How About Dem Sex Scenes? [NSFW] 

Before you even ask, yes this post was inspired by the show “Power” (which if you aren’t watching, you should. I have told you guys to watch it before right here). Every Sunday when the show airs, the one thing you can count on is that the characters – Ghost and Angela are gonna get it in some way, some how. And if not them, some of the characters will. I mean, thanks to Power we have seen Lala’s boobs and 50Cents’s penis.

Now, seeing as this show is on a premium channel it’s nothing surprising. I am always surprised when people make comments about actors going all out on sex scenes on shows that are on premium channels. Shows on network tv are limited when it comes to sex scenes, all you get are strategically placed body parts, bras always on and sheets always pulled up (see below). Premium channels have a pass and go all out. Think Oz, Spartacus, Rome etc.

Power gets a special mention because I tried racking my brain to think of what shows were on its level and even Game of Thrones that used to be up there hasn’t really had that many scenes save for the random orgy scenes in a brothel in the background. (I do hear Outlander, which I don’t watch, is up there with theirs) Which begs the question are these scenes which we are being fed on Power necessary to the story line or gratuitous?

Every actor you ask always says that love scenes are uncomfortable and its technical and yada yada yada. How true is this? The fact still remains you are kissing this person. You are touching their boob and making sex movements. Or if you are Keri Russell how are you able to make your vein pop during a love scene since it’s so fake? Funny enough I just read Mindy Kaling’s book “Why Not Me?” and she touches on this subject. She says she enjoys them and any actor who says they don’t is lying. She explains they say that for a few reasons like not wanting to appear like a creep or not get in trouble with their significant other. She even tells a story of how a costar who was acquaintance of hers and married once placed her hand on his erection after a kissing scene – of course she didn’t name who. But I am inclined to believe her even if a little.

Which brings me to my other question. How do the significant others really really feel? I can tell you for a fact that acting or no acting, if my man was as fine as Omari Hardwicke and I saw him all bare assed all up on Lena Loren, I would be heated (not like I can be with an actor anyways). I looked up an article with the actors on Power and they all said the same usuals. Joseph Sikora who plays Tommy says that his wife is in the business so she knows there’s a sock and a dam as a barrier for their genitals and it is all acting. Lena Loren who plays Angela says she made it a point of duty to meet his wife and make her comfortable with Omari adding that she got closer to his wife than him.

With all said and done, forgive me if I sniff at these comments because all these actors that go on to date each other after meeting on set, as we see their chemistry practically burn us through the screen (Branjelina anyone?) aren’t a figment of our imaginations or it’s still just acting? Bottoms up!

What do you think?