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

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.

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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

Ever since I was a kid, when I watched a movie with my mom that included a couple showering, she would say things like, "That doesn't really work. Looks fun, but it's not."

I remember an SNL skit where Phil Hartman played Frank Sinatra reading Madonna's "Sex" book for a book-on-tape, and he just kept saying "I like my vagina" over and over again and the channel was changed.

oh man that Hartman/"Sex" sketch is a good one

One thing I find kind of amusing in light of my Fatal Attraction memory is that it was hardly the first time I'd seen sex, or at least nudity, on screen. We were always watching stuff like the Vacation films and A Fish Called Wanda. It's fuzzy, but I even sorta remember watching one of the Porky's films with my parents. I suppose there might have been an presumption of "most the dirty stuff will go right over the kids' heads" at work here, but I also wonder if there isn't a belief that comedy makes things more palatable. I dunno.

Related anecdote: I once got in trouble for calling my sister a "slut." I didn't know what the word meant, but I'd heard it on The Golden Girls and it sounded funny. It didn't help that I did this in front of company.

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

went to see airplane at the cinema with my mum, and the plastic automatic pilot blowjob scene was much more awkward viewing than a brief glimpse of boobies

i've told this story before but when i was eight my family took me to see 'ghost,' which i found completely bewildering and impossible to understand because a) my mom covered my eyes during all the 'important' scenes and b) i'd thought we were going to see 'ghost dad' and kept wondering when bill cosby was going to show up.

hahahaha

My younger sister and I watched an episode of "Wiseguy" in which Steven Bauer and Martika have sex, and Mom, annoyed, says, "What a bad actress. She can't even fake it well."

zero recollection of doing this but i yelled "they're naked!" in a movie theater during an r rated viewing of Excalibur. apparently to great enjoyment of the audience.

oh yeah! Our 10th grade English teacher, a Marist brother, showed us Excalibur but forgot to fast forward through Arthur's dad's fuck session in armor.

My parents never watched movies, something that was inexplicable to them as it was to me, so there never were any uncomfortable film situations. But there was one time involving "Weekend," the NBC news program with Lloyd Dobbins (and later Linda Ellerbee). There was an extremely intense segment once about incest and child sexual abuse, and my mother jumped up and changed the channel when a young woman recalling her childhood said "...and then he started masturbating himself on me..." I guess I would have been 11 or so?

My French girlfriend at the time and I took my dad and his then girlfriend to see Marquis. I think my dad's gf weas a little unsettled by the experience.

me too

I don't remember inviting you

he sat behind you guys making moaning sounds

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?

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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.