I start getting anxious when people touch each other all the time in films! Do you feel that?" a friend said to me soon after physical distancing entered our lives. Now, as we contemplate back-to-work, this has become a central question of cinema. Film bodies worldwide are trying to define SOPs for shooting intimate scenes.

The anxiety about sex on screen is not really new. The anxiety about the body as sexual, as something that desires sex, usually comes with the moral baggage of those who want to control, well, everything.