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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema

Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things, which features sex scenes, masturbation and full-frontal nudity. Photograph: Atsushi Nishijima/PR

From 1970s classics such as The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now to 1990s erotic thrillers Basic Instinct and Eyes Wide Shut, cinema history is rife with sexually explicit scenes and full-frontal nudity.

But with superhero movies dominating the box office in recent years, directors fearing accusations of coercion and younger audiences supposedly becoming more prudish, some have lamented the death of the sex scene.

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