If the phone rings while you're kissing, do you answer? | IOL

Washington - At the beginning of the 1996 movie The Rock, Nicolas Cage's character takes a well-deserved break from his adventures as an FBI agent to share an intimate moment with his girlfriend - but then his cordless phone starts to ring. Natasha Lyonne's character does it in the last episode of the recent Netflix series Russian Doll.

There are thousands of similar entertainment tropes, and many are eye-roll-worthy cliches, but this one has always felt particularly egregious. Can't the phone wait? When I mentioned this frustration to Robert McKee, the screenwriting guru who wrote the guidebook Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, he pointed out that we don't really want our fiction to exactly mimic reality.

Marty Klein, a sex therapist in Palo Alto, California, says that about half of his patients have been interrupted or distracted during sexual activity by devices of some kind - and half of those instances haven't resumed because of a broken mood or other reason.

Yes. Might be a billion Rand deal.

No , call can wait

What a stupid question.

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