These days, he maintains, people are so uninterested in sex that on-screen couplings are now written out by Hollywood producers before they’re even shot. “They ask, 'Do we really even need the sex?’ 'Can we fill the space with dazzling special effects instead and keep the family-friendly rating?’ ” They can and they do. They’ll blow up whole Chinese provinces, the White House and MI6’s HQ, and create humanoid species with which to populate the moon, but they won’t show a couple getting it on.