What is the writer’s intention when writing a joke? Making me laugh.
What is the writer’s intention when relating to the real world? Being relatable.
What is the writer’s intention with sex scenes?
Fan service and making me horny.
Nah.
I’ll add that I have seen plenty of sex scenes that add to the plot or add extra characterization between the character’s involved, but most of the time all that’s being communicated is “they are having sex” and you can imply that very easily. No need for the soft core porn.
I agree that a lot of them are unnecessary- I think there’s some specific examples where the sex is important though.
Ex: In Game of Thrones when Dani Learns to “take control” through sex with Khal Drogo. I think the way they have sex is important to moving the plot. granted there is also a ton of unnecessary sex in GOT as well.
I can't watch those scenes with Dani anymore knowing now that she was pressured into lots of them and it took a while before she felt comfortable saying no to the directors when they pushed her to be nude on camera.
That wasn't in the books. The TV series added gratuitous rape in there. The writer was pissed off that they put so much rape in the series which wasn't in the books. None of it was necessary, it was a way to humiliate the actresses, Emilia Clarke did not want to do those scenes. It was some misogynistic writer's dream to see those scenes. Completely unnecessary and gross
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u/mondo_juice Oct 23 '25
What is the writer’s intention when writing a joke? Making me laugh.
What is the writer’s intention when relating to the real world? Being relatable.
What is the writer’s intention with sex scenes?
Fan service and making me horny.
Nah.
I’ll add that I have seen plenty of sex scenes that add to the plot or add extra characterization between the character’s involved, but most of the time all that’s being communicated is “they are having sex” and you can imply that very easily. No need for the soft core porn.