# Sexiest non-sex scene since the sixties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255 "2005-02-09T20:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/1 "2005-02-09T20:00:18Z")
Say it three times fast, I dare ya. Point is, thought I’d take a little poll of the sexiest scenes involving sexual innuendo, sexual metaphor, whatever, but not involving actual sex. I feel there should be a division here: pre-60s and post-60s films, since prior to the 60s, filmmakers were ONLY able to portray sex through metaphor and innuendo, giving them a significant advantage over post-60s filmmakers, who, if they wanted to portray sex, could do simply do so. This will apply only to movies. If you want to mention a TV scene, feel free to, but network TV still works under strictures almost as strict as filmmakers did prior to the 60s. I’ll start by nominating a little-known scene from a movie called “The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.” It was post-sixties, I believe, but as it was aimed at a teen market was censored. At one point, the bad guys kidnapped well-endowed female lead Deborah Walley. They tie her, wearing a see-through purple negligee, to a log in an abandoned sawmill, with her legs spread wide to either side of the log. Then they turn on the saw and send the log with her on it slowly down toward it. Then the good guys arrive and begin fighting it out with the bad guys. Periodically the good guys would get to the switch and back the log up, but then the bad guys would get to the switch and send it forward. As a result, we had all these scenes of a half-naked, wailing, shreking, woman doing some SERIOUS writhing as she got closer and closer to the saw, so close that the saw would start cutting the log and as the woman shreiked louder and writhed even more vigorously, a huge shower of sawdust would erupt from between her legs as the saw started cutting the log. Then the good guys would hitch the switch as the woman slumped in grateful release. Then the bad guys would hit the switch and the whole process would start over again. And lest we miss the point, a lot of Walley’s sawmill scenes were shot with a Heaving Breast Cam, it’s viewpoint fixed just above her head, so that we see her heaving breasts and writhing thighs and then we see the sawdust erupt like fireworks from between her legs. This is undoubtedly the most imaginative use of the old “tied to the log in a sawmill” cliche I have ever seen in my life. So, anybody else got anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/2 "2005-02-09T20:24:41Z")
Tarzan, pulling off Jane’s glove, in Disney’s _Tarzan_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/3 "2005-02-09T20:40:36Z")
Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson) taking a book from Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) in _Remains of the Day_. Strangely enough, there was a wonderful moment in a made-for-TV _Perry Mason_ movie in which Della Street (Barbara Hale) was sleeping and Perry draped his XXXXL overcoat around her. The look on her sleeping face as she snuggled into it expressed a familiarity and comfort (the smell, the warmth, etc.) that- I dunno- even those these actors were pushing 70 (possibly behind them) and Raymond Burr was the size of Cleveland it was still just a very sexy moment. I’ll go now. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/4 "2005-02-09T20:49:54Z")
There’s always the dinner scene in **Tom Jones** , where the food is consumed in a very sexual manner. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/5 "2005-02-09T20:53:25Z")
Tom Jones is the one that immediately came to mind for me, too, but it was in the 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/6 "2005-02-09T21:03:52Z")
_The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini_ was made in 1966. It’s been many years since I’ve seen it, but this was the movie that made me reconsider the rule that any movie with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone in it couldn’t be all bad. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/7 "2005-02-09T21:06:30Z")
The scene in _The English Patient_ where the guy from “Lost” puts the woman from _Amelie_ in a parachute harness and hands her a flare, then sets her bouncing all over a temple to see the artwork high up on the walls. Not anywhere near as explicit as the OP, of course, but still pretty damn sexy. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/8 "2005-02-09T22:15:10Z")
John Book dancing with Rachel Lapp in _Witness_. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/9 "2005-02-09T22:22:55Z")
Creepy sexual innuendo abounds in “Silence of the Lambs”, but the most unsettling bit had to be the leer that Clarice Starling’s boss gives her as they shake hands at her academy graduation. At least Lecter and Buffalo Bill are out & out, unmistakeable psychopaths, but this scene intimates that Crawford harbors similar feelings for her, and that he might be a bit “off-kilter” as well. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/10 "2005-02-09T23:14:33Z")
Ummmm can anyone say **Entrapment** when Catherine is working her way through the strings and she’s blindfolded. DAMN she is hot, but DAMMMMMN she was even hotter in that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/11 "2005-02-09T23:31:17Z")
