There is some Truth in Television to this very rarely can people remember what happens in a movie or TV show right after a major sex scene.ĭepending on the venue, the sudden appearance of a sex scene can be controversial. A number of books on directing films and screenwriting state outright that a sex scene can serve to take the audience out of the story, especially if it is explicit in nature. Functionally, it does nothing to advance the plot if nothing particularly important happens while they're having sex, especially when compared with the far more efficient Sexy Discretion Shot. Where it becomes illogical is that there's seldom any narrative purpose to show them actually doing the deed.

This trope is, at times, logical in the sense that given what we know about the characters in the story, yes, it makes some sense that they would make love at this time.