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I'm genuinely curious to know, what do you feel makes a good soap opera love scene, and what makes a bad one? Pretend you're defining it for TIIC at Days, but keep it PG-13 or below. Is it all about the couple involved? How much do you want shown vs. implied? How much is too much when it comes to the amount of skin and the movement or contact between the couple? What about the sound, like the music or any ... accompanying noises? This question was inspired by the general :sick: reaction here to the 2/6/15 love scene between Melanie and Brady, which several members felt looked like soft core porn.
 
For me, I'm okay with the kisses before, walking into the bedroom, waking up in the afterglow, discussing the time. I don't need to see details. (JJ/Eve's second hate-filled boink comes to mind.)

If they are to be LOVE scenes, then the couples should be in LOVE. Save the tawdry smut for HBO.
 
I think for me it comes down to how I feel about the couple. Case in point: I thought EJ and Abby were H.O.T. but EJ and Sami made me want to hurl.

I didn't watch Brady/Melanie today but even on FF it was vomit-inducing.

I must say, as much as I can't stand Daniel and Jennifer together, their love scenes were probably some of the better ones in terms of how they were filmed, amount of skin shown, movement, etc. I thought the odd production of Hope and Aiden's first time was very distracting but otherwise those were pretty good.

Brady/Arianna, Brady/Madison, Stephanie/Max, EJ/Abby, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others, have all been pretty graphic. The thing that is irritating to me is when they show couples constantly having sex, like Abby and Ben. Yeah, I'm sure they go to the bathroom everyday too but I don't need to see it to know it happens. Of course, the romance ship seems to have sailed with this show so I guess I shouldn't be surprised they seem to equate romance with sex.
 
To be honest, I only hate a love scene when it involves a couple or character I hate. :rolleyes: If it involves a character/couple I love? Then I couldn't care less how "graphic" it is. Bring it on. :rotfl:
 
You definitely got the gist of what happened today with Brady and Melanie even if you FF like I did. I felt like they didn't have to show all of what they did and maybe it's just me but I feel like there wasn't a build up of passion beforehand? All that silly talk about meeting to talk about having a date? It did not seem sweet at all to me.
 
Days has only to go back into their own history, when they did love scenes that were LOVE scenes, non-graphic. As pointed out, their own Steve/Kayla, John/Marlena, Bo/Hope...No one was offended, or wanted to FF through those scenes. They were loving, tender, true. Sometimes you had a couple kissing, hugging, and just walking hand in hand to a bedroom. And you really need nothing more. Now these couples are slam, bang, thank you ma'am, tearing clothes off, using desk tops, sofas, the floor, just dogs in heat. But getting as graphic as these scenes have been of late is over the top. Too bad there is no longer a censor office to monitor this stuff.
And to think the media was in an uproar over a supposed "accident" during half time at the Super Bowl a few years ago. (when the singer's top slipped a bit to expose more than supposedly intended)
 
A lot of us on this board, are married!!! So, speaking strictly for myself.... I don't need graphic lessons!!! The shows that had Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie) and Bill Hayes (Doug) come to mind. As well as many others.... to my mind, what they are showing isn't love just plain lust.... I can't FF as I don't have anything that does that... but I DO have a mute button!!!!
 
Indeed, a kiss, holding hands, perhaps sitting on a bed, that's enough for me too. A kiss (a subtle one, not a noisy, sucking one) or two, that's romantic for me. So kissing before, and talking and kissing after, no need to fill in the blanks : I can do that myself.

And I've said this before, but no matter how many times actors say a sex scene is not romantic, or is so technical, I can't help but think they are human. Plus, what about their spouses ? I would hate seeing my husband in bed with another woman, almost naked, touching and kissing and caressing, etc. I would understand a kiss or two, but this ? Oh, no, it just wouldn't work for me.

Melanie and Brady, Madison and Brady (all the sucking noises), Sami and EJ having grief sex, Eve and JJ : too, too, too much ! Tone it down, people !
 
Here's what I think really the most recent actual romantic love scenes go back to Chloe and Brady in the early 2000s. I remember them singing together and it was all done tastefully everything. Some Belle and Shawn scenes were good until the writer's corrupted Belle cheating on Shawn with Philip.

It's also a good thing Nancy and Craig stay FAR FAR away from Salem so they can stay a happy married couple who scheme together. Billie and Bo in the early-mid 90's were probably my favorite.

My opinion. A lot of the current cast don't seem to have much chemistry with the current couples as of right now. Except for maybe Hope and Aiden, I just don't see anything that can appear romantic. Which is why we're stuck with raunchy soft porn, its a distraction and the way times are lately.
 
In my opinion the anticipation of the kiss is the best. When a couple is in love. I think Aiden and Hope are the only couple right now who have that. I don't want the porn music either.

I can not stand the hate sex. I have been married for almost 25 years and I can tell you when I am mad at my spouse the last thing I want to do is jump into bed with him.
 
First I have to like the couple. I can't comment much on Brady Melanie cause I had to look away....:sick:

The only other soap I watch is GH and the only one on there that I thought was sweet was Maxie and Nathan and that was because Nathan put the whole thing together and was a really done well scene. Before that I can't remember the last time a romance made me say "aww"
 
If I wanted to watch a sex scene, I would just seek out soft porn. However, I don't want to watch a sex scene. I don't ever watch porn- don't care to watch it. However... the kissing, some kind of conversation maybe, and they disappear for a bit, then are shown in "after glow"... such as what Jason suggested- I like that. Let my imagination figure out what they did in the bedroom, I certainly don't need to see it on tv to get the idea.

And if I must see them in bed together... I don't want to see too much. Again- I have 2 children, I know how the hanky panky is done. Let my imagination have a little fun, my eyes can't unsee the images you come up with.
 
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