Let’s talk about SEX
Two figures make love in the moonlight. She gently moans as her fingers dig into his back and they lock eyes. Eternals’ Gemma Chan and Richard Madden broke a boundary, the long-awaited first sex scene in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a move into a new era of sex, and sexuality, on screen.
Sex has slowly been creeping its way back into the multiplex. Within the all-conquering comic-book movie genre, 2020 had and Steve bathing in post-coital glow, but 2021 had ’s characters proposition one another, Loki talking about his bisexuality, and Harley Quinn setting fire to a room during foreplay with a genocidal – but extremely hot – dictator. Outside of $100m+ studio properties, sex reigned supreme on the festivals circuit. Sundance winner CODA had a Deaf couple who can’t keep their hands off each other. Cannes was won by , which saw Agathe Rouselle get intimate with not one, but two cars. Berlin’s Golden Bear went to , in which a schoolteacher’s amateur porno goes viral. And the Golden Lion at Venice went to , in which a sexually
