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Originally Posted by After a brisk nap
On the topic of real vs. simulated sex, I don't think it really matters. Movies are an illusion anyway, it doesn't really matter how the impression is created as long as the actors/body doubles are up for it. I do think that there's an argument for graphic images in order to convey a frank and truthful scene. There's something unbearably coy about the artful camera angles, pans to the fireplace, cross-dissolves and careful bedsheet arrangements that make sure we never see the actors' genitalia.
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There are certainly necessary sex scenes in movies, and maybe one day I'll see a masterpiece with REAL sex in it. When that day comes perhaps I'll sing a different tune.
