In 2017, the world fell in love with Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Call Me By Your Name – a queer coming-of-age tale of lust, love, and heartbreak. For many, one particular scene stuck out more than others: that is, Timothée Chalamet fucking a peach. Now – as if we didn’t already know – a study has revealed that this scene is one of the top ten hottest in modern movie and TV history.
Conducted over two weeks by FandomSpot, an online platform for fandoms, the study provided 100 people with heart rate monitors and asked them to sit in a room alone and watch the 50 scenes that FandomSpot’s community previously voted the sexiest. As proven by Love Island’s heart rate challenge (OK, and other scientific studies), when people are aroused their heart rates speed up – which is how FandomSpot determined the sexiness of each scene in its study.
Call Me By Your Name’s peach scene came in at number four, with people’s heart rates increasing by an average of 29 per cent. TBC if there’s a correlation between the horniness of a clip of Chalamet having sex with a piece of fruit, and the rise in popularity of homemade sex toys during lockdown.
Attraction to household objects aside, the scene that turned people on the most was the final sex scene from Normal People, which increased heart rates by 38 per cent. The pottery scene from Ghost was next, raising heart rates by 35 per cent, followed by the bed breaking scene from Jessica Jones. The only other queer scene on the list is Alex and Piper’s first shower scene in Orange Is The New Black, which increased heart rates by 27 per cent.
The results also showed that viewers liked authentic sex scenes the most – for example when Marianne’s bra gets stuck over her head in Normal People – raising their heart rates by an average of 35 per cent.
Watch the CMBYN peach scene below, and look back at Normal People’s intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien explaining how she created the show’s captivating sex scenes here.