Musicals and Sex

A brief timeline of sex on stage in musicals through the decades, from the wink-wink nudge-nudge ribaldry of Cole Porter's 1920s to the high-flown metaphor of Spring Awakening to the relatively damp squibs of explicit discussion of sex in musicals of the 2010s and '20s. As with all things in art, what's important is less what's being said than what's not being said, and musical theater has always been adept at artful evasion, to delightful effect.SONGS FEATURED:"Baby It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter"They All Laughed" from Shall We Dance"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" from Leave It to Me!"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" from Paris"The Tennis Song" from City of Angels"Happiness" from Passion"Johanna (Mea Culpa)" from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"I Believe" from Spring Awakening"You Can Be As Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)" from Avenue Q"Let It Go" from The Full Monty"First Impressions" from First Date"But in the Morning, No" from DuBarry Was a Lady"The Guilty Ones" from Spring Awakening"Aquarius" from Hair"Overture" from New Girl in Town"Easy Mark" from The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)