# "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:** 4
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/61 "2006-05-06T19:23:54Z")
Second what \*\*The Swan \*\* said. Are sex scenes inherently bad or something ? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/62 "2006-05-06T22:38:39Z")
> [@Arien](#): > > 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. It’s a cute movie that I can never recommend to my mom because of that. (This has more to do with what my mom won’t watch then anything else.) I saw Zefferelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” in 9th grade. The teacher fast-forwarded, but didn’t turn the tv or stand in front of it or anything. I’ve never heard a class be that quiet. We also read Wide Sargasso Sea, which according to our books was an NC-17 movie. We never managed to convince our teacher we should watch it. 😉 When I was in middle school, a friend and I got into movies based on “classic” type books and rented “Room with a View” which was unrated. There’s no sex scenes, but there is a scene with a group of nude men playing tag… ---
**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 8, 2006, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/63 "2006-05-08T11:49:22Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t understand. Are you saying that sex scenes should be avoided whenever possible? No – how many times do I have to say this? I’m saying that there’s no reason I should have expected there to be a sex scene – which is the point of this thread. ---
**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 8, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/64 "2006-05-08T13:28:13Z")
Forgot to mention… early in the wonderful, winsome little French comedy _Amelie_, there’s a series of quick shots with a voiceover describing what’s going on in Paris at just that moment - including a group of people simultaneously having orgasms. Seemed a bit gratuitous to me. Just there for a more adult-oriented rating, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/65 "2006-05-08T18:19:54Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Forgot to mention… early in the wonderful, winsome little French comedy _Amelie_, there’s a series of quick shots with a voiceover describing what’s going on in Paris at just that moment - including a group of people simultaneously having orgasms. > > Seemed a bit gratuitous to me. Just there for a more adult-oriented rating, I wonder? It’s probably because Europeans have fewer hang-ups regarding sex. It probably never occurred to the filmmakers that this was “gratuitous”. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/66 "2006-05-08T18:38:30Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > It’s probably because Europeans have fewer hang-ups regarding sex. It probably never occurred to the filmmakers that this was “gratuitous”. It’s not even the only sex scene in the movie (though it’s the most explicit), so it’s not like they just dumped it into an otherwise squeaky-clean film. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/67 "2006-05-09T00:44:07Z")
Also not a sex scene, but something I wish I could have witnessed… It was my mom’s turn to pick the movie that the church group was going to see. She had been reading about what a great job John Travolta did in _Pulp Fiction_ but hadn’t read an actual review of the film. So she took the church group to see it, in the theater. Lord, have mercy! I’m still not sure what was worse- the language, the shooting up, the violence… And we’re Methodists, so we’re not exactly straightlaced ( 😉 ), but a few of the ladies probably never recovered! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/68 "2006-05-09T02:47:46Z")
Not sex, but as for surprise nudity, I think **About Schmidt** had the nude scene I was least expecting. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/69 "2006-05-09T04:32:41Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > It’s a cute movie that I can never recommend to my mom because of that. > (This has more to do with what my mom won’t watch then anything else.) > > I saw Zefferelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” in 9th grade. The teacher fast-forwarded, but didn’t turn the tv or stand in front of it or anything. > I’ve never heard a class be that quiet. We also read Wide Sargasso Sea, which according to our books was an NC-17 movie. We never managed to convince our teacher we should watch it. 😉 > > When I was in middle school, a friend and I got into movies based on “classic” type books and rented “Room with a View” which was unrated. There’s no sex scenes, but there is a scene with a group of nude men playing tag… In my high school (admittedly in 12th grade) we saw the movie Beloved with no censoring. That was rather surprising. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/70 "2006-05-09T14:52:29Z")
I would like to add this morning’s Pibgorn to the list: 5-9-06. [http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/index.html](http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/71 "2006-05-09T15:59:59Z")
_Legends of the Fall_, where Brad Pitt and Julia Ormond are in this tender, romantic, making-love-for-the-first-time love scene, then all of a sudden, **he’s doing her doggy-style**. It was so unexpected, I laughed out loud. Also, _The Crying Game_. The very definition of “unexpected.” 🙂 ---
**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 9, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/72 "2006-05-09T20:02:05Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > …Also, _The Crying Game_. The very definition of “unexpected.” 🙂 As Billy Crystal summarized it in his Oscars hosting: “Hey, I didn’t order this!” ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/73 "2006-05-09T20:36:15Z")
Mansfield Park. You just don’t expect sex in a Jane Austen novel turned movie. Well, you expect allusions to sex, inferences about sex, and women running off with men who are not their husbands, but not the actual sex part. ---
**Author:** ![2MuchTrivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e9bcb4/32.png) [@2MuchTrivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2MuchTrivia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/74 "2006-05-24T11:21:21Z")
Not a sex scene, just surprise nudity on _ER_. Young girl and her grandmother enter the hospital. Grandmother has a heart attack or stroke. They tear her shirt and bra open to defibrilate, the whole time the little girl is saying something to the effect of “stop it she doesn’t like that (being exposed)”. In re-runs this scene is cropped or pix’ed so you don’t see the grandmothers chest. _The Brown Bunny_ _Devil In the Flesh_ For fellatio. I thought they were unrated for “Art” reasons. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/75 "2006-05-24T11:53:09Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Also not a sex scene, but something I wish I could have witnessed… > > It was my mom’s turn to pick the movie that the church group was going to see. She had been reading about what a great job John Travolta did in _Pulp Fiction_ but hadn’t read an actual review of the film. > > So she took the church group to see it, in the theater. Lord, have mercy! I’m still not sure what was worse- the language, the shooting up, the violence… > > And we’re Methodists, so we’re not exactly straightlaced ( 😉 ), but a few of the ladies probably never recovered! > > 😃 Um, I bet Zed & Maynard’s basement sticks in their minds the most. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/76 "2006-05-24T12:47:18Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > **The Name of the Rose** is fairly graphic for a few moments with little indication or need. Other than the scene is actually in the book … for a reason [there had to be a link of humanness between Adso and the unnamed girl that he would remember until the end years of his life with a frisson of regret. Talk about the ultimate madonna/whore thing… ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/77 "2006-05-24T14:16:49Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Um, I bet Zed & Maynard’s basement sticks in their minds the most. Heh, the “sticking your tongue in the holiest of holies” comes in the first few minutes. I bet the ladies knew they were in for a ride then, but the basement had to be a real eye opener :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/78 "2006-05-24T14:41:24Z")
The most unexpected _actor_ I’ve ever seen in a sex scene was when I watched the 1970s schlock _The Other Side of Midnight_ (a Sidney Sheldon potboiler about a woman’s rise from peasant to actress to world’s richest concubine). Her first seducer is a dress shop owner played by Sorrell “Boss Hogg” Booke (this was just before Dukes). He has a sex scene. I was non verbal for three days. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/79 "2006-05-24T21:18:12Z")
Oh my god! That just brought back the most awful memory. I think it was _the Onion Field_, and James Woods was in the prison shower… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123/80 "2006-05-24T21:45:00Z")
> [@lobstermobster](#): > > 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. Boy, do you got a lot to learn about 2 guys getting it on! 😃 > [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > The Name of the Rose is fairly graphic for a few moments with little indication or need. Ah, c’mon, you call that graphic? A little titty show and ride 'em cowgirl, if memory serves… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-sex-scenes/355123.md?page=5)