romantic comedy (and its...

May 22, 2012 #

romantic comedy (and its television variations) devotes its energies to obscuring the possible gaps between things like companionability, attraction, and intense sexual arousal. Hannah’s is also a situation that would be impossible to depict without a graphic sex scene, and offers a clear example of what sex scenes are good for. If all you want to do is convey an erotic tension between two people, you can leave out explicit depictions of sex acts. But if you are interested in the psychological implications of what happens between people during sex, you need to show something of the sex.

—On Lena Dunham’s depiction of sexual encounters in Girls. The Loves of Lena Dunham by Elaine Blair | The New York Review of Books

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