Hollywood Sex: Difference between revisions

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There are several possible reasons for this:

* [[Right Through His Pants]]

* [[The Immodest Orgasm]] (with [[The Modest Orgasm]] as an inverse)

 

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As Hollywood Sex is so common, please only list glaring examples.

 

* Lou Kagan's ''Perils Of Penelope'' contain many bondage scenes that pay no attention to gravity, skeletal structure, or any such pesky details.

 

* The hilarious [[Two-Person Pool Party]] in ''[[Showgirls]]'' is a particularly famous example.

* ''[[The Room]]'' famously features writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau thrusting enthusiastically somewhere around his partner's navel.

* The same thing happens in the film ''[[Drive Angry]]''. Though it is implied that Milton's partner is psychologically scarred by the experience.

* Basically, all commercial pornography. This makes sense if you think about it: in real sex, the purpose is the participants' pleasure; in porn, it's for the viewer's pleasure. Unfortunately, it's also many people's first exposure to "real life" sex, which can lead to those people thinking [[Reality Is Unrealistic]].

** Especially bad in homemade and amateur porn. Leave it to the pros, folks!

*** Conversely, amateur/homemade porn also often totally disregard the presence of the camera(s) or eventual viewers, averting this trope entirely.

* The infamous tent scene in ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''. Not only did the scene have no natural build-up whatsoever, but anyone who has had anal sex knows you can't just spit on yourself and plow away. Just passionate dry-humping with the amount of preparation would have realistically ended in pain.

* In ''[[The Island]]'', [[Ewan McGregor|Lincoln]] and [[Scarlett Johansson|Jordan]] are clones who have been raised separate from normal people, and have no concept of love or sex. Doesn't stop them from having passionate sex near the end of the movie without any problems. Though a major plot point is that Lincoln has been receiving memories from his original donor, so it ''might'' be handwaved in his case at least.

* During the [[Wall-Bang Her]] sex-scene in ''[[Road House]]'', the relative positions of both Patrick Swayze's and Kelly Lynch's bodies either means either Swayze's wing-wang is two-and-a-half feet long, or else they were dry humping. Still a hot scene, mind, but physically impossible.

 

* Any of Samantha's sex scenes in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' count, though injuries are frequently shown in this instance. There's still a ludicrous amount of screaming, thrashing and athleticism.

** There was once an episode where she was bent on performing the ''entire'' book of Kama Sutra. (Which, for the record, [http://www.cracked.com/article_18450_7-kama-sutra-sex-tips-that-will-put-you-in-hospital.html is a horrible idea.])

Aversions or subversions where in one or more respect, the sex is presented more realistically than typical Hollywood Sex.

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGvESR4erc This] ad for a dating site called Zoosk.com includes an [[Imagine Spot]] of two people trying to have Hollywood Sex. They fail miserably.

 

* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'', which seems to have "[[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstruct]] Hollywood Sex" as one of its goals, does indeed manage to be more realistic in its portrayal of sex—particularly the young, awkward-first-time sex only virgin newlyweds can manage.

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Tamahome and Miaka decide to consummate their relationship knowing that this could very well be their last day together. [[Big Eater|Miaka's]] stomach grumbles, and they are both embarrassed by this awkward noise. (So much so that Tamahome can't continue!)

* In ''Kimi wa Pet'', one of Sumire and Hasumi's aborted attempts to finally have sex after months of being a couple goes disastrously wrong when Sumire gets a leg cramp and then Hasumi loses his composure and sustains a head wound from falling into some furniture. Furthermore, because Hasumi or other partners urge her for verbal feedback during sex, Sumire admits she doesn't always enjoy it and fakes climax on at least one occasion. One night much later Hasumi has some problems keeping it up. Although he claims it's due to drinking too much alcohol, {{spoiler|their relationship already seems to be falling apart and it really foreshadows their break-up.}}

* ''[[B Gata H Kei]]'' portrays not only the (almost) sex itself as awkward and difficult, but the relationship leading up to it, too.

* The French comic ''[[Dreamland]]'' mostly averts this when the protagonist and his girlfriend have their first time. While it "ends well" for both of them, the beginning is quite awkward, with Terrence putting his condom the wrong way at first for example.

 

=== Comic Books ===

* Roberta Gregory averts this in her comics ''[[Naughty Bits]]'' and ''[[Artistic Licentiousness]]''. She's great at depicting sex in all its awkward, sometimes unpleasant glory.

 

=== Film ===

* In ''[[Friends with Benefits (film)|Friends With Benefits]]'', Dylan and Jamie have pretty realistic sex, with stuff such as them listing their weird quirks about sex, Dylan needing to pee halfway through, him wondering why she's screaming, etc.

 

* In the [[Ben Elton]] book ''This Other Eden'', the Hollywood star Max and his actress wife agree to have one last roll in the hay before their divorce. The narration specifically compares their perfect movie sex scenes with their real sex, complete with fanny farts and awkward elbows.

* [[John Green]]'s book [[Looking for Alaska]] has a girl performing oral on the main character. They exchange some awkward dialogue ("should I bite it?") then go to their more experienced friend to explain it to them.

* Played with in the ''[[Slave World]]'' novels: Many [[Hollywood Masochism]] stereotypes are lampshaded and justified with [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. In the first few books, this include the stereotype that all real submissives enjoy everything in the kinky spectrum. This is backpedaled in the later books, where it's established that most people have some things they just can't handle, much less enjoy, no matter how many [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul|smilies you paint on their soul]].

* ''Anatomy of a Boyfriend'' by Daria Snadowsky is fairly realistic. It discusses the teenage characters first times, fooling around (and trying to clean it up), and the funny noises they would make.

 

* ''[[Mad TV]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4QbzM3wu1w this sketch] on sex faces.

* Sex in ''[[The Sopranos]]'' is pretty realistic.

* As well as showing quite a considerable amount of Hollywood Sex between the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Lizzie Siddal and various prostitutes, [[Desperate Romantics]] does at least depict Lizzie encouraging Gabriel to abandon the prophylactics they have apparently been using prior to their marriage. There is also some awkwardness shown between Millais and Effie the first time they're in bed together, though they get over it later in the series.

* The ''[[John Adams (TV series)|John Adams]]'' miniseries averted this every which way with John and Abigail's bout of reunion sex in France; it's fast, clumsy, and a little bit sweaty. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|And still leaves viewers gazing dewy-eyed at the screen from the palpable emotions surging between them.]]

 

* The [[Flight of the Conchords]] song "Business Time" is a pretty hilarious aversion of this.

** Likewise "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8tPTVBRSc Ooh Girl - An Honest R&B Song]" by Mike Polk of Runawaybox.

 

** "Well thanks for the wedgie, Romeo..."

* Australian comedian Josh Thomas notes that for him, sex never involved [[The Immodest Orgasm|loud moaning and thrashing]], but more often, "Mm... mm... oh, gosh... mm... OH SHIT are you alright?! ... and then it takes you a while to get back into the rhythm..."

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

** The necessity of foreplay is frequently mentioned and seen to, especially with anal sex.

** One scene has the mother giving some (factually correct) contraceptive advice to her daughter.

** The "a virgin always bleeds" myth is averted at least once, when the protagonist takes his time getting the girl turned on first and then penetrates so gently it doesn't even hurt. Both of them were still expecting the myth so much [[Lampshade Hanging|they're both a little confused when it doesn't happen.]]

 

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* Averted in ''[[Tales of MU]]''. Mack has no clue what she's doing during her first several encounters, and as such, it's not terribly enjoyable.

 

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