sex scenes you watched with your parents and how did you deal with that

an important part of cinema, growing up

haha, the godfather part i cene when scene when sonny fucks lucy in some bedroom during his sister's wedding. i was probably 14. my mom suddenly said "this is rated r, i don't think you should be watching this" and i had to go in the other room while everyone else watched the movie

watched the entirety of 9 1/2 weeks with my father and after a certain point we basically just started studiously ignoring each other

also watched Body Heat together

basically one of my dad's favorite things was introducing his sons to cinematic sex

the red violin

it was shortly after I'd been in college and I'd played the violin throughout high school and I think I made some comment about how it'd take a lot of concentration to get the bowing right

Watched The Wicker Man with my parents, aged about 16, and have had to deal with my father making random, inappropriate "And what does the MAYPOLE symbolise!?" jokes for the rest of my fucking life.

i'm sure there are more but i vividly remember Doc Hollywood boobs in the theater with my dad

(It didn't help that my Mum's church used to regularly do a Maypole festival every year while I was growing up.)

the scene in Airplane! when the naked female passenger runs across the screen - v. uncomfortable

Saw American Beauty and Enemy at the Gates with my parents in the theater. The former features an extended topless scene with Mena Suvari (but not an actual sex scene as far as I remember) and the latter has an actual sex scene, and it's super awkward too. We dealt with it the way we do with anything we'd rather not talk about, by suppressing it and not talking about it afterwards.

excellent thread idea

I was a commune kid, my mom took us to see Kentucky Fried Movie in the 70's, I couldn't have been more than 13. the ticket taker looked at her skeptically and said "you know this move is rated R, right"? she never said anything afterwards (note: there is an extended and bad sex scene) but I think she might have regretted it. we had no shame anyway, Joy Of Sex lying around the house and all that.

other memorable "whoa" moments include Excalibur, Body heat, and the Heavy Metal Movie (my stepfather: "those women weren't very realistic")

terminator!!

i dealt with it by becoming a deer in linda hamilton's headlights

and we never spoke of it

Revenge of the Nerds with my older sister and my Mom. I was 12.

I can't even remember what movie it was, but I remember burying my face in the couch.

~~freudian~~

My parents made me leave Teen Wolfe when the girls were wrestling in shaving cream. :(

Too many to mention as an adult but my MO is that when I sense a sexy scene coming up I use it as an opportune time to use the bathroom or go make a drink.

Things that I thought my dad would find funny and started to watch with him but soon remembered how filthy they were and had to switch them off include Superbad and Eastdown and Down.

we got a VHS in the early 80s and Saturday night was usually random inappropriate video that my dad thought looked good night. i got a lot of practice in at staring fixedly at the screen and everybody ignoring each other. occasionally the film would get stopped, usually for excessive swears or violence tbh, but mostly we just got on with it.

i remember a great blaxploitation prison boxing movie called Penitentiary that had some pretty explicit conjugal visit scenes, but i must have watched a ton of X rated stuff, especially before the British Board of Film Censors started cutting videos. uncomfortable silences broken by the occasional wisecrack from my dad was the norm tbh

Movies that You Feel Uncomfortable Watching with Your Parents...

xxpost - lol wolf not wolfe

killer nun was just played on repeat with the curtains closed while mum got drunk

my dad claims that he took his mom to see Psycho at the cinema

I can't even remember what movie it was, but I remember burying my face in the couch.

― how's life, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

I mean, I've watched Bad Santa with my dad so I don't really know why those other things seemed worse but they did somehow.

recently i saw the black book with my parents because they'd just been to amsterdam and i had kinda forgotten how many long, lingering shots of naked breasts there were

I remember getting very confused when my dad discovered the dubbed tape of Porky's I'd been watching incessantly and how he lectured me about how terrible it was about women and sex; I think he was more offended that they weren't taking sex seriously than anything else.

Bull Durham: everybody in my family loved this movie and i know we watched it a bunch. i'm pretty sure everyone just tried to be cool about it. my folks weren't strict or anything. and it is funny and 'literary' so it met their standard for snobby entertainment. i know later there was a story about a friend of theirs who wanted to watch it with her own (elderly) parents because in her memory it was just a great funny baseball movie and all the stuff about susan sarandon in a garter belt or kevin costner waxing on about cocks and pussies had left her brain totally. until...

