# Why don't they clean up after sex in the movies?
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**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")
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/62 "2015-02-09T02:37:53Z")
**Crimes of Passion** (1984, Ken Russell dir.) has kind of a convoluted premise; Kathleen Turner plays Joanna Crane, a top sportswear designer who by night becomes “China Blue,” a grungy street prostitute in dire need of an emotional connection with her clients. One of them (played by Bruce Davison) dashes for the shower right after he finishes, prompting the memorable comment from her: “You just can’t wait to wash me off of you, can you?”
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/63 "2015-02-09T03:26:25Z")
> [@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.
Ah, OK, yes. Does SJP ever actually show anything in the real version?
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### Author:  [@Tuxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuxie)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/64 "2015-02-09T15:59:43Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> Ah, OK, yes. Does SJP ever actually show anything in the real version?
Yes, but her toucan nose is always strategically blocking the goods in every shot.
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/65 "2015-02-11T17:18:57Z")
> [@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.
I think I saw that scene yesterday in a biopic of Melvin Van Peebles (which I’d highly recommend btw).
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### Author:  [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/66 "2015-02-11T20:05:24Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> As Hitchcock said, “Because it would be dull.”
My wife shows purebred Keeshonden. I’ve been to enough dog shows and been her substitute handler to agree with her that _[Best In Show](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218839/)_ is not actually a comedy, but is in fact a documentary.
She says it’s totally unrealistic, though, because you don’t get to see the six hours it took to groom the poodle. I countered with the argument that no sane audience would sit through six hours of poodle-grooming just to see Eugene Levy be mildly amusing.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/67 "2015-02-11T20:12:23Z")
I know I wouldn’t.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/68 "2015-02-11T20:21:14Z")
> [@Arkcon](#):
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> In the Japanese movie,\* A Taxing Woman\* (which probably has a different title in Japanese, less cute – it is about government officials trying to track down taxation scofflaws), after sex, a woman walks away from bed, first stuffing some Kleenex between her thighs, and you see her bare ass naked from behind, with a bit of white tissue paper held there. I suppose that’s kinda real, but really, its just to comply with typical Japanese media standards: any topic goes, but don’t show pubes.
I remember when that movie came out, but I don’t think I saw it. But I remember this scene. If it’s a Japanese meme, would it have been in another movie?
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### Author:  [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/69 "2015-02-12T00:36:22Z")
God help me for remembering this, but I remember that mainstream romcom _About Last Night_ (adapted from the play _Sexual Perversity in Chicago_ by David Mamet) includes a line where Elizabeth Perkins’s character is boasting to her BFF (Demi Moore) about a new boyfriend, and after listing his good qualities she finishes with a triumphant, “_And_ he doesn’t make me sleep in the wet spot!”
And that’s my fascinating contribution to this thread. This was back in the late 1980s, IIRC.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-clean-up-after-sex-in-the-movies/711603/70 "2015-02-12T08:25:14Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> Doesn’t Nicole Kidman pee ON Zac Efron in some recent movie? Not sure about the sound effects.
_The Paperboy_
NSFW
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldlzi5LOlRI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldlzi5LOlRI)
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