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Topic: intimacy coordinator

Zoe Lister-Jones (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Zoe Lister-Jones on subverting sex on TV

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hannah Waddingham, Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde from "Tom Jones" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/PBS)

"Tom Jones" and the awkward sex scene

Hanh Nguyen
Sean Bean attends the "Game Of Thrones" Season 8 Premiere on April 03, 2019 in New York City (imitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Sean Bean against intimacy coordinators

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando on the set of Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

What film & TV intimacy coordinators do

Susan Berridge, Tanya Horeck - The Conversation
Emily Meade in "The Deuce" (HBO/Paul Schiraldi)

How HBO is changing sex scenes forever

Breena Kerr - Rolling Stone
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