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Thank you for the lovely article. I think a lot of film and TVs violence is gratuitously portrait and rarely actually moves the plot beyond the violent outcome. Sex scenes that are well shot, consensual and overseen by a intimacy coordinator are way more potent ways to tell us about the characters.

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Absolutely agree! Living in a world where sex is more controversial than violence is a tragedy.

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Coming across this article a little after the fact but I just wanted to say when I read "Weeds + spanking" I knew EXACTLY what scene you were talking about even. Nancy Botwin, you will always be famous.

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thank you for writing this ❤️ it really needed to be said, and most of those examples were super formative for me too! you're an incredible writer and I hope this message in defence of sex scenes gets around because I just don't want to live in a world without them 😂

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Thank you so much for commenting! Looks like showtime & HBO shaped us all :)

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it definitely did ❤️

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