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You know it when you see it: Here are some movies that got sex scenes right

Good sex scenes are like any other kind of good filmmaking: It comes down to execution with purpose and care, done relative to whatever the function of the scene might be.
It is a happy coincidence that our <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1197964002/what-makes-a-good-sex-scene">"What makes a good sex scene?"</a> episode came out in the same week as <em>Challengers, </em>a film about a romance triangle in the tennis world starring Josh O'Connor, Zendaya and (not pictured) Mike Faist.

What makes a good sex scene? It can be easier spot bad sex, but Aisha Harris, Christina Tucker, Ronald Young, Jr. and I tried to focus on the good this week on Pop Culture Happy(We didn't originally plan for this episode to run the same week as our episode about , which is out in theaters now, but it's a happy coincidence, since that film has gotten a lot of attention — probably too much, relative to its other merits — for the sex scenes involving its three leads. It's .)

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