Before HBO and Netflix, you didn't have many options if you wanted to watch a no-holds-barred, graphic, sexy sex scene. But the age of streaming changed all that, and now not only can you watch literally any kind of sex scene you want, whenever you want, you can also catch some down-and-dirty sex on your favorite TV shows Friends would never! Sex is a normal, healthy, essential part of being a human in this world, and it's only right that some of the best TV shows out there reflect that. On that note, here are the most hot, graphic, and in some cases groundbreaking sex scenes we've seen on the small screen. If you're looking for scenes that venture more towards "romantic and passionate" territory, check out our roundup of those kind of sex scenes. Oh, and if you're looking for just Game of Thrones sex scenes, you bet we've got those too.

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. Nowhere near the sex scenes you've seen in movies since you branched out into the R-rated category and beyond.

Spoiler alert: We were wrong. Why 20 years and not 25? Not necessarily a mind-blowing revelation, given that this is also around the time that prestige TV began its takeover of the medium. Still, there are a few surprises on this list. We tallied their votes, came up with a shorter shortlist, and asked our writers to rank them in order of preference.

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