Welcome to the waves.

Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and all your pop culture jollies.

Every episode you get a new feminist to talk about the thing

we cannot get off our minds.

And today as your host, you've got me,

Nicole Perkins, writer and podcaster,

and unfortunately, a sucker for love romance and all the

juicy parts in between. Today we're going to get into the death of the sex

scene in film and television. Is it really dead? Where has

all the on-screen sexiness gone? This topic is very important to me, not only because

I am chronically

horny online, but I used to co-host a podcast called Thursday Kit,

which was all about the ways pop culture shapes

desire.

I think we all have a movie or a TV show that helped jumpstart our

puberty or maybe helped us come to terms with something about ourselves, right?

For me, that was the love scene between Prince and Apollonia and Purple Rain.

Okay, let me set the scene.

They're in the basement together, right?

Like his basement apartment.

And it's full of music and 80's decor like puppets and lace and clowns and stuff.

And they're on the bed together.

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