The Big Easy: i'm pretty sure i watched this with my parents and a whole other family? maybe just my mom, and another married couple, who would get together for movie nights every now and again. again i think everybody just tried to be cool, i think i must have been an older teenager, maybe even 'of age' if this matters at all (for the purposes of discomfort it really doesn't fyi). luckily ellen barkin does keep her clothes on.

Double Impact*: i don't remember which "JCVD" movie it was exactly, but after my folks split up my mom and i watched a bunch of them. i was a martial arts nerd and thought she was indulging me and i didn't really get what her angle was until reflecting on it much later. anyway i think it's double impact which has a really gratuitous slomo sex scene with bad music, basically the worst possible. i think my mom just said something like "well!" after it.

Dona Flor and her Two Husbands: this happened when i was a kid, i wasn't actually watching it, but wandered in when my parents were. the lines of dialogue i heard were: "how is she?" "who?" "your pussy!" and my dad leapt off the couch to stop the VCR. i've never seen this movie.

A History of Violence and Eastern Promises: my mom loves these movies. we watched them both in a row last christmas. really wasn't a big deal. maria bello in cheerleader gear, viggo knifing a dude with his dong out, all totally natural.

c. 13 years old cape fear cheek bite rape with high school friend's mum

lol I showed Bad Santa to my parents, too

maria bello in cheerleader gear, viggo knifing a dude with his dong out, all totally natural.

as one does

oh god i forgot i made my dad take me to see Kids in the theater. big mistake in about fifty ways, at the time or ever

oof

watched 'do the right thing' with my mom

yeah that got pretty ugly afterwards, shit

xp

my dad claims that he took his mom to see Psycho at the cinema

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 19, 2014

my dad & mom did this! my mom said she hid her face in her hands the whole time

I saw Coming to America with my parents, with the famous opening hottub scene. I think I was slightly pre-adolescent at the time.

when I saw ghostbusters at age 9 and there's that scene where akroyd dreams about the sexy chick ghost giving him a spectral blowjob and his eyes cross, I had no idea what the hell was going on (haha how embarrassing she's pulling his pants off) but I remember my dad saying "uh oh!" and looking like he'd made a huge mistake showing us the movie.

I saw JFK with my parents and there wasn't any "sex" beyond Costner and spacek having a go at it after RFK got shot but that scene where tommy lee jones, pesci, and k-bacon are hanging out in powdered wigs (actually TLJ was covered head to toe in gold paint) smacking the hell out of each other and pesci shouting at TLJ "you're mine Mary!" or whatever was pretty awkward to watch.

teenaged me and my parents in a hotel room, watching the Accused.

Purple Rain w/ Dad

Heh. We were watching Ghostbusters with my kid the other night and I naturally averted my eyes at the dream sequence.

I remember going to see both Kramer vs. Kramer and The Shining in theaters with my parents, at age 10 and 11 respectively, and both featured full-frontal female nudity, which I don't think they expected. They were pretty sanguine about it, though.

Both my parents were pretty cool about that kind of thing, looking back. Heck, my mother took me to see Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip when I was 13. Frankly, by then, my parents were divorced, my mother was working nights and my sister and I consumed much worse fare on cable pretty much all the time.

i watched Top Gun at a friend's house in grade school. when the big "take my breath away" business happened my friend was covering up his face but still watching through his fingers and giggling like an idiot, and his mom (who was otherwise ignoring us) suddenly was coming into the room saying "i don't know about this, boys" but didn't make us fwd it or anything. i thought their reaction was way weirder than what was happening onscreen. i'm pretty sure i'd seen it already, and i know my friend had, he had the damn tape. i got the feeling they did this everytime he watched it. they were pretty religious.

Excalibur and Conan the Barbarian (where Conan sleeps w a witch who tries to kill him and flies away in ghost form).

i watched the hell out of both of those as a kid but my parents weren't into movies with swords

except the branagh henry v. unless brian blessed has his ass out i think that's pretty vanilla.

National Lampoon's European Vacation was my favorite movie when I was a kid and it's filled with sex jokes but I think that I mostly watched it alone or pretended just not to get them. Also, boobs.

I think my parents cared less about things like boobs and references to sex then they did about some other things. For instance, I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't Do That on Television" or MTV because they were "gross".

I think they were just inconsistent in the strictness.

