# "Surprise" sex scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123 "2006-05-02T17:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/21 "2006-05-02T20:57:47Z")
My wife unwittingly rented Zefferelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” for her middle school class one year – needless to say, she didn’t expect that in Shakespeare. Olivia Hussey – schwing! Had a similar experience with the Pacino/Irons “Merchant of Venice” and I believe she’s learned her lesson in regards to Shakespeare and the movie business. At least, I hope so. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/22 "2006-05-02T21:10:09Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > My wife unwittingly rented Zefferelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” for her middle school class one year – needless to say, she didn’t expect that in Shakespeare. > > Olivia Hussey – schwing! Lucky kids! 😉 That particular scene was excised from the video that my English class watched in 8th grade. The editing left some snow in its place, so we knew we were missing something! I’ll second _Enemy at the Gates_. There are two things worthwhile about that movie, the first fifteen or so minutes of “Welcome to Stalingrad” and the bunker sex. Perhaps historically inaccurate, but damn hot. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/23 "2006-05-02T21:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > One of Peter Jackson’s early movies was Meet the Feebles… _“Sodomy, everybody thinks it’s odd of me…”_ Sorry, can’t help it. Damn catchy tune. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/24 "2006-05-02T21:30:48Z")
Back in the 80’s I took a girl I didn’t know very well to see “Ghost Story” ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/)) and was just a wee-bit uncomfortable with the incredibly rocking sex scene in that – which I didn’t expect given the cast. Fred Astaire – I mean, c’mon Fred Astaire?! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/25 "2006-05-02T22:33:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Well, this might not exactly apply since the scene is so quick, but the first thing I thought of is the dude in the dog mask blowing the other dude in **The Shining**. Not sure if the rents would even catch what’s going on there. **WOOK,** I think your parents not only knew what they were doing, but could have offered a couple pointers. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/26 "2006-05-02T23:35:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Well, this might not exactly apply since the scene is so quick, but the first thing I thought of is the dude in the dog mask blowing the other dude in **The Shining**. Not sure if the rents would even catch what’s going on there. I know I didn’t catch it until reading the book and learning who was wearing the costume. Lord that was a freaky scene! It just scared the hell out of me! Not the blowjob, just the empty dog-face. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/27 "2006-05-02T23:44:54Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > I know plenty of woefully misguided parents took their kids to **Team America: World Police** thinking dolls=good clean fun and were treated to a few excruciating minutes of doll sex With a poster which featured the “R” rating logo, the byline “From the creators of _South Park_” and the tagline “Putting the ‘F’ back in ‘Freedom?’” My God, parents are stupider than I thought. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/28 "2006-05-03T00:17:36Z")
When I saw _California Suite_, I wasn’t quite expecting Maggie Smith nekkid. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/29 "2006-05-03T00:19:27Z")
Anyone remember the MTV show _Liquid Television_? It was a showcase of various animation and other little weird skits (_Beavis and Butthead_ premiered on the show), and I always liked it. Then I was at the local grocery store renting movies one day and saw it on the shelf. I picked it up and it was labelled: “Parents-this is NOT a cartoon for kids-it is comedy for adults!” or something like that. I wonder what happened to have the people at Giant Eagle stick that on. I hope the kids liked Stick Figure Theater, or Dog Boy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/30 "2006-05-03T00:54:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > When I saw _California Suite_, I wasn’t quite expecting Maggie Smith nekkid. Google Image Search fails me again!! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/31 "2006-05-03T02:30:44Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > **WOOK,** I think your parents not only knew what they were doing, but could have offered a couple pointers. EEEEEEEWWWWW YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY… My comment was based on the fact that I myself didn’t know what they were doing (until further viewings), but thanks for an additional reason for brain bleach 😛 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/32 "2006-05-03T02:43:26Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > EEEEEEEWWWWW YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY… > > My comment was based on the fact that I myself didn’t know what they were doing (until further viewings), but thanks for an additional reason for brain bleach 😛 Glad to help. I’m actually thinking of marketing my own brand of Mindwash, with Bleach Alternative. The marketing campaign would be centered around a song called, “Your Parents Did That, Too.” ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/33 "2006-05-03T05:31:45Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > **The Name of the Rose** is fairly graphic for a few moments with little indication or need. I was going to make the same comment, actually. It made for some rather amusing teenager comments and a red-faced World History teacher back in 10th grade, private Catholic all-boys school. 