Table 3.
Scenes with sexual and romantic talk based on whether the scene is relational and/or recreational in theme and whether the scene indicates sex and/or love
| In scenes with which theme? |
In scenes with which indication? |
Total Scenes | Approx Min/Hr | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk | Relational | Recreational | Both | Neither | Sex | Love | Both | Neither | ||
| Liking/loving | 168 | 50 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 134 | 109 | 0 | 247 | 5.75 |
| Building relationship | 111 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 77 | 51 | 0 | 133 | 3.10 |
| Harming relationship | 112 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 91 | 64 | 0 | 163 | 3.79 |
| New/future sexual actions | 41 | 34 | 7 | 12 | 51 | 2 | 41 | 0 | 94 | 2.19 |
| Past sexual actions | 25 | 37 | 10 | 11 | 49 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 83 | 1.93 |
| Past sexual intercourse | 31 | 34 | 5 | 12 | 38 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 82 | 1.91 |
| Talk toward sex (desire) | 11 | 27 | 3 | 8 | 37 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 49 | 1.14 |
| Sex related crimes | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0.47 |
| Expert advice | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.05 |
| Sex-related development | 65 | 10 | 0 | 28 | 73 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 103 | 2.40 |
| Waiting until marriage | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.07 |
| Sex joke or pun | 26 | 16 | 2 | 603 | 45 | 13 | 6 | 583 | 647 | 15.06 |
| No sexual talk | 32 | 28 | 1 | 1249 | 71 | 13 | 6 | 1220 | 1310 | 30.49 |
| Total scenes | 421 | 199 | 25 | 1933 | 325 | 260 | 190 | 1803 | 2578 | 60.00 |
Note. Scenes with at least some type of sexual and/or romantic talk (= 1268 scenes) might have one or more type of talk; categories beyond “no sexual talk” are not mutually exclusive.