Never stupid enough to watch more-than-PG films with my parents, but I do have: one of Gilda Radner's SNL characters talking about 'penis envy' when I was 11 and watching it with my dad; was genuinely worried he didn't know what penis envy was (and embarrassed). Also VERY QUICK FAST-FORWARD of Darling Nikki on Purple Rain cassette in grandfather's car.

I nagged my mom into letting me watch Fatal Attraction (which my parents had already seen in theatres), which she finally agreed on with the condition that she watch it with me and that we discuss it afterwards. I suppose this is a fair practice, but when your first Talk About Sex is the result of having just watched Michael Douglas and Glenn Close fuck on a kitchen counter ("you know, that's not how people really have sex" is a phrase forever burned into my memory), it kind of puts most other awkwardnesses that one will encounter in their lives into some perspective.

lol dying

yeah your mom burned you pretty good there

oh god i forgot i made my dad take me to see Kids in the theater. big mistake in about fifty ways, at the time or ever

― goole, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:16 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good lord this is the most terrifying story itt. I saw Kids with my girlfriend and it ruined our day.

think I'm the third poster to reveal they saw Boogie Nights with a parent, which is totally bizarre, it's not like I didn't know what it was about.

Only two VCR movies I recall Dad turning off, when watched as a family:

Coal Miner's Daughter: wedding night scene (painful struggle under the covers) and Pixote (boy gang-raped). Very different scenes of course, but both involve what could be described as the rape of a child (Loretta Lynn was meant to be 13). Don't remember my respective age(s), but younger than 10.

Otherwise parents were pretty liberal re sex and nudity; as I recall the prudishness was on my part, not theirs. (Dimly recall a brief stage when my brother and I would make a point of going "ew" and covering our eyes whenever there was a "kissy" scene.)

Some freudian embarrassment I guess, which persists to this day. Like milo above, watched Black Swan with the parents, thirtysomething, and think I was much more uncomfortable than them (not just lesbian sex scene, but scene of masturbation in bed then discovering mother is in the room).

Pixote is brutal at any age.

so this probably doesn't exactly count, but as a kid I went to see Clash of the Titans in the theater and was keen to note some brief moments of naked boobs and butts despite my mom trying in vain to cover my eyes.

Not long after, I found myself watching Clash of the Titans on tv with one of my friends and my parents. I had surreptitiously let my friend know to be on the lookout for this exciting moment of boobs. Of course, this was broadcast tv, so no such boobs materialized. But at the precise moment of non-boob revelation, my friend turned to me and my parents and angrily decried "NUH UH!". I was properly mortified.

the worst one for me was when the teacher says "her pussy gets so wet" about reese witherspoon in election...my mom walked out of the room and didn't return.

^ i was with sister and parents in cinema for that as well

Biloxi Blues, where Matthew Broderick's character loses his virginity to a prostitute. I was, I think, in high school and watched this with my mum on TV...it was a lighthearted sex scene in what was (iirc) a comedy, but still probably the most SEX SCENE-ish scene I'd ever watched with my parents and yep, super awkward.

titanic is the first one i can remember, although ultimately my dad just got mad about the historical inaccuracies

I also saw Election with my mom. The "her pussy gets so wet" line really wasn't that big of a deal to either of us, but the way it is presented in the film certainly intensifies the shock of the moment. Like, we open with 10 or so minutes of really sunny high school comedy stuff, and then BAM!

titanic is the first one i can remember, although ultimately my dad just got mad about the historical inaccuracies

― cucked by steely dan (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 9:30 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"kate winslet's breasts were not that big!"

I remember my dad literally covering my eyes in the theater during Fright Night.

My best friend and I joined his parents to see "Alien" on opening night. We were kids but we ate it up. His parents were mortified. It was rated "R"! What did they expect?

Great thread btw.

Not sex scenes, but even more mortifying: best friend and I chose to rent Cocoon to watch with her parents, forgetting that her mum's father was dying of terminal cancer at the time.

the worst one for me was when the teacher says "her pussy gets so wet" about reese witherspoon in election...my mom walked out of the room and didn't return.

― slam dunk, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 8:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Man I thought you were watching this w/ your teacher annd your mom

DJP needs to retell the story about listening to his parents sexing.

I get surprised at all these stories. I honestly can't remember a sex scene being awkward, it was just something that was in films. We also had posters of naked people hanging in the house, and everyone walked around naked.

