The Mary Sue: Sometimes, it feels like we’re stuck in a sea of endless discourse about sex scenes in media. The debate continues to swirl about the frequency of those scenes in movies and television, the reaction to them across different generations, and whether or not they’re “relevant” to the plot.
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I’m really happy for Olivia Cookie concerning how open she was to speaking about the importance of intimacy coordinators when performing sex scenes. Intimacy coordinators are integral in order to ensure safety, comforatability and personal boundary security between performers. There are so many stories unlike Olivia Cookie’s in which performers either had a subpar intimacy coordinator or none at all, and the effects performing those scenes without an intimacy coordinator present can be uncomfortable at best and traumatic at worst. Of course, a famous story that came immediately to my mind was the situation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Regardless of personal opinion, the situation escalated to an extreme with a lawsuit being filed and miscommunication between the intimacy coordinator and performers seemed to be at the center of it all. Unrelated, I think this article makes an interesting point about how the film landscape has changed in normalizing sex scenes (in adult movies) and though in certain instances intimacy coordinators are finally getting the attention they deserve, this discourse will exist so long as sex scenes in movies do.
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