Are you a fan of shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal? There are plenty of reasons to watch the series created by television icon Shonda Rimes, including awesome characters and over-the-top stories. However, what most audiences tune in for is the last thing they’d admit to: all the fun, freaky sex!
Rimes’ shows have always toed the boundaries of what can and cannot be shown on network television. Accordingly, the shows have broadened the sexual horizons of its audiences, introducing plenty of vanilla fans to some downright kinky bedroom shenanigans.
Wondering just how kinky these shows got? Or maybe you’re a fan and want to go down a memory lane of really freaky television? Either way, we’ve got you covered…just keep reading to discover a steamy timeline of sex scenes in Shonda Rimes’ TV shows!
Grey’s Anatomy starts us off right
Grey’s Anatomy took the world by storm with its first episode. And the very first scene certainly got our attention in the naughtiest possible way. This 2005 episode kicked off with Meredith and Derek waking up after having had passionate, one-night stand sex (on the floor, no less).
This steamy scene certainly set the tone for what was to come, but Season 1 was relatively tame, often cutting away to something else right before characters got busy. Fortunately for frisky viewers everywhere, it didn’t take long for the onscreen action to get downright explicit in subsequent seasons.
And, to be clear, we were SO here for it!
Things heat up at the hospital
Starting with Season 2, Grey’s Anatomy got more sexually adventurous. Network limitations still curtailed how much outright sex we got to see onscreen. However, the series got away with showing us orgasmic bliss on the face of the doctors. And in 2006, that was a fairly big deal!
Later seasons got even more naughty by adding some dirty talk into the mix. For example, Season 4 features Mark and Callie getting it on while actively fantasizing about having a threesome. Considering how taboo threesomes are to most couples and how dirty talk is so taboo to most networks, this scene helped establish Grey’s Anatomy as a particularly transgressive TV show.