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6 Appropriately Awkward Sex Scenes

Valentine’s season has a way of emphasizing the nice, sweet parts of romantic relationships and glosses over the dirty, sloppy bits. Maybe that’s part of the point, to take a break from how lonely and alienated most people feel and just revel in the possibility that someone could actually know us and still like us despite this fact. I suppose it’s worthwhile to have a day to acknowledge this. And there are plenty of movies that highlight the mushy feelings that come with love and romance, and good on them for expressing those feelings. But since there is no day or movie season specifically designed to celebrate the awkwardness that accompanies most romantic encounters, and since it’s an unavoidable part of the experience of sex and romance that gets ignored during a season purporting to highlight this aspect of our lives, it seems like as good a time as any to offer an appreciation of the movies that depict how awkward and uncomfortable love can be at times. Specifically, during the most intimate of times.

[h2]2) Greenberg[/h2]

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Greenberg is kind of like if Silver Linings Playbook was a little less sweet and endearing and instead of having handsome and charming Bradley Cooper in the lead it has an off-putting and often completely unlikeable Ben Stiller playing the title role of Roger Greenberg. While Greta Gerwig may be somewhat less obviously crazy than Jennifer Lawrence in the movie, she’s got her own stuff, which makes for some rather unique chemistry between the two characters.

This is most evident in their first sexual encounter. The honesty Noah Baumbach depicts this with is awesome, but no less cringe-worthy, as Roger dives right into performing some good old oral sex, a little hastily to say the least.

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