History Main / SexyDiscretionShot

* In ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'', the DiscretionShot actually pans away before a kiss between two girls, and then back (all that happens is a kiss) -- apparently the camera has some very old-timey sensibilities. In another case, it pans away when a character unbuttons her pyjama jacket to show a scar on her chest to another character.

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': During the furo scene in episode 12, [[SceneryCensor the water]] conceals the moment Anna 69's with Tanukichi. She dunks his head before she sits on his face, then dips her own head underwater to perform oral sex on him.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'':

* The PSP game, ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Infinity Moment'' and its UpdatedRerelease on PS Vita, ''Hollow Fragment'' has a sidequest in which you had to fix your marriage with Asuna. After the sidequest, there is an event in which Kirito and Asuna are going for a second honeymoon. In the end, Asuna will ask you to sleep with her for the night. After a fade to black and a rather suggestive line from Asuna, the game cuts from next day, and you are greeted to a CG of Asuna naked with a ModestyBedsheet. It's pretty clear what has happened.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'' did this with a pair of mating ''Stegosaurus'', although this has more to do with pragmatism rather than fear of vulgarity, because we honestly have no real clue how stegosaurs actually did it (since their huge and iconic dorsal plates would obviously prevent traditional mounting).

* ''Average Joe'': Melana Scanlon and Jason Peoples continue their smooching [[AutoErotica in the limo]] and when the windows fog up, the camera cuts away as their smooching turns into heavy petting.

* The narrator of "Norwegian Wood", by Music/TheBeatles, is invited by a girl to stay in her room for the night. When she declares "[i]t's time for bed", the narration drops out for four bars, at the end of which the narrator has yet to find a place to actually sleep.

** During the bath scene in chapter 6, Rei gropes Shizuka's boobs to see if they're real, due to [[GagBoobs their enormous size.]] The very next panel shows Saya's reaction, while Shizuka's cries of "Not '''THERE! ♥'''" and "No more! ♥" are seen from just out of frame, along with various sound effect hiragana.

Similar tropes include DressHitsFloor, DontComeAKnockin, KissingDiscretionShot, PinkIsErotic, RapeDiscretionShot (if the sexual encounter is non-consensual), TakeOurWordForIt, CoitusEnsues (if the scene ''doesn't'' fade to black), SexyCoatFlashing, SomethingElseAlsoRises, RelaxOVision, SexDressed. This may be a result of CrashingThroughTheHarem. Compare LewdLustChasteSex, when everything is described in sexy detail except the deed itself. Compare PostCoitalCollapse.

** About midway through the film, they run into each other again when Lupin infiltrates Morocco's police HQ, while [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer disguised as an officer.]] After he accidentally spills the beans about the treasure he's after, Fujiko returns the favor [[CoitusEnsues by giving him hers.]] The scene then pans over to the opposite wall, before fading to black.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': Invoked when [[{{Meganekko}} Kaori's]] unnamed opponent is forced to carry out [[ADateWithRosiePalms the penalty for losing at level-1.]] Kaori's face is kept in the foreground of the shot, [[SceneryCensor to prevent the viewer from seeing it]], though you can faintly hear the other girl moaning behind her. The scene changes just as she steps out of the way.

Similar tropes include DressHitsFloor, DontComeAKnockin, KissingDiscretionShot, RapeDiscretionShot (if the sexual encounter is non-consensual), TakeOurWordForIt, CoitusEnsues (if the scene ''doesn't'' fade to black), SexyCoatFlashing, SomethingElseAlsoRises, RelaxOVision, SexDressed. This may be a result of CrashingThroughTheHarem. Compare LewdLustChasteSex, when everything is described in sexy detail except the deed itself. Compare PostCoitalCollapse.

** During the bath scene in chapter 6, Rei gropes [[ChristmasCake Shizuka's]] boobs to see if they're real, due to [[GagBoobs their enormous size.]] The very next panel shows Saya's reaction, while Shizuka's cries of "Not '''THERE! ♥'''" and "No more! ♥" are seen from just out of frame, along with various sound effect hiragana.
--->'''Saya:''' ''[{{deadpan|Snarker}}]'' [[LampshadeHanging It sounds like an]] HGame over there...

* Happens in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' when [[spoiler: Guts and Casca are making love.]]

