In many ways, intimacy coordination doesn’t seem all that different from blocking, an essential part of any film or television shoot. Sex scenes require a specific sense of physical coordination ...

After the height of the #MeToo movement, intimacy coordinators — specialists making sure actors and others on set feel comfortable while filming intimate scenes — became more of the norm.

Such "intimacy co-ordinators" have become more common on film and TV shoots since 2017's #MeToo movement and its widespread accounts of on-set harassment. They're meant, among other tasks ...