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6 Appropriately Awkward Sex Scenes

Valentine’s season has a way of emphasizing the nice, sweet parts of romantic relationships and glosses over the dirty, sloppy bits. Maybe that’s part of the point, to take a break from how lonely and alienated most people feel and just revel in the possibility that someone could actually know us and still like us despite this fact. I suppose it’s worthwhile to have a day to acknowledge this. And there are plenty of movies that highlight the mushy feelings that come with love and romance, and good on them for expressing those feelings. But since there is no day or movie season specifically designed to celebrate the awkwardness that accompanies most romantic encounters, and since it’s an unavoidable part of the experience of sex and romance that gets ignored during a season purporting to highlight this aspect of our lives, it seems like as good a time as any to offer an appreciation of the movies that depict how awkward and uncomfortable love can be at times. Specifically, during the most intimate of times.

[h2]3) Superbad[/h2]

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At the risk of overloading this list with too much Judd Apatow, if any movie deserves to be mentioned in conversation about awkward sex scenes, it’s Superbad. The scenes with Fogel aka McLovin go without saying; probably every line he utters has a tinge of sexual awkwardness, not to mention the scenes where he is involved in actual sex.

But the one that takes the cake is the scene involving Michael Cera, portraying teen drunkenness in a hilariously frank way, with the Martha MacIsaac character trying way too hard to be sexy, and Cera talking his way through, and seemingly trying to talk his way out of, their awkward drunken sexual encounter. Trying to return dirty-talky compliments is pretty difficult, as it turns out.

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