* Invoked in ''Film/ForrestGump'', where Jenny climbs into Forrest's bed and the scene fades to black.
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' has a scene of [[ConversationalTroping two guys talking about]] a DiscretionShot, without actually showing the shot itself.
* Spoofed in ''Film/TopSecret'': the hero and heroine have embraced, started kissing, and have gotten to rolling around on the furniture when we pan away to a fireplace. Then they roll onto the floor right in front of the fireplace, so the camera pans away again...to another fireplace. The director's cut has them rolling in front of ''that'' fireplace, too, forcing the camera to pan to the window... and in the window, you can see a building on fire. As if that weren't enough, a few scenes later the shot parodies ''itself'' while the characters are parachuting into enemy territory. They start kissing, we pan over to... a fireplace wearing a parachute.
* Also parodied in ''National Lampoon's Film/LoadedWeapon1'', where Emilio Estevez and Creator/KathyIreland are in bed getting ready for it. Pan over to a digital clock. The time advances by one minute, a change of a single digit. Pan back to the bed, where they are [[SmokingHotSex smoking cigarettes]]. Lampshaded later, where Kathy asks if they can actually make love next time instead of just smoking in bed.
* In the gangster spoof ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'', this is parodied (along with DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo): the titular character and his love interest start kissing passionately, the camera pans up to some fireworks... and it cuts to another character, who looks up at the fireworks and remarks "[[GenreSavvy Looks like Johnny's getting laid]]!"
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' has a slightly strange example: Simon and Kaylee start kissing and fall out of the frame, while the camera, staying in place, allows us to see River, [[WallGlower peeking at them through a hatch in the ceiling]].
* Played with in ''Film/{{Click}}''; the camera does pan away, but only far enough to show the remote going automatically to fast forward, and their shadows. The aftershot with the ModestyBedsheet shows them, but only [[SpeedSex he's satisfied]].

* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' uses a textbook 'candle dissolves to a much-shorter candle' shot to indicate d'Artagnan has successfully convinced Madame Bonacieux "why, that's the best place for you, bed ..."
* ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'': Sam is leaning in and kissing Brigid in the window, suddenly it's the next morning and the curtains in the window are blowing gently in the sunlight.
* At the end of ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' Robin and Marian go to unlock her chastity belt after their wedding. The camera pans out onto a skyward view of the area, except (shown through a voice-over) Robin can't open her chastity belt and begins calling for a locksmith.
* In ''Film/TheSaragossaManuscript'' (1965), the hero embraces two sisters sitting on a bed; the camera remains fixed as the characters sink down out of the frame.
* Subverted in ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'' -- the secret agent hero and his girl lay back on the bed, the camera pans right, to some flowers in a pot, then it pans right some more -- and we "accidentally" see some jerky, inept-looking (fully clothed) sex in a mirror for a few seconds before the camera " realizes" what's happened and quickly pans left back to the flowers.

* Used in-universe in ''Film/{{Cousins}}'' during Mitch's showing of his wedding video.
* The Creator/AlfredHitchcock classic ''Film/ToCatchAThief'' plays this trope straight, but so hard that it almost seems like a parody. Check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-X36HfBGI this clip]] starting at about 40 seconds in.
* In ''Film/APlaceInTheSun'', the main character and his girlfriend are slow-dancing in her room. The camera pans over to the window. The rain stops as the sky changes from night to day and her radio now plays static. . .and now we see the man leaving her house. While the pan to the window hinted at it, seeing him leave the house in the daytime confirms that he spent the night with her. The movie was made in 1951 and the scene was likely shot this way to avoid issues with the censors.
* In ''Film/MeAndOrsonWelles'' this trope is both employed (when the image fades to black ofter Sonja invites Richard into the bedroom) and, in its literary form, {{discussed|Trope}}:
-->'''Joseph Cotten:''' Welcome to "quadruple space", kid.\\
'''[[Creator/ZacEfron Richard]]:''' What's "quadruple space"?\\
'''Joseph Cotten:''' You know, in a novel, when the main characters are finally about to schtup. They can't describe it, otherwise they can't print the book. They just go, you know, "he hugged her hard, they fell on to the bed", Period, ''Quadruple space.''
* In ''Film/MaidInManhattan'', the title character and her paramour embrace and sink from view. The scene fades away to be replaced by a rosy dawn as the camera pans down to them lying in bed in the afterglow.
* ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring'': We see Griet passionately kissing Pieter while standing outside a pub at night with her leg up along his side. There's more kissing, heavy breathing, and some partial undressing (no nudity). We later see her finishing getting dressed, thus implying additional fooling around or sex.