In _The Incredibles_, towards the opening of the movie. Elasti-Girl and Mr. Incredible (then not yet married) meet while they’re on their crimefighting beats. Elasti-Girl tells Mr. Incredible that he needs to be more flexible, while sort of flowing around him. It’s difficult to describe, of course, and even more difficult to pull off without superpowers, but incredibly sexual on-screen. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/12 "2005-02-09T23:43:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In _The Incredibles_, towards the opening of the movie. Elasti-Girl and Mr. Incredible (then not yet married) meet while they’re on their crimefighting beats. Elasti-Girl tells Mr. Incredible that he needs to be more flexible, while sort of flowing around him. It’s difficult to describe, of course, and even more difficult to pull off without superpowers, but incredibly sexual on-screen. Agreed! Plus 10! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/13 "2005-02-10T00:04:36Z")
How about Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in **The King and I**? Just about any scene, but especially the dancing. There’s something about a challenging stance that can be a real turn on. Yul was a great stander. Tim Olyphant does it with Molly Parker in **Deadwood** , when they’re standing in line for smallpox vaccinations. She starts to move forward, and he moves from beside her to in front of her, not touching, just standing there. It was _hot_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/14 "2005-02-10T00:07:36Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Creepy sexual innuendo abounds in “Silence of the Lambs”, but the most unsettling bit had to be the leer that Clarice Starling’s boss gives her as they shake hands at her academy graduation. At least Lecter and Buffalo Bill are out & out, unmistakeable psychopaths, but this scene intimates that Crawford harbors similar feelings for her, and that he might be a bit “off-kilter” as well. And you found this scene sexy? Uh…ok. (plus, I think you’re reading _way_ more into that scene than what was intended). ---
**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:** [February 10, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/15 "2005-02-10T00:33:40Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Ummmm can anyone say **Entrapment** when Catherine is working her way through the strings and she’s blindfolded. DAMN she is hot, but DAMMMMMN she was even hotter in that scene. Also Catherine Zeta Jones with Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro, when they first encounter each other and are swordfighting and flirting at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/16 "2005-02-10T00:35:51Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > The scene in _The English Patient_ where the guy from “Lost” puts the woman from _Amelie_ in a parachute harness and hands her a flare, then sets her bouncing all over a temple to see the artwork high up on the walls. Not anywhere near as explicit as the OP, of course, but still pretty damn sexy. Ummm That is Juliette Binoche in The English Patient. She wasn’t in Amelie. But it was sexy. I nominate Bridget Fonda eating ravioli in Point of No Return. But that leads to sex. Ann Margret in Tommy. The beans, the pillow, the agony and the ecastay. Also in The Lion King the sequence for Can you Feel the Love Tonight. It’s filled with pre-sixties sexual images and then that song title. The Little Mermaid, during the Kiss the Girl number she gives him a look. It’s not a Kiss Me look, it is a F\*\*\* ME NOW look. There is a bit in My Life as a Dog where two young kids have a very sexual scene. They don’t have sex obviously but it is really tense. It is the scene where they unwrap her (just developing) breasts from a bandage that she wears so she can play sports. And one on the Pre 60s or innocent side. The Honestly Sincere song from the musical Bye Bye Birdie is basically an orgy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/17 "2005-02-10T01:04:13Z")
How about the scene in _The Empire Strikes Back_ when Han and Leia are working on the _Falcon_ and he starts rubbing her hands? The whole, Han: I think you like me because I’m a scoundrel. Leia: I happen to like nice men. Han: I’m nice men. Leia: No you’re not, you’re-_smooch_ Just the look on his face, that sexy voice. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/18 "2005-02-10T01:19:41Z")
My vote is for _Body Heat_ when Kathleen Turner has shown William Hurt the wind chimes, he starts to leave, looks at her and then smashes the sidelite of the door, lets himself inside, and amidst a steamy kiss grabs her ass. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/19 "2005-02-10T03:18:01Z")
(And now for the “freak” post) _The Secret of NIMH_; Mrs. Brisby’s escape attempts from a bird cage. What? ::Pause:: Crap. I just killed the thread, didn’t I? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/20 "2005-02-10T03:34:33Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Tarzan, pulling off Jane’s glove, in Disney’s _Tarzan_. \*\*\*BING!!! I don’t even think the filmmakers and animators know how sexy that scene is, judging by the DVD commentary. Here’s one: The first appearance of Venus (played by Uma Thurman) in _Baron Munchausen_. And in _Doc Hollywood_, a rather forgettable Michael J Fox movie, the scene of Julie Warner emerging from after bathing in the lake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255.md?page=2)