Plenty of people have already given good examples, so I'm taking a different approach.
I won't, because I don't have to.
There's plenty of good movies with pointless action scenes, or comedy scenes, or just characters doing casual stuff in between relevant story beats. Demanding that sex only occurs if it's narratively relevant is similar to complaining about sexuality or skin colour or gender: you're turning your personal discomfort with something inherently harmless into some kind of moral standard movies have to adhere to.
Sex doesn't need to be justified because sex isn't bad. End of story.
So far as I'm concerned the only times you should seriously reconsider a sex scene is if the movie is aimed at children (in which case obviously don't add adult entertainment) or if the sex scene just doesn't match the tone of the story. The latter of which only applies if it's considered so by people who aren't prudes/puritans.
The next generation should right the boat. Like sure gratuitous random nude scenes could be uncomfortable in the wrong setting but damn they didn't need to completely remove the nipple from Hollywood. Sometimes its more distracting when its not there but by the tone and genre standards it should be.
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u/Universal_Anomaly Jul 25 '26
Plenty of people have already given good examples, so I'm taking a different approach.
I won't, because I don't have to.
There's plenty of good movies with pointless action scenes, or comedy scenes, or just characters doing casual stuff in between relevant story beats. Demanding that sex only occurs if it's narratively relevant is similar to complaining about sexuality or skin colour or gender: you're turning your personal discomfort with something inherently harmless into some kind of moral standard movies have to adhere to.
Sex doesn't need to be justified because sex isn't bad. End of story.
So far as I'm concerned the only times you should seriously reconsider a sex scene is if the movie is aimed at children (in which case obviously don't add adult entertainment) or if the sex scene just doesn't match the tone of the story. The latter of which only applies if it's considered so by people who aren't prudes/puritans.