A coming-of-age series about two teens navigating young love, “Heartstopper somehow manages to portray sex in ways that are both sweet and educational without being unsexy,” Casey Tanner, LCPC, certified sex therapist and expert at LELO, tells SELF. “Unlike romantic comedies that portray intimacy as seamless and steamy every time, this movie takes its audience for a more realistic ride, portraying sex that is sometimes awkward, sometimes playful, sometimes amorphous.”
12. Duck Butter
In an attempt to fast-track their instant connection, two women impulsively decide to spend 24 consecutive hours together, agreeing to hook up once every hour. “This unique premise allows the movie to showcase all the different ways that queer sex can look,” Gabrielle Kassel, a queer sex educator and journalist, tells SELF. Most of its scenes won’t give you perfectly-timed orgasms shaped by the male gaze—but that, Kassel argues, is what makes Duck Butter one of the most beloved LGBTQ+ movies on Netflix: “They’re deliberately unglamorous, giving viewers an honest look at the sometimes awkward, messy, very human nature of queer sex.”
13. The Perfection
Allison Williams, whom you’ll recognize from Girls and Get Out, stars in this psychological thriller about a rivalry between two obsessively ambitious cellists. There are multiple plot twists we won’t spoil, but we will tease a sensual lesbian sequence that starts on a sweaty dance floor before spilling into a bedroom with breathy groans, a few position switches, and a rare kind of passion born from long-simmering tension.
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