All of which equally applies to any actors distressed by gay scenes. If ever something needed to get less explicit, it was the straight sex scene. On a serious level, the straight sex scene became problematic, toxified: too many stories of traumatised actors, particularly women, feeling pressured into providing mainstream porn jollies. There could be an element of straight sex fatigue to this. These days, gay sex scenes are everywhere: It’s a Sin Hollywood Euphoria Feel Good Dickinson the recent Harry Styles vehicle, My Policeman, to name but a few. Queer As Folk, for one, was broadcast back in 1999, with Tipping the Velvet appearing a few years later. It makes you think: even today, is on-screen gay sex perceived as ruder, dirtier – more taboo? Is it the only kind of televised sex that has any hope of shocking audiences these days? Certainly, Netflix’s lusty film of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, released around the same time as the White Lotus episode, didn’t garner the same level of reaction, despite all the heavy breathing in the bracken. Still, when was the last time a straight sex scene became a talking point? Perhaps the Regency-cunnilingus in Bridgerton, but that was clothed, suggestive, mainly played for laughs.
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