Yeah. I feel like things like fight and sex scenes are often filler. They’re like black boxes that only matter to the story at either end. Why are these characters having sex/fighting? What’s the outcome? Has this confirmed their romance or made them rethink things? Who won the fight and what does that mean going forward?

The actual details of either kind of scene are essentially suspensions of any narrative or thematic development in favor of pure spectacle. Now sometimes spectacle can be good. But while I’ve seen good action scenes that are exciting to watch, what would even make for a good sex scene as far as spectacle goes? People aren’t exactly looking to get a boner in the middle of a 2hr movie. Are there people who are just really appreciative of some kind of abstracted eroticism separated from stimulation?

Even though it’s not the reason given in the article; in my own personal experiences I dislike sex scenes in movies/ TV (even though sex is a natural thing) because it rarely actually adds much to the plot that you could only get by seeing the sex happen.

People like to joke that you never see TV show/ movie characters go to the bathroom or say goodbye before hanging up, but there’s a reason for it. Story telling is a time constrained medium and you need to trim the fat when it comes to unnecessary details.

With that in mind, sometimes it really feels like the only reason a sex scene is being shown is not to advance the plot, but for the audience’s titillation.

Of course, all this is just my personal opinion, and not an objective fact; but to me sex scenes are rarely important to the plot and just feel unnecessarily tacked on.