Sex, Anxiety and OCD

They don’t show sexual anxiety in the movies

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This article is part of the column Overthinking Everything at She Explores Life.

I rarely find the sex scenes of TV shows and movies relatable. Particularly those of zealous lovers or steamy hookups. The reasons for this vary. One is entertainment’s tendency to favor fantasy over reality. Sex on the screen is perhaps meant to…