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

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

In a dog mask.

initially misinterpreted this thread as sex scenes you watched containing your parents and started dry-heaving

spoiler warning, guys

but uhm don't think we actually watched any in my pre-high school days cuz if we were watching a movie and clothes came off my dad would shout "CLOSE YOUR EYES" and periodically interject "keep em closed" while my brother and I snuck peeks.

initially misinterpreted this thread as sex scenes you watched containing your parents and started dry-heaving

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doesn't DJP have an anecdote he once shared?

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My parents were pretty liberal about this stuff so nudity or whatever in movies wasn't a big deal. But we did watch The Man Who Fell to Earth together when I was maybe 14 (sex scene involving a pistol, among other things), and I remember the next day my dad saying something like, "You know, that's not really a normal kind of sex..."

When I was a baby I watched this dude masturbate

I was cool with it & he didn't seem bothered so hey

my parents kind of acted prudish around me watching sex-related stuff - I remember my dad expressing disappointment in me for watching "Sex and the Single Alien" once. They also waited a long time to have the sex talk until I was almost in junior high, by then I'd learned all kinds of wrong info from my best friend such as you impregnate women by sticking your finger in their hoohah and that sperm is an organ in your chest. fortunately our mandated-sex ed class righted those wrongs.

I later learned it was more because my mom was prudish and that my dad was actually a fairly dirty all man all this time...he just waited for me to become an adult to reveal that.

I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't Do That on Television"

Me neither! So completely random in light of the things they apparently had no problem letting me watch.

I saw Boogie Nights with my grandparents. Which was infinitely less uncomfortable than watching Paul Rudd's not-exactly-a-sex-scene mirror bit in Wanderlust with my mom.

i remember seeing My Stepmother Is An Alien with my parents in the theater when I was nine or thereabouts... there's that weird, kind of comical sex scene right at the beginning, I think. i didn't really know what was happening but it was awkward. don't think we discussed it afterwards. what a terrible movie!

x-post - We are not alone in this! I've met several people over the years who weren't allowed to. I mean, they let me watch those horndogs on 3's company reruns but not some teenage yahoos getting slimed? IDGI. I've always thought maybe it was the Barth Burgers (which literally thought until just now when I Googled it was "Barf Burgers") thing. I mean, that was pretty gross but still.

I did not mean to say "I mean" there 2x.

ha, i think i'm always going to feel awkward whenever a sex scene appears with somebody else around. i can't help it, sex was just wasn't mentioned at all in my family and i grew up in a pretty strict catholic family. my wife did too. my wife and i watched "before the devil knows you're dead" the other day and the first scene is PSH fucking marisa tomei and we're both making awkward jokes like "heh heh, you think we rented the wrong movie?" "i didn't know it was going to be THAT kind of film heh heh"

i remember seeing My Stepmother Is An Alien with my parents in the theater when I was nine or thereabouts.

A parent who exposed children or other relatives to this movie deserves life without parole.

haha i think they just knew my brother and i loved ghostbusters. isn't it just a goofy family comedy once the sex scene is out of the way?

a goofy family comedy in which Kim Bainsger's talking, glowing purse has magic powers

I went through a phase of making my dad take us to '40s films noir at the U of M film society when I was 12. Old movies subject to the MPPC saved me from many potential parental embarrassments.

xp she's from space! anything goes, alfred.

For instance, I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't Do That on Television" or MTV because they were "gross".

Me neither, but in our case, it was because the kids were too mouthy/"bad" and I think we weren't supposed to get any ideas.

I watched Pretty Woman with my mom once and she made me close my eyes during the oral on grand piano scene--I was maybe in high school or college? I think she told me I would understand once I got married.

weird, I have zero memory of this Ghostbusters sex scene and I must've seen that movie a million times.

i don't think i remembered it either until re-watching recently. it seems like it is flown in from another movie altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wE6j_0Bc8

Went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom! I'm 39, but still, it got so bad I left the theater to make a phone call!

Dad took my sister and I to see Basic Instinct. We almost left like 3 separate times but ended up sticking it out.

*me not I

My dad rented Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex and inexplicably decided it'd be great for a Fun Family Movie Night -- I think I was 12 or 13. I can't remember which scene it was that caused my parents to leave the room in disgust (although they'd found it funny up to this point), but I'm pretty sure it was when the giant boob made its first appearance.

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.