# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/61 "2005-02-15T01:19:00Z")
Just watched the newly DVD’d **I Wanna Hold Your Hand** , and dropped in to nominate Pam’s (Nancy Allen) scene in the hotel room with Paul McCartney’s bass. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/62 "2005-02-15T01:47:48Z")
CBS cut that scene when they showed _I Wanna Hold Your Hand_ in the early 1980s! ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/63 "2005-02-15T02:23:46Z")
Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson in [_Hopscotch_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JL3W/qid%3D1108434259/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/102-2961040-1672961), throughout the movie, but with a couple of scenes in particular: 1)The restaurant scene towards the beginning when they meet. It’s a chat about wine on the surface, but the whole thing is a polite overlay for a discussion about romance when you’re older. According to the director in the DVD intro, Matthau came up with that scene, which is even more interesting because (from what I understand) he touches on the “French Paradox” years before the food community embraced it in magazines (the idea that red wine assists in the digestion of rich foods, especially dairy). 2)A continuation of this discussion shortly after, when Matthau and Jackson are playing cards. She’s roundly beaten him at gin rummy and begins tallying the amount he owes her, and he shushes her so he can conduct/whistle along with the Mozart on the stereo. When she finally tells him the total, he asks if she’ll take in trade, she asks what he’s offering, and he says “like antiques?” She escorts him to bed, and the rest is left to our imagination. Wonderful scenes, and a wonderful movie for people who like spy films without being James Bond fans…this is the story that would happen if Bond was forced to retire and decided to spill the beans on MI6, while simultaneously rekindling a romance with a former lover. And it encourages repeat viewing. ---
**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 15, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/64 "2005-02-15T19:23:47Z")
Come to think of it, the finger-sucking Kathleen Turner did in The Man With Two Brains was pretty good, too, even if it was played for laughs. Steve Martin’s responses were what really put it over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/65 "2005-02-16T06:02:22Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I’d like to nominate the armouring scene from **Last Samurai**. It was dead sexy…with no sex. I’ll second that. I was disappointed that Algren actually kissed Taka in an earlier scene though. It was an anachronism and didn’t create as much tension as a more realistic eyes meeting, then looking away with intense longing scene would have been. It was meant to be sexy, but the opening for “Romancing the Stone” was pretty darn hot. Competant women with knives turn me on. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/66 "2005-02-17T00:34:09Z")
…Muraki stroking a wineglass while spouting sexual innuendo to Tsuzuki in _Yami no Matsuei_. Yes, I know I just killed the thread by bringing anime into it. ---
**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 17, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/67 "2005-02-17T13:15:48Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > …Muraki stroking a wineglass while spouting sexual innuendo to Tsuzuki in _Yami no Matsuei_. > > Yes, I know I just killed the thread by bringing anime into it. Fae Valentine, sashaying into the Chinese tobacco shop, in her first appearence in _Cowboy Bebop_. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255/68 "2005-02-17T16:37:17Z")
Mel Gipson and Rene Russo in Lethal Weapon 3? I think it’s an incredibly sexy scene when they compare wounds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-non-sex-scene-since-the-sixties/289255.md?page=3)