How do movies & films determine what to put in their sex scenes?

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On a superficial level, sex sells, but someone is deciding what to put in these scenes. How do they decide?

Has someone gone out and done marketing studies to figure out exactly how much nudity to put in these and what sex acts to show? Is there a sex choreographer for film like they have fight choreographers? Articles like this one make it seem like the director is making a lot of these decisions. I also see that there is an intimacy coordinator but that person doesn't seem to do any directing.

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The screenwriter(s) is the source for the context, but the Director can make changes so that stylistically it fits their vision of how the scene should unfold. In some cases the studio can have input, such as when they want the film to be PG but the scene in question pushes it into a possible R rating. But, for the most part, it's squarely on the shoulders of the screenwriter(s) and Director.




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Yes, it's determined by money. But not the way you think.

The type and amount of nudity and/or sex acts depicted in a movie are largely driven by the MPAA ratings system. If sex acts are too explicit, it will almost certainly give the film a rating of NC-17 (the highest rating available). Most movie directors will do anything they can to avoid this, because an NC-17 rating drastically limits a movie's earnings potential-- parents can't take their kids to see such a movie, and many theaters won't even show it. The highest-grossing R-rated film of all time earned over $1 billion; the highest-grossing NC-17 film earned a comparatively paltry $67 million.

(It's important to note that a movie's MPAA rating is determined by people, and can be (to directors) frustratingly inconsistent. But nudity and/or sex acts will quickly bump up a movie's rating, and therefore limit its earnings potential.)

Of course, directors are not required to submit their movies to the MPAA to be rated. And movie theaters aren't actually required to enforce the ratings that are there. But to make parents happy most theaters will not show movies that haven't been rated, making no rating even worse than a hard one.

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