Why you should watch sex scenes with your children
Who can forget those excruciating childhood moments when an unexpected sex scene would pop up during family TV time and make you want to disappear? I remember dying inside — and that was just Dynasty.
It might surprise you to learn, then, that I have been deliberately subjecting my kids to the same. With my 13-year-old daughter I've been mixing up our sofa time with a bit of Bridgerton and White Lotus (both rated 15, both full of cringe potential and lusty bonking) — and that was after a warm-up of 12-rated films such as Dirty Dancing (remember those silhouetted bodies gyrating?), Titanic (the most famous car sex scene ever) and the AA-rated Blue Lagoon (all those underwater appendages on the loose).
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