"In a middling, three-star review, one publication bemoaned the show's three-an-episode sex scenes as "undeniably tedious" (the same publication offered a similarly lukewarm review to Bridgerton season two for having less of the "unusually explicit" sex scenes of season one). The stars themselves have been forced to offer a defence. "There are no d***s in the show. There's just a lot of butt," co-lead Hudson Williams recently told Andy Cohen. "If that were straight intimate scenes, it wouldn't be talked about in the way it is.""
"Robbie Taylor Hunt, an intimacy coordinator specialising in queer media with credits on Pillion and Heartstopper Forever, says that the historical dearth of queer intimacy on screen means that any such content "ends up under the microscope a lot more" than similar, heterosexual scenes. "From straight audiences, they are more shocked or interested in it as this strange, different thing," he says."
Heated Rivalry follows two ice hockey rivals who become illicit lovers, their relationship hindered by the hypermasculine culture of professional hockey. The show contains frequent explicit gay sex scenes featuring idealized, highly sexualized bodies. Responses span religious denunciation, claims that the scenes are unrealistic, and arguments that there are simply too many. Critical reviews have called recurring sex scenes tedious, prompting cast defenses. Industry professionals argue that the historical lack of queer intimacy on screen causes greater scrutiny of such depictions. Some commentators attribute heightened attention to heterosexual curiosity and difficulty separating queer identity from sexual activity.
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