# Why don't they clean up after sex in the movies?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 2, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603 "2015-02-02T14:15:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/41 "2015-02-03T04:43:56Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> I can think of two shows, both by Shonda Rimes, where a couple have an illicit tryst somewhere “dangerous” leaving the woman’s panties behind. All I can think is how she must have had uh … stuff running down her legs afterward without even panties to help contain it.
Maybe they’ve omitted the part where he uses and then disposes of a condom??
And yeah, characters keeping their bras on just makes me 😕 especially in Sex and the City – Samantha is supposed to be so uninhibited, but keeps her bra on?!
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/42 "2015-02-03T05:08:20Z")
The Americans has a scene where the lead and his mark clean up after intercourse.
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/43 "2015-02-03T14:14:27Z")
I just leave it for the ushers to clean up. It’s their job.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/44 "2015-02-03T14:32:48Z")
Considering the pornography industry is making billions, I’d say they’re cleaning up just fine.
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/45 "2015-02-03T16:39:12Z")
> [@DinoR](#):
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> They manged to make bodily fluids a plot point in Something About Mary. They cut out lots of reality in movies in the name of moving the story along. Why would this be any different.
Good point…I actually thought of that movie a month ago when I first considered starting this thread but must have forgotten about it.
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/46 "2015-02-03T16:44:51Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> I don’t recall too many scenes of people grunting on the pot and realistically wiping, either.
Not the same at all. One is an integral part of a function shown all the time. The other function is rarely shown at all thank goodness.
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### Author:  [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/47 "2015-02-03T16:52:31Z")
Hey Stiffler, how’s the pale ale?
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/48 "2015-02-03T16:55:45Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> ETA: I’d bet you’d find such a scene, presented with an uncomfortably clinical and prying edge, in a modern Scandinavian film. Their film sensibility includes rather unflinching shots of things US/Anglophone directors mash up a bit with cuts, long shots, etc.
There’s a fairly graphic sexual-fluid scene in the 2010 Danish comedy [Klown](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1680136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).
TMI spoiler:
The male lead decides to surprise his sleeping wife with a “pearl necklace”…then turns around to see his wife standing in the doorway, and realizes he just did the deed all over his mother-in-law.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/49 "2015-02-03T17:24:52Z")
> [@Flywheel](#):
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> There’s a fairly graphic sexual-fluid scene in the 2010 Danish comedy [Klown](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1680136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).
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> TMI spoiler:
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> The male lead decides to surprise his sleeping wife with a “pearl necklace”…then turns around to see his wife standing in the doorway, and realizes he just did the deed all over his mother-in-law.
Oi vay - the [Grape Nuts commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnJSTpHsXc)went porn.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/50 "2015-02-03T20:15:33Z")
> [@What\_the](#):
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> Not the same at all. One is an integral part of a function shown all the time. The other function is rarely shown at all thank goodness.
I’m pretty sure “the other function” has a pretty integral relationship with eating, and I see people eat in shows and movies all the time.
😉
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/51 "2015-02-03T20:32:21Z")
> [@RikWriter](#):
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> One that sticks in my memory is from the original Fun with Dick and Jane.
The only one I can bring to mind is a scene from one of the blaxploitation films of ca. 1972, where two dudes have a conversation while one is grunt-plopping.
Nicole Kidman takes a whiz (with sound effects) while Tom Cruise and she are getting ready for a party. That must be early in _Eyes Wide Shut_ because we gave up on it after about 15 minutes.
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### Author:  [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/52 "2015-02-03T22:10:25Z")
Three waste elimination scenes I can think of but not yet mentioned. Kelsey Grammer in The Pentagon Wars has a discussion with one of his subordinates while sitting on the throne and unrolls a hand full of paper. Liv Tyler in One Night At McCools urinating while having a conversation with Matt Dillon. (Her car wash scene in this is a very sexy 2 minutes I’ve replayed many times.) And Billy Bob Thorton drops a duce that you hear splash down in this past summer’s FX series Fargo.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/53 "2015-02-03T22:50:33Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> The only one I can bring to mind is a scene from one of the blaxploitation films of ca. 1972, where two dudes have a conversation while one is grunt-plopping.
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> Nicole Kidman takes a whiz (with sound effects) while Tom Cruise and she are getting ready for a party. That must be early in _Eyes Wide Shut_ because we gave up on it after about 15 minutes.
Doesn’t Nicole Kidman pee ON Zac Efron in some recent movie? Not sure about the sound effects.
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### Author:  [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/54 "2015-02-03T22:51:34Z")
> [@Turek](#):
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> For the same reason there’s always a parking spot near the door.
And whenever the hero knocks on a door there’s always someone in, and they always instantly open it.
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/55 "2015-02-04T01:30:06Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#):
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> Also, remarks about men having a tendency to shower and leave after sex aren’t common but I know I’ve seen it mentioned or being a part of the story.
I feel like one doesn’t see this so much anymore, but it used to be something of a cliche for television shows to indicate that two characters had just hooked up by showing one in the bedroom with either the sound of the shower in the background and/or with the other one walking into the room freshly showered.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/56 "2015-02-04T01:37:52Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> …And yeah, characters keeping their bras on just makes me 😕 especially in Sex and the City – Samantha is supposed to be so uninhibited, but keeps her bra on?!
Are you watching the original version, or the syndication edits for basic cable? The later is rife with bleeps, digital underwear, & missing scenes.
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/57 "2015-02-04T02:06:27Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> Are you watching the original version, or the syndication edits for basic cable? The later is rife with bleeps, digital underwear, & missing scenes.
They wear underwear on their fingers?
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/58 "2015-02-04T02:14:11Z")
Has anybody else seen the excellent Chris Rock film “Top Five”? There’s a pretty memorable scene involving post-sex wet spots.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/59 "2015-02-04T03:10:55Z")
Pam on the very funny FX animated spy spoof _Archer_ is often shown on the throne, going about her business.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/61 "2015-02-09T02:28:55Z")
You’re talking about people who kiss in the morning without brushing their teeth, even after a night of drinking. Obviously, all their bodily fluids are magical.
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