Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America

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Wong won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for this romantic whirlwind, starring Leung and Cheung as two Hong Kong expats living in Buenos Aires.

We are living in puritanical times. If you’ve followed the ongoing debate over sex scenes that’s carried out on social media over the last few years – and if you haven’t, well, congratulations – then you’ll know the one thing that unites progressive-minded zoomers and pearl-clutching conservatives is an aversion to cinematic boning. The argument goes that sex scenes rarely add anything to the plot of a movie, nor develop characters, and exist simply to gratify the perv in the director’s chair and make the prudes in the audience squirm in their chairs. It’s a flawed viewpoint, but in fairness, given Hollywood’s general shift away from showing sexuality on screen, it’s entirely possible that younger folks have simply never seen a good sex scene. Having shared a dark childhood secret – about his kid brother getting murdered by apes – actor-turned-secret paramilitary officer Gary finally seals the deal with teammate Lisa, as the two retire to the boudoir to bump wood in a variety of positions no major studio would dare attempt with two flesh-and-blood humans.

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The second official effort of the Dogme 95 movement, Von Trier’s impish provocation tells the story of a woman named Karen who, eager to escape from her life, falls in with a group of able-bodied adults who pretend to be mentally handicapped in public. The local nuns, convinced that they have been possessed by the devil, are having their demons exorcised by a witch hunter. But when their psychosomatic condition remains unresolved, they promptly descend into an orgiastic fever, some of them using a giant crucifix as a dildo, commencing a sequence that has since become known as the Rape of Christ. Finally, someone in the MCU has sex. Two people, in fact. The remarkably well-preserved centuries-old couple Sersi and Ikaris enjoy a PG tumble in a break from baddy-fighting. A widower (Brando) and a young Parisian woman (Schneider) engage in an anonymous sexual relationship that can’t honestly be called ‘casual’, and soon goes beyond gratification into realms of dominance and obsession.

Eternals, Marvel’s sprawling, cod-philosophical saga of godlike beings protecting Earth from alien beasties. Sébastien Lifshitz’s award-winning film is a portrait of Stéphanie (Michelini), a transgender Frenchwoman somewhat suspended in love between her two roommates: Djamel (Yasmine Belmadi), an Algerian hustler, and Mikhail (Nikitine), a Russian soldier gone AWOL.From the latter cut, naturally, comes the famous lesbian scene, starring PenthousePets Anneka di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner, who engage in a three-minute romp with zero relevance to the plot. Sensual and sensitive, funny and forlorn, Alfonso Cuarón’s break-out follows two exceptionally horny teenage boys (Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, both also breaking out) on a transformative road trip through Mexico with an alluring older woman (Maribel Verdú).

There isn’t any actual sex in Goodbye to Language, but one nudity-filled sequence invites so much audience interaction that people might remember things differently. As actors Chevallier and Bruneau have a conversation in the nude, Godard splits the image apart, assigning each of his 3-D cameras to its own eye. The resulting effect allows viewers to choose their own adventure, closing one eye to see Bruneau’s pubic hair, and another to see Chevallier’s flaccid penis. After some smoldering chemistry and a spot of light plumbing, Corky (Gershon) and Violet (Tilly) fall hard for each other – at least, as hard it’s possible to in a movie where no one seems entirely trustworthy. Before long, they’re naked on Corky’s mattress, out of sight of Violet’s mobster boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano).

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It’s the erotic thriller that spawned countless pale imitators. Starring Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell, a novelist suspected in a string of very sexy murders, and Michael Douglas as the cop desperate to get her in handcuffs… if you know what we mean. Danish provocateur Von Trier explores the increasingly troubled sex life of self-confessed sex addict Joe, played by two different actors at different ages. Von Trier’s epic was so long, he split it into two volumes.