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Cinema's Body Problem — House House Magazine

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No one is trying to fuck anymore. And it’s a real shame because people seem to really want to. In the past year, sex has slowly crawled its way back to the movies. Starting with movies like Saltburn and Challengers, and more recently, films such as Babygirl, Queer, and Anora cinema has not become more sexy, rather, they are becoming more sexual. All three of these films focus on sex in their own way. Babygirl is about an inversted pyschosexual relationship between a boss and her much younger (male) employee; Queer is an adaptation of the William Burroughs’ novel centered around queer love and desperation; while Anora is about a stripper’s unlikely rise (and fall) to wealth through a serendipitous meeting with a Russian billionaire's son. None of these are bad films, and the presence of sex in them is not necessarily bad news; rather, it seems like an inevitable respite from the almost decades-long reign of sexless PG-13 films. It is worth noting, however, that despite the inevitable sh

SPRING/SUMMER 2025 Cinema’s Body Problem: How the Box Office Killed the Sex Scene Emerson Rhodes No one is trying to fuck anymore. And it’s a real shame because people seem to really want to. In the past year, sex has slowly crawled its way back to the movies. Starting with movies like Saltburn and Challengers , and more recently, films such as Babygirl , Queer, and Anora cinema has not become more sexy, rather, they are becoming more sexual. All three of these films focus on sex in their own way. Babygirl is about an inversted pyschosexual relationship between a boss and her much younger (mal

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