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The 11 Best TV Sex Scenes Of 2015 So Far Prove It Doesn't Have To Be Summer For Things To Get Steamy
June marks the halfway point of the year and I believe that the best way to celebrate rounding the corner into summer is to evaluate the best sex scenes on TV in 2015. I already undertook on the oh-so-difficult task of reflecting on 2014's greatest television sex scenes and now I'm suffering again to cover the art of the good old-fashioned sex scene on the boob tube from January to the end of May in 2015 — before summer TV and the fall season bring even more.
I did my best not to accidentally omit any steamy scenes that TV characters get down and dirty with. But I also tried to stay true to the definition of a sex scene and only include when people were getting it on — on camera. (Sorry, Lady Mary and Lord Gillingham. Your sex vacay on Downton Abbey was just too proper to make the list.)
Here are the 11 best sex scenes of 2015 so far. And based on what was on TV in the first five months of the year, I expect big things to come from June to December.
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Desi & Marnie On 'Girls'
Let’s not beat around the bush here — this list should start with a doozy. And it comes in the form of worst-person-ever Desi blowing by the bush and performing some anilingus on Marnie on Girls. (Actually, that worst-person-ever title may belong to Marnie.) That’s one way to start your show’s fourth season.
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Alicia & Johnny... & Finn On 'The Good Wife'
In the episode “Mind’s Eye,” The Good Wife fans got a glimpse of what goes down in Alicia’s mind — and it was sexy… and kind of scary. While sick and on the phone with Johnny, she imagined having sex with him. And then he morphed into Finn. Although these were just fantasies, they’re still pretty damn confusing.
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Sam & Gilly On 'Game Of Thrones'
They finally did it! Perhaps one of the only heartwarming things to happen on Game of Thrones is that Sam and Gilly actually got down in the May 24 episode “The Gift.” With so many severely troubling sexual storylines happening in Season 5, it was nice to see two people have consensual sex.
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Lucious & Cookie On 'Empire'
Empire roared onto the TV scene in 2015 with scandalous moments galore and the two main stars (and exes) inevitably got it on. Lucious and Cookie’s primal urges could not be denied and the couple had sex. And if that wasn’t dramatic enough, Lucious’ fiancée Anika saw them doing the deed.
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Patrick & Kevin On 'Looking'
With HBO’s Looking not being renewed for Season 3, this may be one of my last opportunities to acknowledge their realistic gay sex scenes. In the third episode of Season 2, Kevin and Patrick earned another spot on the best sex on TV list by spending some serious quality time together, including Patrick getting on top.
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Phil 2.0 & Carol On 'The Last Man On Earth'
I had no idea that Will Forte’s The Last Man on Earth would have such a focus on sex between the surviving people on Earth. How naive of me! Forte’s Phil Miller and Kristen Schaal’s Karen Pilbasian had sex as man and wife earlier in the season, but after getting divorced, Karen had sex with the other Phil Miller who happened to survive. Karen kept with her chatty sex life as the two shared hilarious picnic-themed dirty talk.
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Rafael & Jane On 'Jane The Virgin'
Wait?! How the hell did a virgin get on this list?? Jane of Jane the Virgin didn’t actually go all the way with Rafael, but the two were oh-so close when they shared a sexy skinny dip in the pool at the hotel Rafael owns. The pair was interrupted before they could have sex, and thus, Jane maintained her virgin status at the end of Season 1.
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Frank & Claire On 'House of Cards'
Like a fool, I did not include the Frank-Claire-Meechum ménage à trois in my best sex scenes of 2014 list. (Even though we didn’t get to see much action between the power couple and their bodyguard, that was definitely the best implied sex scene of all 2014.) In Season 3, the most-talked about sex scene of House of Cards was in the second episode between just Frank and Claire, since it was the first time viewers saw the pair copulate onscreen.
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Claire & Jamie On 'Outlander'
Another insane oversight of mine in 2014’s list was the show Outlander, which really has the best portrayal of nudity and sex on television right now. When the Starz show returned for the second half of Season 1 in April, it didn’t let up. The episode “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” started with the married man Jamie performing oral sex on his wife Claire. Even if the oh-so-hot scene got interrupted, Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan absolutely smolder together. Thank the TV sex scene gods for Outlander!
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Don & Diana On 'Mad Men'
When Mad Men returned for the final episodes of the series with Season 7B in 2015, Don Draper jumped right back into his dogging ways. He took a liking to Elizabeth Reaser’s waitress Diana and the two went at it in the alleyway behind the diner on her work break. Oh, Don. You always kept it classy.
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Abbi & Jeremy On 'Broad City'
After Outlander, Broad City has provided the best sex scene of 2015 so far. Abbi finally realized her dream of sleeping with her neighbor Jeremy in Season 2. There was just a slight catch — he wanted her to peg him. Not familiar with the term? Well, he provided Abbi with a strap-on dildo, so that she could penetrate him in the ass. Abbi got down with it, but when she put the strap-on in the dishwasher, their brief fling ended. Oh, the fickleness of sex.
Here’s to more great TV sex for the rest of 2015!
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