There was a sligthly awkward incident recently, where I watched Bridesmaids with my mom. In that scene where the mom complains about having three teenage boys, and how there's semen everywhere in their rooms, my mom laughed way too hard and exclaimed: 'Oh, this is genious!' I stayed quite quiet...

I get more awkward about watching sex scenes now, in my appartment, where the neighbours can hear them (watched A Bigger Splash, recently, for work, which all of a sudden has a very graphic and quite loud gay sex scene. I turned the sound down pretty quickly. It was after midnight, on a workday) With my parents seems like much more of a safe space.

my mum showed me Braindead when I was a teenager and we both howled our way through the zombie sex scene

DJP needs to retell the story about listening to his parents sexing.

jjj could probably tell it too, I think he also experienced this

Y Tu Mama Tambien on Christmas eve is the main one that comes to mind. As I recall, everyone pretended it was no big deal.

Watching the Diaz/Segel movie Sex Tape on a plane, with strangers on both sides, was also in many ways a poor decision.

he listened to your parents sexing?

xpost

I too saw "Clash of the Titans" in the theatre as a kid; my mother took me and my friend. When the breasts appeared, my mother laughed and taught us the word "gratuitous".

xpost: my parents' love was not constrained by pedestrian events like "son having a sleepover"

My parents took us to see "Godfather" at the drive-in when I was five. After that, I don't remember. Tbh my mom was more disturbed by violence. But my grandma walked in on my brother and I watching soft porn on Cinemax, but she wasn't shocked or angry. We just acted like we stumbled on it by accident.

We grew up near a notorious red light district, so you could find hardcore porn magazines in the alley or woods. Best to take a more liberal parenting approach when that's what your kids are growing up with.

My dad made me look away during the innocuous non-nudity in Christmas Vacation.

Then yelled at me for catching me watching Sex and the Single Alien.

And then I got my own VCR and TV so I could watch smut in private, taped Real Sex 18, then mistook said tape for an extra credit video for history and gave it to my teacher.

Hell they even flipped out at the pool scene in Death Becomes Her. I always was more embarrassed by their overreaction than anything.

Omg it's butts

God, when I rented Shame I was waiting for my dad to finish with TV so I could watch it, but he kept sitting there saying "putting on your movie." I waited until like 12:30 in the morning for him to go to sleep so I could start it.

"put on your movie" that is, the implication being he'd watch it too,

that is one big dick in that movie iirc

also one big dick of a movie

http://www.tr10023.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Dances-with-Wolves.jpg

God, when I rented Shame

I feel such sadness that 99.4% of the time ppl are not meaning the Bergman film when they say this

would make for a hell of a childhood,

i mean rowr ullman, amirite?

Only Morbs deigns to humblebrag his film knowledge amidst a cacophony of shamefully awkward erect penii.

the bergman film isn't very good either!

/insert nasty comment from morbs here/

haha this thread is gold.

it's like that special episode of Full House where Uncle Jesse got stabbed by Brian Wilson

When I was in high school id watch videos at my friend Jim's house. His father would often join us however if a non-PG rated scene of a sexual nature came on, his father would leap out of his chair, make a beeline to the kitchen calling out to us: 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox? Anyone??'
To this day when I get the vibe that someone is trying to make a move, I can't help but think to myself 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox?'

the bergman film isn't very good either!

Obviously it can't match the exquisite perfection of Back to the Future, but it's still an amazing movie

Didn't watch it with my father but many years ago I lent him my copy of Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (can't recall for the life of me how that came about or what possessed me to do this). When I asked him what he thought of it he just said it was "good".

"good egg"

I watched Leaving Las Vegas with my mom when I was a teenager. I’ve never recovered and it’s never been discussed.

I share the sentiment that I’m way more of a prude than my parents.

To this day when I get the vibe that someone is trying to make a move, I can't help but think to myself 'Coffee? Tea? Bonox?'

lol

had to google bonox. what the fuck.

i missed one: i got taken to see Black Robe in the theater, so i would have been in 8th or 9th grade. there's some doggystyle in a teepee iirc. the theater was pretty crowded; p sure there was some uncomfortable coughing.

i was more freaked out by the guy getting his finger cut off with a broken oyster shell.

terrific movie btw, a fave of the whole family.