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The sex scene isn't disappearing – it's simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality

  • Written by Maria San Filippo, Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
The sex scene isn't disappearing – it's simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy realityToday's sex scenes are, first and foremost, fun.Lids Bierenday

Writing during what seems – in retrospect – to have been the wildly carefree summer of 2019, Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday lamented that “sex is disappearing from the big screen.”

Fast forward two years, and, improbably enough, it’s conservative...

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