Intimacy coordinator revealed how actors stop themselves from getting aroused during sex scenes

An intimacy co-ordinator has revealed how to stop actors from having an embarrassing moment while filming intimate scenes.

Acting can be a very unusual job - after all few jobs require you to be portraying what can be very emotionally or physically intimate moments with your colleagues.

Intimacy co-ordinators have grown in popularity in recent years.

The aim of the job is to make sure that everyone involved in the scene feels comfortable, as well as actually helping them to portray the scene as well as possible.

This is a professional environment though, and even though there are lights everywhere and crew watching, things can happen.

While an actor understands that the sex scene they're filming is pretend certain parts of their body might not, which could lead to an awkward moment on set.

Haney opened up about how they deal with certain scenarios on set (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

And an intimacy co-ordinator has now shared how to deal with this if it happens.

Brooke M. Haney is an intimacy co-ordinator nwho has worked on several projects, including Elsbeth, Mayor of Kingstown and Harlem.

Speaking to US Weekly, Haney shared that the combination of a crew, lights, and the professional setting mean that this isn't as common occurrence as you might think.

They said: “Here’s the thing - this isn’t actually very common. We’re at work, right? With the lights bearing down, microphones, a couple of cameras in your face, director, DP [director of photography] and other necessary crew watching on monitors, it’s just not that sexy."

But despite all that, as we mentioned before, sometimes the body just reacts to things despite us not wanting it to do that.

"However, sometimes bodies have physiological responses that are outside of our control," Haney explained.

Sometimes the body just reacts (Maria Korneeva/Getty)

So, what can be done to resolve this problem in a professional setting and minimize the embarrassment?

After all, it's not like someone can just go and take a cold shower in the middle of filming.

An erection is caused by blood flow to the penis, so Haney explained that if you can divert blood flow away from there then things will calm down.

"When that does happen, I tell the actor to do a few push-ups or some jumping jacks," they said. "That moves the blood to a different location and we’re all good.”

While Haney acknowledged that they have seen some onscreen romances become real-world ones, they added that their job is to keep things professional.

“One of the jobs of an intimacy coordinator is to make sure that we are making everything on set be work, and part of that can be ‘closure practices,’ particularly when I work with younger actors," they said.

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