* The film noir classic ''Film/OutOfThePast'' features a scene where the leading man and the femme fatale walk into his villa, she trips and lands on the couch, and the camera decides it would be an ideal time to go outside and have a quick stroll in the Mexican jungle before returning to find the two of them sitting on the couch drinking whisky and laughing.
%%* Used twice in ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful''
%%* Double Subverted in ''Picasso Trigger'' during the hot tub sex scene between Hope Marie Carlton and Bruce Penhall. {{N|otSafeForWork}}SFW
* In ''Candy Stripe Nurses'', Candice Rialson goes to a patient's room to [[SexualEuphemism spend time with him]] and then, in the next scene, she's naked in his bed with the [[ModestyBedsheet bedsheets pulled up to her stomach]]. [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]].
%%* ''Film/ToDieFor''.

%%* ''Hardbodies'': Kristi teaches Scotty how to use his waterbed.
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'':
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', Ginny enters her cabin, takes her shirt off and reveals her bra. She then puts on her robe and hears a knock on the door; she goes to investigate and is never more than two steps out of her door. Ginny goes back in and Paul surprises her. They kiss and Paul unhooks Ginny's bra underneath her robe. Crazy Ralph is [[ThePeepingTom secretly watching them]] before he's garroted by Jason against the tree he is near. The next morning, Ginnny wakes up alone with "Beware of Bears" written on her mirror in lipstick.
** ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' has a couple of these scenes. The first one has the [[ThePeepingTom voyeuristic Tommy Jarvis]] looking out his bedroom window and watching some of Paul and Samantha's foreplay until he pretends to be asleep and Mrs. Jarvis pulls down the pulls the window shade down. The second scene has Jimmy sitting on the bed while Tina unbuttons her blouse.
* A necessity in the Adrian Lyne adaptation of ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' as it involves a man having sex with an underage girl (though the events are set in the 50s so there may be a retro look involved too). We see Dolores with MessyHair, dressed in a pyjama top sitting on the lap of a shirtless Humbert in a NoTellMotel. They rock back and forth in their chair and Dolores starts moaning, then the scene cuts to the overhead fan that's turning with a rhythmic throb.
* In ''Film/{{Downstairs}}'', Karl the evil chauffeur finally cajoles Anna the innocent (and married) ladies' maid into kissing him. Cut to the decorative figurine in a snow globe that sits on her table. The camera stays on the snow globe as Karl's coat is thrown on top of it.

* In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', Film/JamesBond and Fiona Volpe's sex is represented by a Junkanoo parade. Mostly featuring a man playing a [[TheImmodestOrgasm loud horn]]. In fact, most Bond movies handle sex by way of this trope. The only ones with explicit sex scenes are ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'' with [[TheDragon Xenia]] and the Canadian admiral she kills [[OutWithABang during the act]], and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' with Bond and Jynx.
%%* ''Humongous'': Sandy and Eric on the boat.
%%* ''Summer Job'' has a couple of these scenes. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZnjY4kK_KY#t=41m44s first scene]], it's [[DidTheyOrDidntThey implied]] that Kathy [[ThreeWaySex had a threesome]] with Bob and Tom. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZnjY4kK_KY#t=88m18s second]] scene, Kathy and Bruce have sex in an inflatable tent.{{NSFW}}
%%* In ''The Young Nurses'', Matt has a [[SexualEuphemism physical therapy session]] with Nurse Kitty in the hydrotherapy tub.

%%* ''Film/OxfordBlues'': Nick De Angelo has a one night stand with the Las Vegas Lady.
* Double subverted in ''Film/TheStudentNurses'' when Pherd's in bed with Jim, but played straight when she's [[ModestyBedsheet between the sheets]] with another doctor.
* In-universe in ''Film/{{Mamma Mia}}''. Sophie has found her mother's diary from the summer when Sophie was conceived, and every time Donna is about to get intimate with one of the possible fathers, the narrative trails off with an ellipsis, read out loud by Sophie as "dot dot dot."
%%* Lisa and Wyatt in ''Film/WeirdScience''.
* In ''Film/WildTales'', as the married couple start to have sex on the table with the wedding cake, the camera pans away, focusing on the toppers on the ground... and the pieces of cake that fall all over them.
* Danny Hodges and Judith Meyers in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF1DCf1ChA#t=0m08s the opening]] of ''Film/Halloween1978''.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfG8WR7NZk#t=2m28s this scene]] in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'', Ty Webb gives Lacey Underall a [[HappyEndingMassage massage]].
* Stu, O.T. and the girls in the Corvette [[ModestyBedSheet get between the sheets]] in ''Spring Break''.{{NSFW}}
* One of the most famous examples in film, the "Walls of Jericho," appears in ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight.'' Early in the movie, Peter (Creator/ClarkGable) and Ellie (Creator/ClaudetteColbert) find themselves sharing a hotel room; to ensure privacy, Ellie insists on hanging a sheet between the room's beds, and Peter dubs it the Walls of Jericho, referencing a famous story from Literature/TheBible featuring the walled city of Jericho; the walls fell when Joshua and his army blew their trumpets. At the end of the movie, Peter and Ellie, now married, return to the same hotel for their honeymoon, and the owner comments to a friend that for some reason, Peter demanded a trumpet while checking in. We cut to a shot of the bedroom floor, hear a horn's blow...and a sheet tumbles to the ground. That's all we need to see to know that the walls have indeed come down.

