It’s okay if ‘Shape of Water’ made you horny

Warning: This post is swimming in sexy spoilers. 

A fish-sex movie won big at the Oscars, and the bright spotlight seems to have heightened discomfort around the erotic interspecies romance at the center of The Shape of Water.

From film critics to Twitter, people appear most conflicted over what is arguably the film’s true climax: the sex scene between its mute female protagonist and a fish-man god. This derision and revulsion misses the point entirely.

Because, like Elisa, the mute maid working in a secret government facility played by Sally Hawkins, some left the theater sincerely wanting to fuck that fish-man monster. And if you stomached the movie’s overarching message, then that really shouldn’t gross you out.  Read more…

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