Sexiest TV Scenes of 2017 

Perhaps the most literal of the Starz series’ Coming to America interludes, this gorgeously shot, incredibly hot interlude between down-on-his-luck salesman Salim and a jinn-turned-taxi-driver was a meditation on the beauty of connection… via otherworldly, full-frontal, flaming-schlong sex.

We haven’t been able to look at the bunker the same way since Oliver and Felicity’s flashback coitus on the lair’s mats. Also, the way he spun her around mid-makeout? HOT.

Purely to short out the bombs implanted in their skulls —

— Grace and Arthur “met cute” by getting their adrenaline pumping with some back seat (and front seat, and between seats, and some of these are euphemisms) action, whilst barreling toward the finish line (again, euphemism).

All Marcus and his new friend Peter did aboard that boat was kiss, but (and we mean this literally) good God almighty! For all too brief a moment, the excommunicated priest — who’d just bared his soul, if nothing else — acted on his desires and gave in to the palpable attraction crackling between the men. Props to Ben Daniels and guest star Christopher Cousins for creating such a believable, affecting bond in such a short time. 

Aiming to distract the goon who was putting the squeeze on her and beau Ray, Nikki Swango rose from her candlelit bath tub wearing nothing more than a few suds to… um, what were we saying? Whatever the case, a

upgrade from Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Salami Sex Scene of 2016.

You knew it was going to happen. We knew it was going to happen. Heck, the entire army of white walkers likely knew it was going to happen. Still, when Jon and Daenerys finally made the dragon with two backs, it was still a thing of booty beauty to behold… despite the pesky fact that she’s his aunt.

We never would’ve guessed that one of the year’s most affecting sex scenes would’ve involved a eunuch and a language geek, but the heart wants what it wants. And if you’re one of those who spent time on social media debating whether or not what transpired between Grey Worm and Missandei was actually sex, we feel so sorry for you (and even sorrier for your partners).

No GIF out there quite does this sequence justice, but we’ll venture to say that not since Tom Cruise played with the boys has a volleyball game featured such pretty, nicely-shaped people bump-set-spiking a Voit.

Shaken after learning — at her parents’ vow-renewal ceremony, no less! — that her dad once had been unfaithful to her mom, Molly gave in to temptation and sought exceedingly sexy comfort in the arms of Dro, the longtime pal whose open marriage she’d previously declared a deal-breaker. In the long run, the decision to hook up would almost surely prove to have been a bad one. But in that moment, damn, was it good for her. (Just look at the expression on her face!)

Liv helped turn Chase’s fantasy of having sex on his hotel desk, on full display in front of the window — “A bang with a view,” she called it — into such a steamy reality that we’re surprised the glass didn’t fog up.

After barely escaping their latest skirmish a bit scathed, Walt and Vic got to comparing scars — the best foreplay for badasses — before surrendering to desires ignored for too many years. But even sexier than the minute-long montage of entwined limbs was the souls that were bared in the afterglow, as they reconciled their difficult pasts with a brighter future.

Trapped indoors by a blizzard, Dev and his Italian friend/crush Francesca let their hips do the talking when they danced together to an old Italian song, clad only in their jammies.

We’re not entirely sure what exactly Yaphit was doing to Claire (though we can imagine), but Penny Johnson Jerald surely sold us on the notion that it felt out-of-this-world.

, waiting half a season for the Frasers to reunite was worth it if it meant watching their glorious, very naked homecoming in “A. Malcolm.” “Do it now, and don’t be gentle,” Claire ordered, and who were we — or Jamie — to argue?

Only on the Starz drama could inquiry about one’s suddenly absent fiancée be considered foreplay. And with Leo Soul’s “Right Now” bumping on the soundtrack, is it any wonder they smashed right there on her kitchen counter?

“You know what I like to do when I’ve had a bad day?” Tulip said to beau Jesse after, as luck would have it, a particularly lousy one. “I like to go in the bathroom and lock the door behind me.” So, with the naughtiest sort of mischief sparkling in her eyes, she did exactly that, redefining foreplay by forcing Jesse to break down the door to get to her so they could make the kinda love that was sure to trash the rest of their hotel room.

A sex montage with three of the show’s leading couples, plus a wedding?! This was so hot, we don’t even care that one of the people involved was actually that person’s evil twin in disguise! (If you don’t watch the show, don’t even ask. It’s a long story.)

We were excited to find out that Colton Haynes and Charlie Carver would be returning for

’s final season, but we were not prepared for their characters’ big post-battle kiss.

No, Liza and Charles didn’t actually get to finish this late-night office rendezvous — damn you, Empirical janitor! — but it was steamy while it lasted. The power of cupcakes, people.