love scene

love scene (plural love scenes)

1. A segment in a film or television program in which the characters engage in sexual activity.
2. A view, or pictorial or written representation, of romantic behavior.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Some of these inlaid pictures represent love-scenes with a childlike simplicity and freedom of manner which would not commend itself to the taste of the present day.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:

     “If there is a drop of red blood in the man the count will break in upon a very pretty love scene in about fifteen minutes from now.”