Bad sex scenes are definitely memorable but the good ones — or rather the hot ones — are the parts of the movie we never forget. Like any other scene in the movie, a sex scene tells a story and brings us forward in the plot. The best ones also light a fire with the spark between the two and sometimes more actors. These are the moments in the theater where we forget where we are only to find ourselves not a little flushed at the next scene transition.

Here's the thing. People have sex. Movies have sex scenes. Wouldn't it be intriguing if a movie featured two actors having actual, consensual sex, instead of just mimicking sex in a way that looks great onscreen but is almost certainly very, very awkward in real life? Yes, obviously, we're aware that porn exists, but we are not talking about porn here. No, we're talking about actual, mainstream or, at very least, as the level of "mainstream" achieved by arthouse foreign films and indies movies with actual plots that also happen to feature actual humans engaging in actual sex acts.

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Maybe you heard about it on Twitter or saw people posting about it on TikTok, but for whatever reason, you're now frantically logging into your ex's Netflix account to see what the hype's all about. Considering porn can be, well, icky sometimes, movies and T. Tune into these 35 movies with sex scenes so raw, they should not be watched with or beside parental units. Consider that your warning now.