Basic Instinct

The lovers: Machiavellian thriller writer Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) and glowering cop-on-the-edge Nick Curran (Michael Douglas).

The foreplay: Having brought murder suspect Sharon to the brink of white-hot desire by frugging dad-style in a cardigan, Mike heads back to her place for some risky nookie.

The horror: For those of us who grew up in the era of the ’90s 'erotic thriller' (a movement for which this movie was largely responsible), the sight of Michael Douglas’s wrinkly bonce bobbing up and down between Sharon Stone’s thighs was enough to put us off the whole idea of sex for life.

Dirty talk: ‘Have you ever fucked on cocaine, Nick? It’s nice.’

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The 20 movie sex scenes we never, ever wanted to see

Put it away! We count down the 20 most excruciating movie sex scenes

Tom Huddleston
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This week, ropey new comedy ‘Sex Tape’ casts Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel as a married couple trying to track down the candid flick they shot together. Now, maybe you find the idea of Hollywood plastics Segel and Diaz engaged in a bit of suburban nookie a real turn-on, but we’d imagine you’re in a minority. But it got us thinking – how many times have we been subjected to explicit scenes that we never asked for? And what are the most egregious examples? Here, for your skin-crawling entertainment, are the 20 movie sex scenes we really could have lived without.

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