Sex in Movies is Changing

It has been nearly a year since I first wrote about HBO hiring Intimacy Coordinators here on Peeperz. I’m happy to report that the niche job market has been booming over the last 365 days and the position is in high demand. That English degree that I have hanging up in my library has never felt more useless to me.

Society has been slowly changing it’s ideas about sex and sexuality and that means that our entertainment is going to change too. We want to watch love stories, but we also want to see the raw and raunchy action that is going to behind closed doors. Most households aren’t gathered around the television after dinner to watch Phoenix Marie’s epic return to porno like my wife and I are, so the sex scenes need to be a bit less gaping butthole in your face. That’s where Intimacy Coordinators come in.

Hollywood wants to cross boundaries, but they want to do it in a safe, sane and consensual way that protects the actors. Everyone should feel safe when they’re at work and being in the movies is no exception.

Sex scenes in movies are now being choreographed, just like a fight scene or a dance number. Hooking up is totally a dance. One person makes a move, then the other person makes a move. There’s some hip touching and some butt grabbing. Tongues, boobs, genitals…and then the camera cuts to another scene and we assume that sex has happened. The Intimacy Coordinators on set are standing by to make sure that everyone’s boundaries are being respected and no one gets themselves into an uncomfortable situation while they’re on set.

I was a bit surprised that wasn’t happening all the time, if I’m being honest. I know that the Me Too movement has brought so many terrible situations to light, but I’m glad that one of the repercussions is that people are now being monitored. You can totally be authentically sexy and acting all at the same time. You don’t need to impulsively push people to the limits of their comfort in order to make a good sex scene in a movie.

I’m not sure that I’d be a very good Intimacy Coordinator, but I wouldn’t mind giving it a shot. Learning about how sex scenes are made would but super fascinating, I think. All the proverbial in’s and out’s and what not.

What do you Peepz think about Intimacy Coordinators being on movie and television sets? Let me know in the comments below or slide into my DMs on twitter.

Source: The Guardian

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