention of **Fatal Attraction** yet. That scene in the elevator, spilling into the kitchen was great. Maybe the outcome causes people to block out that early scene! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/82 "2002-12-18T17:47:38Z")
‘Bad Lieutenant’ had several. ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/83 "2002-12-18T18:14:05Z")
**El Elvis Rojo** , FYI, Neve Campbell had a nudity clause when she did that movie. That’s why you only see her back and not much else. I really liked the scene between Michael Corleone and his new wife, Apollonia, in **The Godfather**. Just romantic. Also, **Like Water for Chocolate** had some good scenes in it. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/84 "2002-12-18T18:14:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woolly \* > \*\*a bit out of left field, but **The Name of the Rose** \*\* I second this one. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/85 "2002-12-18T18:30:29Z")
_Exit to Eden._ Dana Delany and Paul Mercurio enjoying croissants for breakfast in New Orleans. [kramden]Haminahaminahamina.[/kramden] ---
**Author:** ![RenMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@RenMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenMan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/86 "2002-12-18T19:02:59Z")
**Dances with Wolves** and especially: **Oscar and Lucinda** ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/87 "2002-12-18T19:19:46Z")
There’s a couple of fabulous sex scenes in Pinero. Delicious Benjamin Bratt and a gorgeous woman whose name I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/88 "2002-12-18T20:03:20Z")
I’ll second **yojimbo** ’s mention of _Stealing Beauty_. Wow. Good movie, too. Also seconding **cuate** ’s pick: _A Walk on the Moon_. That waterfall thing is a personal fantasy of mine, and damn if Diane Lane didn’t do it for me. _grin_ _Henry and June_ has a lot of good ones, but especially the one between Anais Nin and Henry Miller’s wife. I’m not even a “girl-girl” kind of guy, but that scene was incredibly well-done. The scene near the end of _Quills_, between Joaquin Phoenix and Kate Winslet, is very good at the beginning, but very disturbing by the time it ends. Probably because she’s dead. :eek: It’s a bit of a downer, if you know what I mean. _wink, wink, nudge, nudge_ ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/89 "2002-12-18T20:22:54Z")
[I thought Masquerade had a pretty good scene with Meg Tilly.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095599) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/90 "2002-12-18T21:33:51Z")
To round out my top 3, there’s the previously mentioned **Enemy at the Gate** , and **Name of the Rose** , but I also was to nominate **Rob Roy**. Lian Neeson and Jessica Lange went at it fully clothed, and I still couldn’t walk… ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/91 "2002-12-20T21:58:00Z")
Two others that spoke to me (I am in agreement about lots, including "\*\* Coming Home\*\* " - wow!) I really, really like the train scene in “Risky Business”, and there is a scene between Rachel Ward (an exquisite looking woman with a spectacular body) and Jeff Bridges (The Ultimate Male) in "\*\* Against All Odds \*\* " where they are making love in a cave in some Mexican ruins, and she’s crying, and man, that just stuck to me and with me and \. I also just watched "\*\* Unfaithful \*\* " last night and there are some very intense and yummy moments in that. "\*\* The Name of the Rose \*\* " sex scene is sweet and moving and sad. I love how he refers to her as “The only earthly love I’ve ever known.” ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/92 "2002-12-21T03:04:47Z")
Another vote for _Out of Sight_; we see Clooney and Lopez in the hotel bar, talking and getting to know each other, then we see them in the hotel room in bed, but still hear their conversation continuing downstairs in the bar. And there were those quiet little freeze-frames, as the snow fell outside the window… Whoof, that was hot. ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/93 "2002-12-21T04:04:56Z")
I’ll throw my vote in for the limo ride scene in [No Way Out](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093640). Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/94 "2002-12-21T04:16:45Z")
Best gay sex scene in a non porno movie (soon to be an Oscar category) was any scene with a nekkid Jude Law in WILDE. While not a sex scene, the best gay foreplay scene has to have been the kiss in IN & OUT, and best gay erotic scene not to involve sex was the skinnydipping romp with Julian Sands and Rupert Graves in ROOM WITH A VIEW. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/95 "2002-12-21T04:19:42Z")
Stupidest sex scene in a non-porn movie: Madonna and Willem Dafoe in BODY OF EVIDENCE. The producers tried soooo hard to be kinky and hot and it was just too strained. Unlikeliest actor to have a graphic sex scene in a movie: Sorrell “Boss Hogg” Booke in THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT. That’s one hairy ugly back I never wanted to see. ---
**Author:** ![JungleLove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@JungleLove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JungleLove)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/96 "2002-12-21T04:20:53Z")
One more vote for The Tall Guy. Hilarious & memorable. Top 3 personal favorites: Masterpiece Theatre’s 2000 miniseries Anna Karenina & also Firelight & Deja Vu b/c Stephen Dillane is wunderbar. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/97 "2002-12-21T04:31:10Z")
**Brad Pitt** and **Julia Ormond** in _Legends of the Fall_ [sup] [sub](and yes, I know it was a hokey movie but I liked it).[/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/98 "2002-12-21T13:09:25Z")
The Limo Sex Scene in No Way Out - Sean Young and Kevin Costner. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/99 "2002-12-21T16:47:09Z")
Most disturbing graphic sex scene: either of Kyle McLachlan and Isabella Rosellini’s sex scenes in BLUE VELVET. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562/100 "2002-12-21T18:08:10Z")
Anyone remember a small film from the 80’s called “The Coca-Cola Kid”? Eric Roberts and an Australian actress. I remember some great scenes from that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-best-sex-scene-in-a-mainstream-movie-not-porn/141562.md?page=6)