Imagine this: it’s Valentine’s Day weekend, you’re sitting on a yoga mat with eight strangers, practicing fake orgasms. Sounds wild, right? But in Hollywood, it’s just another day at the office—at least if you’re training to be an intimacy coordinator. Recently, a writer went to a workshop where trainees learned everything from staging believable orgasms (“three oo’s and a sharp inhale!”) to handling nudity riders.
Intimacy coordinators, Hollywood’s newest profession born from #MeToo, choreograph on-screen passion safely and convincingly. Despite skeptics calling it overkill, intimacy coordinators are essential behind the scenes to ensure comfort, consent, and chemistry. Hollywood—and viewers—aren’t laughing at this once-mocked profession anymore. Welcome to Hollywood’s strangest new normal.