%%* ''Film/Millennium1989'': Bill Smith and Louise Baltimore.
* In ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': Mark Hand's ship orbiting Barbarella's is shown while they're having sex.
* Used in ''Film/BabyDoll''. Silva is invited to sleep in Baby Doll's "crib" (a sort of summer couch with slats), and Baby Doll puts a blanket over him. When we next see them, Silva is still asleep in Baby Doll's crib and Baby Doll is dressed in a slip, her hand in his. When Archie Lee comes home and they have dinner together, Silva remarks that Baby Doll is "grown-up all of a sudden". This subtly implies that something intimate has definitely gone between them.
* ''Film/Nightfall2000'': While Illyra and Metron are out in the wilderness, he invites her to lay her head on his chest as a pillow. She does, and asks him if his behaviour was acceptable for a Watcher. He admits that it isn't, and they kiss, rolling over so that Metron is on top of Illyra.
* Creator/JuliaRoberts is a self-described example:
-->"People don't want to see me having sex... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger!'"

* In ''Film/RoadTrip'', Beth decides to make a video-tape of Josh starting it as an interview of what kind of woman he likes. She proceeds to flirt with him getting undressed during the questions and then lays herself on top of John to begin making out with him on the bed. The last shot cuts back to the video-recorder on the desk still filming the off-screen sex going on between John and Beth.
* ''Film/PortraitOfALadyOnFire'': Marianne and Héloïse kiss, then the film cuts to show them in bed together the next morning. This also happens with their other sexual encounters.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': After liberating Veld, Steve and Diana share an intimate moment together. Following their dance in the snow, Steve escorts Diana to her hotel room. Rather than leave, Steve enters too after Diana gives him an inviting look. They kiss passionately before the camera cuts away to the outside of the building, where the light in Diana's room is the only one still on.
* ''Film/TheLastLegion'': Mira gets into bed with Aurelius, then the scene fades out.
* ''Film/BreakingTheGirls'': Whenever a couple starts getting busy, the scene fades out to show something else, or them in bed together afterward (except for Nina and David, though it's not explicit).
* ''{{Film/Bit}}'': The scene fades out as Laurel and Izzy start to get it on.
* ''Film/AnotherMe'': Fay and Drew are seen kissing, undressing, then moving onto the bed. Then the scene cuts to them in bed together later.
* Parodied in ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo'', when Cecilia and Tom Baxter (a movie character who escaped from his movie) kiss and Tom keeps expecting a FadeToBlack, because that always happens in the sex scenes of the movie he inhabits.
-->'''Tom:''' How fascinating. You make love without fading out?\\
'''Cecilia:''' Yes.\\
'''Tom:''' Well, I can't wait to see this!
* ''Film/{{Contact}}'': Ellie and Joss kiss, then are seen talking in bed together after they clearly had sex offscreen.
* ''Film/BonnieAndBonnie'': As Yara and Kiki start to have sex, the scene fades away to afterward with them lying on the bed together.
* ''Film/TheArcher'': While on the lam, Lauren and Rebecca kiss but then the scene cuts to the next day, with it being implied they had sex.
* ''Film/TheGuard'': Gerry is about to have sex with the prostitutes, then the scene shifts to something else, and this returns after they've done it.
* When Orpheus and Eurydice make love in ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', after a couple shots of them frolicking it cuts to Orpheus's bedside motion lamp going at a fast speed to indicate the passage of time.
* Judy and Scottie embrace passionately late into ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. The next scene is of him waiting for her to finish dressing for dinner. It's not hard to imagine that they had sex in the unseen interim.
* ''Film/FreshmanYear'': CJ tells Marcella she could join him in the shower. The scene fades out, CJ can't remember it happened (being drunk at the time) and then it's soon related that they had sex.

