There's a new profession being practiced, akin to what stunt coordinators have long done in films, to try to keep the actors and stuntmen and women safe. Intimacy coordinators coordinate sex scenes.
Here's the story in the New Yorker:
How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator
At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer discovered a world of Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job. By Jennifer Wilson
" It is a new job—so new, in fact, that the union offers a definition on its website: “an advocate, a liaison between actors and production, and a movement coach and/or choreographer” of sex scenes.
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"Intimacy coördinators are one of the most visible “wins” of the #MeToo movement. It’s no surprise that the public has begun to perceive a director’s or a star’s attitude toward them as a proxy for his or her attitude about consent and abuse of power.
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"Intimacy coördinators are part of the gig economy and thus susceptible to the same forces they are hired to mitigate. “We talk about the power dynamics that actors are under,” Jessica Steinrock, the C.E.O. of Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, the largest training program in the industry, said. “We are also under a significant amount of power dynamics.” She went on, “At the end of the day, sticking up for an actor and saying, ‘Hey, no, we can’t film this’—there’s a real chance that we’re going to get fired, and there’s really nothing we can do about it.”
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And the business of coordinating portrayals of intimacy has it's own journal: The Journal of Consent-Based Performance
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