The women helping Hollywood shoot safer sex scenes

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In a post-MeToo era, intimacy coordinators will now be on set for every production featuring nudity.

Filming a kiss in 1926. Things have changed dramatically in the industry but only in recent yearsOne of the turning points happened on the set of HBO series, about the blossoming porn industry in 1970s New York. Emily Meade, who played a sex worker and porn star, spoke to bosses when she found some of her nude scenes overwhelming.

"In theatre, it is a four-week process. In TV and film it has to be much quicker, so you work intensively with the actors before getting to the set," compares Dor.Chelsea Pace works on off-Broadway shows and TV series: 'Intimacy is a storytelling tool, it has to serve the story'Amanda Blumenthal, an LA-based intimacy advisor on Showtime's highly sexualised series The Affair, says the job is"part mediator, part counsellor, part choreographer".

The new SAG-AFTRA guidelines cover the pre-production stage, with the intimacy coordinator meeting one-on-one with performers prior to the rehearsal, and making sure the costume department provides appropriate nudity garments, prosthetics and barriers to cover genitalia, such a silicone padding or hard fabrics.

Now, intimacy coordinators are bringing a new element to the set - desexualised language to interpret the stage directions.groping another character, but the actors are making muscle-level contact," explains Pace. "We are not the sex police. Sometimes directors think we are there to tell them 'no' to a moment of nudity they want to have. That's not what we do," says Pace.Zendaya stars in Euphoria, a hard-hitting teen drama with graphic depictions of sex - and Amanda Blumenthal was hired as its intimacy coordinator

 

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NO ONE LIKES SEX SCENES FOR FUCK SAKE

Firstly no-one needs to be told how to fake sex, and secondly if you’re not comfortable doing the scene why accept the role in the first place.

We all love a pair of celebrity tits

Valeria, thank you for including me in the article. intimacycoordinator intimacydirector TeamIDI_UK

Even more ridiculousness from the woke, feminist, sjw machine. Tackling non problems instead of dealing with the real ones. Its acting, it is safe get over it.

Don't do it if you have concerns about simulated sex. It's hard to fake a sex scene without some form of actual intimate touching. Hands on back, bum etc.. how can you have a man or woman who is not actually in the scene dictating by yelling don't touch her there! It's ridiculous

Just wondering if sex scenes are really needed for the story, most of them do nothing for the story and give you something to skip? But they seem to be put in for no reason for the majority of movies.

Wonder if they look out for the male actors as well. Of course not! They couldn't care less about them. 'They are the problem anyway'. Why not have a gender-diverse team helping Hollywood?

Isn't it acting? Acting sex sounds pretty safe to me? Nudity is part of the job. These people are encouraging the creation of victims.

No need for the sex scenes there are many other ways of reflecting intimacy

NoumadoLouis Safer sex scenes?

What utter rubbish

Not hard is it!

I think generally a good thing but I'm struggling to see how you can successfully communicate the requirements of a passionate sex scene to actors using non sexual sterile language. It would end up looking like Will and Charlotte's attempt from the Inbetweeners.

Great movies don't have sex scenes. Its porn & no wonder misogyny is so prevelant. Can you protect viewers & society from the harm of being forced to watch porn?

And sex scenes are still absolutely necessary because . . . . .? They are just cringey AF. If people want to watch soft porn they can just go online. It's not the 1990s anymore.

Loads of adults getting paid for playing pretend. First world problems. 🤷‍♂️

Sex scenes are never necessary to tell a story. Old films were able to tell stories where intimacy was part of the story without depicting it. It can’t be right for actors to engage in these scenes. Kidding themselves into thinking they can be made “safer”proves the point.

Or Fook off change careers if u don’t like it !!

They can explain this to God. I can’t imagine how disappointed - angry - he is with today’s generation. Hollywood has messed up society beyond belief,but not shocking, considering most there have signed themselves over to evil. It’s sickening. Our poor kids brought up around this

How bout fuck Hollywood Incenart

I grew up in an era where there were NO SEX SCENES in films, they are unnecessary, just the actors in nighties or p.j's. with tousled hair, adult viewers can work out for themselves what went on after the passionate kissing. We should go back to that, it's voyeurism not art.

It's amazing how these snake oil salesmen have been able to perpetuate and monetise their ridiculous woke ideology.

Hahahahaha

Spose they have to be given the easy jobs.

Just what we need, an apple.

Eliminate them

How ironic when Hollywood is a paedo swamp! The danger for the youngsters is off camera. Same for the BBC for that matter!

The new Mary Whitehouse

So just more 'Men bad/Women good' stuff. I mean, women NEVER grope men do they. We're the only perverts.

Safe sex scene?

Voyeurs 😂

People negotiate situations for *themselves* : that's what should be respected - not ' rules ' dictated by others !

Happy to help. No charge.

So she gets paid to watch porn

Sexist

Safer sex scenes. 🤔

Porn needs to be banned until the toilet paper crisis is over. toiletpaper panickbuying toiletpaperpanic

Sex scene

How about none

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