Netflix just dropped the second season of Sex/Life, the steamy relationship drama which follows the complicated private life of Billie (Sarah Shahi), her husband Cooper (Mike Vogel), and her ex-boyfriend Brad (Adam Demos), to whom she is still inexorably and insatiably attracted.
The first season of the racy series blew up on Twitter when it began streaming in summer 2021—or it might be more accurate to say, one moment in particular gained the internet’s unadulterated attention. In episode three, an increasingly jealous and insecure Cooper started to stalk Brad, following him to the gym and even into the showers. There, both he and viewers were astounded to see what Brad was working with, in a still-rare-for-TV shot of full frontal male nudity.
While a growing number of shows are balancing the gendered scales when it comes to nude scenes—The White Lotus, Minx, Scenes From a Marriage and Heels all come to mind—most productions deploy some kind of penile prosthetic. Demos, however, was more than happy to hang loose in the now-infamous shower scene.
“I was okay with it because you read the script and know what you’re getting yourself into from the start,” he said. “We would have an intimacy coordinator and everyone would speak about it and their comfort levels… You would rehearse it so much that by the time you did it, it was a lot more comfortable than you’d assume.”
And there’s more where that came from. Season 2 also features more of Brad’s penis, albeit in a very different kind of scene: a dream sequence in which Brad and Billie get intimate includes a shot of the tip of Brad’s erect penis poking out from the waistband of his jeans.
The second season also features a full-frontal shot courtesy of a character named Devon (Jonathan Sadowski), who gamely shows off his replacement penis after his own got bitten off by a sex worker. It’s unclear whether these scenes feature the real thing or prop peen, but it’s good to know Sex/Life remains committed to its mission of showing as much male nudity as female.
Philip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV.
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