In the last handful of years, intimacy coordinators have been normalized on Hollywood sets when it comes to actors engaging in nudity and sex scenes. But it wasn’t until SAG-AFTRA negotiated their tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that language around intimacy coordinators was officially …
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When Sharron Townsend, a cast member on Netflix’s reality dating show Too Hot to Handle, heard the show’s actual premise for the first time, he thought it was a joke. It was only their second day on set in sunny Punta Mita, Mexico, and the swimsuit-clad twentysomethings had just barely …
Read More »Shock and Aww: Inside the Mostly Wild and Sometimes Mild Life of Dr. Ruth
It’s still early in the day, but Dr. Ruth, who has been giving advice on all matters sexual for the past 44 years — she’s had radio shows and TV talk shows, was a David Letterman and Johnny Carson favorite, has written 46 books, among them the bestselling Sex for …
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