# "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:** 3
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/41 "2006-05-03T17:02:23Z")
Not a movie, but I was completely flabbergasted by the animal/human/dwarf swingers’ club scene in _Wicked._ I likes me some sex scenes but was just… abrupt. And oddly timed. And just weird. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/42 "2006-05-03T18:38:20Z")
I went to see _The Cider House Rules_ with my then-future-mother-in-law. I’d read the book, and I think I knew from the previews that there was some general Charlize Theron nudity, but I didn’t expect the sex scene in the woods to be so… well, maybe not graphic, technically, but you could, um, tell exactly what was happening when. In terms of climaxes, I mean. And that was a little awkward. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/43 "2006-05-03T18:57:52Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > 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. Ditto except for it was in a movie theatre and I was with my parents. I was probably 10-12 years old. ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/44 "2006-05-03T19:05:03Z")
Ah, that’s too bad. You missed the naked lady standing on her head! ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/45 "2006-05-03T19:14:47Z")
I remember being taken by surprise when Ken Russell’s **Women in Love** included a lengthy nude-wrestling scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. Nekkid men were rare in serious films in 1969. On the big screen, those sweaty male bodies looked mighty fine, and the frontal nudity was a pleasant shock! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/46 "2006-05-03T20:47:09Z")
Not exactly a sex scene per se, but one of my friends tried to watch The Aristocrats with her parents thinking it was a documentary about comedians. Oops. I think they lasted 7 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/47 "2006-05-04T00:56:52Z")
> [@Quasimodal](#): > > Not exactly a sex scene per se, but one of my friends tried to watch The Aristocrats with her parents thinking it was a documentary about comedians. She’s half right. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/48 "2006-05-04T02:43:03Z")
**Munich** , with the pregnant sex scene at the beginning and the naked assassin in Holland later. Unxpected. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/49 "2006-05-04T03:01:31Z")
> [@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. OH MY GOD! I forgot all about that. How creepy was _THAT_ ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/50 "2006-05-04T03:03:15Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I guess it’s unlikely, what with the massive press, but maybe _somebody_ out there didn’t expect to see Heath Ledger boink Jake Gylnwhatsisface in Brokeback Mountain. I knew there was going to be some sex but I was NOT prepared for that first ass slappin trist. I thought the movie was going to be more lovey dovey than that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/51 "2006-05-05T19:19:08Z")
When I was in high school the A/V geeks club (of which I was kinda/sorta a member) settled in one afternoon to watch John Boorman’s _Excalibur_. Some had never seen it before and were surprised - and pleased - with all the sex scenes. Of course, when would the Dean choose to walk in but during…? Major embarassment ensued. But at least he didn’t ask us to turn it off. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/52 "2006-05-05T22:00:16Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I guess it’s unlikely, what with the massive press, but maybe _somebody_ out there didn’t expect to see Heath Ledger boink Jake Gylnwhatsisface in Brokeback Mountain. What _really_ surprised me was… no pudding. Not even a spoonful. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/53 "2006-05-06T02:13:23Z")
Not a movie, but a book. It was my turn to buy the new Ben Elton, which was Past Mortem. So it was me who got to add the warning about Fisting and corophagia scenes … to my deeply religious friends … and my dad. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/54 "2006-05-06T02:26:56Z")
My grandparents took us to see _The Blue Lagoon_ in the theater. Eeeeeeewwwwww… It wasn’t even that graphic, just gross under the circumstances. How about _Top Secret!_? Did anybody else see that cow coming? Nigel sure didn’t… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/55 "2006-05-06T02:58:22Z")
> [@MixieArmadillo](#): > > Not a movie, but I was completely flabbergasted by the animal/human/dwarf swingers’ club scene in _Wicked._ I likes me some sex scenes but was just… abrupt. And oddly timed. And just weird. You mean Animal not animal. I don’t think it’s abrupt either. By that point, it’s clear that the Philosophy Club is a place to go to have sex. The actual arangement is a bit odd, but the college has a proffessor who is a Goat. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/56 "2006-05-06T03:27:02Z")
OK, I’ll admit to being more than a bit naive, but I’ll admit to being somewhat blindsided at the drive-in (this was many years ago) when rampant humping broke out on-screen between William Shatner(!!) and Angie Dickinson in the low-budget gangster flick _Big Bad Mama_. I suppose I could also mention the scene where Candy Clark decides she’ll try a little alien strange with David Bowie in [IThe Man Who Fell to Earth\*. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/57 "2006-05-06T06:14:21Z")
I went to see King Arthur with my pastor’s wife. I was not expecting the sex scene when Guinevere goes to King Arthur’s room. I died a thousand deaths. Anyway, remember the scene in City of Angels. Where the female lead (forgot her name) keeps asking Nicholas Cage’s character to describe the sex to her. Then she moves a little and says “How’s that?” “What about that?” Yep, went to see that with my mother. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/58 "2006-05-06T06:44:09Z")
> [@McNew](#): > > 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. I would hardly call that “pointless T&A.” She’s a married woman in her own bedroom. The fact that she _doesn’t_ cinch it closed is a clue that she’s beginning to accept that Viggo is her husband, they have a history together, and thus why would she bother to cinch up? It’s not like he hasn’t seen it all before. It’s similar to the Julianne Moore scene in _Short Cuts_, actually - don’t married people walk around each other naked once in a while? It feels real to me. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/59 "2006-05-06T17:48:19Z")
I saw Love, Actually with my mom, thinking it would be a fairly innocuous romantic comedy. I was surprised that one of the stories centered on two movie stand-ins who did all the sex scenes. How embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/60 "2006-05-06T18:11:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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). I don’t understand. Are you saying that sex scenes should be avoided whenever possible? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=4)