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What makes the perfect sex scene? The pure eroticism? Its emotional undercurrents? The shift and flow of the camera? Our concept of how sex should work on film speaks to so many variants: what personally gets us hot under the collar, whether we seek the fantastic or the realist, or how these scenes should tie in emotionally with the rest of the film. A great sex scene can be raw and passionate, languid and romantic; it can be tinged with an air of sadness and longing, or even downright hilarious.

Even though it's over, if there's one thing Game of Thrones remains notorious for—aside from that divisive and disappointing ending, of course—it's the sex scenes that littered the series. From season one, episode one, Game of Thrones proved that it was a show that was not afraid to show plenty of sex scenes, from young hotties Daenerys and Jon Snow to the incestuous pairing that were Cersei and Jamie. Yes, there was plenty of death in Game of Thrones some would say a depressing and unnecessary amount of death , including many of the people above—it's been over for a while, guys, I'm not going to apologize for the spoiler—but those heartbreaking death scenes were far outweighed by a long list of scorching hot and, okay, if we're being totally honest here, some not as hot sex scenes. Game of Thrones wasn't shy about exploring sex in many different forms and between many different characters.

Do you remember the first time you were sexually excited by an image on a screen? We do! It might've been a music video to a teen-pop bop, or a particularly mushy episode of Buffy. Most likely, it was a movie of the PG persuasion, which you snuck a viewing of far from the eyes of your parents when you were nowhere near the age of Looking back, those scenes were cute.

But something else also keeps us glued to the screen. Shameless is sexy as hell with some of the greatest sex scenes on television. Not only is Shameless lead Emmy Rossum a supreme hottie — Shameless shamelessly shows characters with actual sex lives enjoying sex.