14. The Corridor Scene – Submission
In truth, almost any of Submissions hyper-sexual scenes probably could have made the cut here. The show was created as a direct response to the inauthentic portrayal of BDSM relationships and sex in Fifty Shades, so you always knew it was going to be filth. The levels is achieved in its first season were pretty incredibly even with that firmly in mind.
This scene was the perfect rebuttal to EL James terrible mummy porn: an exchange between two consenting adults with BDSM undertones (far less overt and hardcore than some of the others in the series) that explored the eroticism of power exchange in a way that victimised precisely nobody.
And there’s always something incredibly hot about a firm instruction not to talk. Even when the sex itself can’t have been all THAT comfortable in a corridor. Still, the show was very happy to uphold some well-established porn conventions.
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