🙂 And yet, I have to assume that Brother Riley had seen the movie previously… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/34 "2006-05-03T10:37:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s not at all obvious – this was a serious Brazilian film starring Sonia Braga. It was the basis for the Broadway musical **Sarava** , which had, IIRC, no graphic sex scenes, and was remade as the Sally Field/James Caan movie **Kiss Me Goodbye**. One of the two husbands is _dead_ – it’s not about polyandry. Why would I think it had graphic sex scenes? > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077452/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077452/) Uh, you ever read the book? Plus, while I’ve never been there, my impression is that Brazilians are somewhat more open with sexual matters than Americans are. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/35 "2006-05-03T10:44:01Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > an (adult) friend of mine went to see **A History of Violence** with his parents prepared for the violence, not the sex on the stairs Heh, I thought that as soon as I saw the thread title. What I _really_ wasn’t prepared for was the full frontal nudity that (briefly) followed. They covered everything up in the two sex scenes and now we suddenly see a full frontal shot? Not as shocking as the injuries sustained by the hench men later, but a bit pointless and out of left field to say the least 😛 I would have thought that parents going to see Team America would have looked at the rating and not the fact that it was a puppet show. Although IMDB suggests that in France it was a surprisinly low cert 😕 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/36 "2006-05-03T11:55:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Uh, you ever read the book? Nope, but it’s irrelevant. (Heck, I didn’t even know it was based onm a book – none of the reviews mentioned that. Or the sex scene.) Unless the sex scene is essential, there’s no reason for it to show up in the movie, and even then you can get around it. I’ve seen plenty of movies based on books that had sex scenes, but they weren’t in the flick. (And it wasn’t in the play or the Americanized version, I believe). ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/37 "2006-05-03T12:19:05Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Heh, I thought that as soon as I saw the thread title. What I _really_ wasn’t prepared for was the full frontal nudity that (briefly) followed. They covered everything up in the two sex scenes and now we suddenly see a full frontal shot? Not as shocking as the injuries sustained by the hench men later, but a bit pointless and out of left field to say the least I’m glad to hear someone say this- I really didn’t understand the point of having her walk out of the bathroom with her robe open. It wasn’t the kind of movie that you would expect a scene with pointless T&A (like a teen sex comedy, for instance), and Maria Bello seems too much of a qualified and dignified actress to throw in some nudity where none is really required. Especially considering the previous scene, and how she ended that scene, I would have expected her to have that robe tightly cinched when she next appeared. It just left me scratching my head. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/38 "2006-05-03T12:19:50Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Heh, I thought that as soon as I saw the thread title. What I _really_ wasn’t prepared for was the full frontal nudity that (briefly) followed. They covered everything up in the two sex scenes and now we suddenly see a full frontal shot? Not as shocking as the injuries sustained by the hench men later, but a bit pointless and out of left field to say the least 😛 I think Maria Bello has it in her contract to appear full nude at least once in every film, sort of like Harvey Keitel. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/39 "2006-05-03T12:53:34Z")
My mind immediately flashed to the first time I saw “The Jerk”. I was about ten years old and my brother and I were on a trip to Washington DC with our grandparents. We were all sitting up late and watching HBO. In the movie, a woman rides up to Steve Martin on a motorcycle, points to the seat, and he gets on. (At this point, I heard my grandma say, “uh-oh” very quietly.) The lady takes Steve to her room, throws him on the bed, and you hear the sound of her pulling down his zipper. End of scene. Me and my brother were petrified with embarrassment. Apparently we decided that watching sexy stuff in the same room with our grandparents wasn’t all that bad, because the show that came on right after The Jerk was some kind of burlesque show. I distinctly remember one naked lady with giant jahoobies who did a handstand. It was dark in the room, but I know darn well our grandparents knew we were awake because we were giggling. To this day, I wonder why they didn’t just change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/40 "2006-05-03T14:10:38Z")
I’ve forgotten the exact title, but it was a PBS show on Henry VIII and his wives. One of his wives (Anne Boylen, maybe?) was griping that of course she couldn’t produce an heir if Henry wouldn’t have sex with her, so he just pushed her over onto her knees, threw up her skirt and started going at it. She’s protesting that she wanted to pleasure him. The whole scene startled me. I was taping the show to show a high school class, but there was no way I could show it with that scene intact. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=3)