* ''Film/CassanovaWasAWoman'': Cassanova returns to have sex with Lola, and then the scene cuts, showing them lying together afterward in bed saying how good it was.
* ''Film/WomenIsLosers'': Celina decides to have sex with Mateo, kisses him and then the scene ends, but it's made clear they did afterward (as she gets pregnant).
* ''Film/YoungHearts'': After Harper and Tilly decide to have sex, he gets a condom before the scene ends. The subsequent sex they have also takes place entirely offscreen, which makes sense as they're teenagers.

* ''Film/AllCheerleadersDie'': When Tracy and Maddy sleep together in the woods, we see them kissing on the ground while they take their clothes off as the scene cuts away. The next time we see them, they're stepping out of the woods with smiles on their faces.

* Occurs a few times in the tales of ''Literature/CiaphasCain'', as the chapter ends on a suggestive comment and the next one starts a day or so later. At one point, Cain's LoveInterest Amberley (who is the InUniverse editor of the stories) cuts out a section because "it covers personal matters of no interest to anyone else".

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNKq5uDywk#t=67m23s this scene]] in the MadeForTVMovie ''Deadly Care'' Creator/CherylLadd has a one night stand with a guy.

* The "Love Suite" scenes of ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpaV3KillingHarmony'' fade to black when they're completed, although it's sometimes left ambiguous what Shuichi and the person he met with did. In the case of Shuichi and his ImpliedLoveInterest Kaede Akamatsu, it's all but stated they made love.

* Believe it or not, this shows up in ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'', a children's TV web series with [[ParentalBonus plenty of treats for the adults watching]]. In a Valentine's Day episode, Ken's rival Ryan imagines himself giving Barbie various presents for the holiday, and Barbie gushing over how wonderful he is. In the last fantasy, Ryan and Barbie are alone together in a cozy room, complete with fireplace and bearskin rug. Barbie slowly approaches Ryan...who immediately turns to the audience and remarks that "this fantasy is too good to share," ending our view of the scene. [[{{What Do You Mean Its For Kids}} Yep, kids watched this.]]

* ''Film/AllheerleadersDie'': When Tracy and Maddy sleep together in the woods, we see them kissing on the ground while they take their clothes off as the scene cuts away. The next time we see them, they're stepping out of the woods with smiles on their faces.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the sixth episode, a fully-clothed Louis and a nude Lestat are immersed in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence violent foreplay]], and the camera pans away from their frenzied reunion to a crying Antoinette smoking a cigarette outside of her own home.

* ''Literature/LancelotTheKnightOfTheCart''--part of the Myth/ArthurianLegend, written in the 1170s or early 1180s--is best known for being the earliest story to feature a relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere. They spend a signle night together, and the sex is unambiguous, but not smutty.

* Literature/{{Twilight}}: In ''Breaking Dawn'', Edward and Bella arrive at their honeymoon destination. She [[ShowerScene takes a shower]] and goes out on the beach where Edward is, dressed only in a ModestyTowel. She [[DressHitsFloor takes her towel off]], he pulls her into his arms and... Oh look, it's the next morning.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'', a {{Horny Devil|s}} teaches a class on how to "influence" people. We don't see her "lecture", just the male characters' reactions.

* It's [[TakeOurWordForIt implied]] that after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66E5csbGsF4 this XTRa Pine commercial]] that the Cleaninghunk takes the housewife upstairs to do [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow some cleaning in her bedroom]].

* In one panel of a ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', Miss Buxley -- who's [[ReadyForLovemaking wearing only]] an open robe and [[LingerieScene black bra and panties]] -- calls General Halftrack to tell him that she can't come in to work because she needs to have her [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow plumbing and heating repaired]]:

* In ''Candy Stripe Nurses'', Candice Rialson goes to a patient's room to [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow spend time with him]] and then, in the next scene, she's naked in his bed with the [[ModestyBedsheet bedsheets pulled up to her stomach]]. [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]].

%%* In ''The Young Nurses'', Matt has a [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow physical therapy session]] with Nurse Kitty in the hydrotherapy tub.

'''Jesse:''' We had clothes on. I had [[WalkingSwimsuitScene my bathing suit]] and I gave her a T-shirt and boxers. And I don't remember too much after that. I had a few glasses of wine. [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow I know we ended falling asleep in my bed]] and the next thing I know, it's the morning.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Happens quite a lot whenever Nancy Gribble goes off with John Redcorn for her "[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow migraine treatments]]".