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AIBU to ask what you think is the greatest movie/tv sex scene ever?

324 replies

Diel · 09/06/2019 12:18

Been chatting to some friends about this and we came up with ones from Fatal Attraction (sink scene), Brokeback Mountain, GoT (all of them Smile) and Pretty Little Liars amongst others. What was interesting was how some favourites did nothing for others. And some were unanimously agreed to be hot as hell.

Which ones do it for you?

OP posts:
gowgow · 10/06/2019 19:20

I think the greatest sex scene is in "Brief Encounter".

Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard so want to do it ; those looks are incredible - far more explicit than actually getting down to it. Sadly, they don't.

TickyTacky · 10/06/2019 19:22

Poldark, so much Poldark. Their first scene, when he's unfastening her dress, also when he puts stockings on her.
Richard Madden as Mellors in Lady Chatterley as well.

Paddy1234 · 10/06/2019 19:27

Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks

VerbenaGirl · 10/06/2019 19:27

Twilight... Breaking Dawn for me. Sad, I know!

SockQueen · 10/06/2019 19:30

Almasy and Katharine, the English Patient. Regretted watching that one with my Grandma! Blush

Also agree with pp that Aragorn and the doors (Helm's Deep?) was an abiding image in my teenage awakening.

EllebellyBeeblebrox · 10/06/2019 19:30

Monsters Ball for me, thought it looked really real and hot as hell. Also liked the trippy sex scene in Spun with Jason schwartzman

LadyRannaldini · 10/06/2019 19:36

How hot was Patrick Swayze....I always thought the original sex scene was hot....blooming heck

Was he ever! Road House was a rotten film but the sex scene in his room was beyond amazing, such strength to carry her around like that!

IntoValhalla · 10/06/2019 19:39

I’m watching the new season of Big Little Lies and it’s reminded me:
Forgetting the fact that he evolves into an evermore abusive animal with every episode of season 1 that passed....the scene between Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård where he sacked off his tennis game and they had a really hot quickie on the kitchen worktop!
Phew....

shartsi · 10/06/2019 19:45

There is a fingering scene in Outlander as well. The night before Jamie's first attempt to send Claire back.

LadyRannaldini · 10/06/2019 19:47

Most sex scenes are as sexy as the cardboard tray in Bounty bars to be fair

Now a Cadbury's Flake or, for those of us with long memories, the faithful Mars bar......................

Dra1972 · 10/06/2019 19:54

I agree with monsters ball post. Jeez I'd be sore for weeks.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 10/06/2019 20:02

“ it was Sea of Love I bet. Al Pacino has frisked Ellen looking for a weapon and she turned the tables on him, flung him against the wall and ran her hands up and down "what you looking for".

Yes! That’s it!

StarB3 · 10/06/2019 20:21

Brad Pitt and Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise

6060rachel · 10/06/2019 20:26

I so agree with this! Love this film. Sometimes it's a lot more powerful when they actually DON'T do it!

Devilinatwinset · 10/06/2019 20:27

I love the scene in handmaid's tale between offred and nick when she goes up to his room.
A lot of people say the scene between halle berry and billy bob Thornton in monster's ball because it's convincing.
I think one of the most erotic scenes in a movie is in cool hand luke when the prisoners are working on the road in the sweltering heat and the woman is washing her car, all soapy boobed

shoesarefab · 10/06/2019 20:41

the English Patient, where she comes to his rooms and hits him and he falls at her feet and rips her dress off. There’s a few scenes in that film that are great, such repressed passion letting rip !

Also, it’s not actually a sex scene, but in Girls, when Marnie first meets Booth Jonathan and he turns round to her and says “I want you to know, that the first time I fuck you, I might scare you a little, because I’m a man, and I know how to do things” she promptly takes herself off to the toilets to masturbate. That line he says just does something to me!

MumKnowsAll · 10/06/2019 20:44

Definitely the scene from American Psycho Grin what a man!

Elderflower14 · 10/06/2019 21:53

Halle Berry and BBT in Monsters Ball.... So erotic.

Elderflower14 · 10/06/2019 21:55

Sean Bean and Joely Richardson in Lady Chatterley..

PapayaCoconut · 10/06/2019 22:00

Top Gun. It's so sweet and innocent. I grew up thinking sex was two people, one on top of the other, kissing and cuddling. With romantic music playing and the sun going down outside. I wish my DD could grow up thinking that too, but I guess those days are gone.

NameWithChange · 10/06/2019 22:04

Prince. Purple Rain.

Skade · 10/06/2019 22:05

Pretty much every sex scene in Lady Chatterley’s Lover with Sean Bean and Joely Richardson - just watched some of them again on YouTube and they’ve stood the test of time!

NameWithChange · 10/06/2019 22:06

... and how did I not ever know about that Dirty Dancing scene ?!😲

Skade · 10/06/2019 22:06

Ahh Elderflower14, we’re on the same page! Grin

happygemini13 · 10/06/2019 22:13

I'm typically not a fan of the movie/tv sex scenes but I find ones written in books really erotic Blush