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to embarrass my parents when we visited.

My granddad thought it was hilarious, my mother, less so.

in the front room, was getting to the age whereby i knew full well what was going on and just took a beamer most of the time

and we were watching the second episode of the second series, I think.

when Walt came up behind Anna, ostensibly to cry on her shoulder, my sister stood up and said, "I'm just going to make a cup of tea.", and seconds later it all made sense.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/family-watching-movie-whiteknuckles-it-through-une,32299/

more like TITanic eh?

The morning-after bit where Judith strides in full frontal was a little embarrassing, but it was in the cinema so at least the lights were off. Otherwise, I'd say my folks were fairly OK with sex scenes: like fitz says in the OP, my mother was far more concerned about swearing - would always tut when anyone said 'the F word'.

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I was probably about 14 or so, with some much younger cousins. Can't remember at what point my dad switched it off, but it was not a very pleasant experience (funny in retrospect though).

I had a TV in my bedroom later and used to watch those Channel 5 films on a Friday night, I was sure I was doing it entirely secretly but I bet my dad knew what I was up to.

I could generally avoid watching potentially embarrassing films with the folks. Lots of examples: Don't Look Now, Officer & A Gentleman, Basic Instinct. oh, and especially Carrie: still a winner nearly 40 years later :)

It freaked my mum the fuck out.

Mostly because after watching the film, my six-year-old brother kept wearing his cycle helmet and saying that he felt tingly all over.

Stallone's films from that point onward were banned. :-(

but when my girlfriend and I first got together and she came to see me at my Dad's house, he was out at the pub and we were watching Wild At Heart. He came home just as Willem Dafoe did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUtn7e05C8M

Because of the bizarre layout of our sofas we couldn't see him, he was pretty drunk and taking ages to take his shoes off. As soon as the scene was finished he stood up and said "Well, I'll leave youse to it" in the best approximaion of amused nonchalance he could muster. There was no good way to handle any of this.

I remember telling my folks I was going to stay up late as I wanted to watch a film that was coming on the telly. It was Crash, the David Cronenberg sex and cars one, not the shitty LA 'race' drama.

Anyway, my old dear decided to sit up with me and watch the start, if you're familiar with the film you'll know this is the air hangar scene. She had a massive smile on her face and went to bed leaving me to it, no doubt saying something cheeky.

She was also around when I was watching Goodfellas one time and was particularly tickled when Lorranie Bracco gets some cash off Ray Liotta and decides to go down on him in the kitchen.

FUCKING MORTIFIED I WAS, BOTH TIMES

and he rates episodes by the amount of boobs he sees.

she loved it

of walking in to the only moment of any given film that had some sex or nudity in it. 1-second flash of boobs in the entire movie? Mum will walk in and ask what this filth I'm watching is.

with triple-breasted woman.

dad to siblings: he shouldn't be watching this!

siblings: why?

dad: that woman's exposing three of her breasts!

siblings: one of them's fake, dad.

me: which one?

To be fair it was Jamie Lee Curtis and so he did us a favour. Thinking back it was probably just an excuse for him to watch it again while he pressed pause on the VHS.

However the worst was when we all sat down to watch The Tall Guy which has a pretty loud sex scene. I think I was about 13 but my 9 year old sister had to have her eyes covered by my Mum! Quite cringe-worthy as a bottle of milk explodes under Emma Thompson's arse cheek.