Got a particular set of skills? Because ‘sex choreographer’ is a real job

What do you want to be when you grow up?

An astronaut? A postman? A nuclear scientist? A sex choreographer? All of the above were sure to have been every little boy's and girl's dream back in the day. Who among us didn't imagine ourselves travelling the solar system, being trusted to deliver everybody else's post, or choreographing sex scenes for other people? Ideal professions, every last one of them. But if you, like all of us, were ever-so-slightly dismayed that you would never get to showcase your sex choreography talents because nobody would let you, never fear because sex choreographer is a legit real job. No, for real. It is. Yehuda Duenyas is one of them and he first started out in his role back in 2007. He told Refinery29 that he was asked by director Thomas Bradshaw to come in and choreograph some sex scenes for a graphic play he was working on. And, we suppose, he discovered he had a talent for it. Duenyas then choreographed some more sex for another play in 2015 (by the same director, mad for his graphic plays, he is). The job of sex choreographer doesn't sound easy though. Duenyas said that he does his best to create a "safe" place for the actors, in the similar way that people would hope to choreograph scenes of violence. He said:

"I think the same thing goes for sexuality and sexual choreography. "There's so much opportunity to get it wrong, to hurt someone's feelings, to blow through someone's boundaries, to trigger past things."

Theatre productions aren't the only mediums using sex choreographers though. The likes of Westworld and The Wolf of Wall Street have also apparently hired them to ensure that their riding is as believable as possible. So what are you waiting for? Dust off that CV ASAP.