Actress Evan Rachel Wood recently took to Twitter to air her frustrations over the MPAA forcing a cunnilingus scene out of her upcoming movie “Charlie Countryman.” She found it a bit odd that a consensual scene of sexual pleasure was considered inappropriate while extreme, murderous violence was not: “The scene where the two main characters make ‘love’ was altered because someone felt that seeing a man give a woman oral sex made people ‘uncomfortable’ but the scenes in which people are murdered by having their heads blown off remained intact and unaltered.” Wood also speculated that the scene would not have been cut if it had shown a woman going down on a man.
She is utterly correct: Hollywood is sexist and sex-phobic. I’m not going to use this as an excuse to rant on the topic, though — been there, done that. Instead, let’s take a moment to recognize the best moments in cine-lingus history, shall we? Some of them are funny, some are sexy, and all deserve kudos for venturing where the MPAA would rather they not.
10.) “Away We Go”
This 2009 film doesn’t beat around the … bush: it opens with an oral sex scene. It isn’t the steamiest — the action between John Krasinski’s character, Burt, and Maya Rudolph’s Verona all happens under the sheets and out of view — but it’s the awkward, fumbling nature of their romp that makes it notable.
9.) “Boys Don’t Cry”
It all starts with a dreamy nighttime make-out in a deserted corn field. Before long, Chloe Sevigny’s top is off and Hilary Swank (as Brandon) is unbuttoning her pants. All we see are Sevigny’s blissful smiles and the whites of her eyes — which tell us everything we need to know about what’s happening off-screen.
8.) “Two Girls and a Guy”
In this 1998 film, Robert Downey Jr. pushes Heather Graham up against a wall and shoves his face in her derriere. Then he spins her around and goes down on her in a fever pitch. Zero nudity — and yet it’s steamy enough to have inspired someone to post it to the tube site YouPorn, alongside graphic penis-enlargement ads.
7.) “Greenberg”
You won’t find this one on YouPorn. On a drunken impulse, Ben Stiller’s character inelegantly shoves his face in Greta Gerwig’s crotch. She is so unimpressed by his lingual moves that in the middle of it she says, ”Did you hear a train?” In seconds, it’s over.
6.) “In the Cut”
As Rebecca Traister wrote in Salon at the time of the 2003 movie’s release, “a mustachioed and criminally attractive Mark Ruffalo takes recovering-moppet [Meg] Ryan to bed, plants her on her stomach, spreads her legs, and performs oral sex on her from behind in a scene that lasts a breathtaking two minutes.” Finally, oral sex gets more than a couple seconds of screen time.
Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in “Away We Go”
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