Following on from their hit episode about feminist porn, Anniki Sommerville, Lisa Williams and Cherry Healey discuss sex on screen more broadly: why do film and TV sex scenes so often show a woman coming to a screaming climax after a few thrusts, and does this do a disservice to both women and men? The Shape of Water, Trainwreck, Fleabag and Don’t Look Now are among the titles discussed, and they set out ‘the Hotbed test’ as a way for listeners to assess how accurate a screen sex scene is to real life. Lastly, Lisa interviews Karen Krizanovich, the former Sky magazine sex columnist turned film critic, about the Naughty Nineties, bad advice, growing up with a straight-talking mother, and why she loves Sharon Stone.

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