"Forbidden Love" video clip update: All in a day's work

Well the name of the show Forbidden Love. When Christian told the world that he and Olli were an item it stopped being a secrent, hence, it stopped being a Forbidden Love/A Love in Secret. By VL standards, they are boring now and their sex life is no longer as interesting as the couples who are just starting and still forbidden.

Personally, I think there is very little chance of them having any more sex scenes unless they develop a serious problem. VL isn't prudish but it isn't very gratuitous with sex scenes either. 

For example, take Lydia and Sebastian, a storyline that has gone on since she joined the show in January 2008. Right now their sex scenes tally is: 

() Their first time when they became a couple

() When they first reunited (after Sebastian had slept with her mother during their break)

() One in about a month when they get together again after the abduction. 

They have had a lot of other romantic scenes like Sebastian renting a ballroom so he can dance just with her, or him buying a billboard announcing their love or them having a bubble bath together and him brushing her hair afterword. But when it comes to flat out love scenes the tally stands as listed. 

Even worse are Leo and Sarah who have been in a storyline for _three_ years now and they have been a couple since October. They had many steamy make-out sessions back when they were still a forbidden couple. But their pure sex scenes tally is as follows:

() One steamy and long sex scene when they had sex together for the first time

() One sex scene when they reunited and officially came a couple

Then there is also a sorta sex scene where Leo's wife had a nightmare vision of them in bed together, but it was mostly just a glimpse and the two of them looking evil. Ever since they got married we have seen them in bed (in a sexual context) once where they announced their intention to have sex and she kissed his throat in a mostly awkward way to show being excited/happy about something and then the camera panned away. (and lets remember, this is a couple that drove the main storyline of the show for over 2 years)  

Again, they have had romantic no-sex moments, like Leo buying her a horse or them going to Paris together and spending the night together in bed fully clothed and looking at each other or intimate moments like having a serious discussion while he is sitting in the bathtub and angsting about his life. But yeah their tally of actual sex scenes, divided by three years? Not that impressive. 

One of the most passionate couples in VL history was Leo and Cecile. They had three sex scenes while they were still a Forbidden couple, then one when they officially became a couple. And then they had two more, but those two happened in story context because Leo was in a wheelchair after an accident and the first scene established that things "down there" weren't working anymore and the other scene was there to announce to the fans that "down there" was now fully functional again. 

Christian and Coco had one lenghty double sex scene when the first got together and then didn't get any sex scenes anymore till Olli came and introduced additional sexual tension. Again, they had sort of ersatz sex scenes like Christian taking Coco horseback riding or inviting her to a romantic day in the park. 

One of the few couples which managed to keep up a decent amount of sex scenes even after they became an official couple was the lesbian couple of Carla and Susanne but IMO they were a special case because they introduced an aritificial forbiddenness through Susanne's father disapproving and through a sort of simmering triangle with Lars which went on for a long time (after relationship sex included Carla doing a sex striptease for Susanne after Susanne had a huge jealousy scare, them going to a special decorated winter cabin and having sex to announce trouble because Carla was leaving for two months and in the meantime Susanne started her thing with Lars, them having a bubble bath sexy scene (you could even see most of "Susanne's boob) because Carla was feeling unsexy and undesirable because of her pregnancy). 

Meanwhile Carla's other big romance (with Hanna) also had exactly three sex scenes. The first time, the one where they get together and the one where they get caught. After that it was mostly romantic ersatz scenes, like Carla taking Hanna to a spa and dressing up as a guy (making Hanna laugh) so they could avoid a person who was spying on them or them spending a perfect day on the beach. And of course, the relationship was forbidden from beginning to end because Carla's father and the public never found out about it till after Hanna had died. So they spent the entirety of their relationship in intimate secrecy. 

To me the problem of Ollian isn't that there aren't as many sex scenes anymore (again on VL you are unlikely to have them unless it marks a major turning point in a story or is supposed to say something plot relevant (like, A has sex with B but is secretly thinking about C)), but that to me they sort of aren't very good at giving them those romantic ersatz scenes, probably because they have established that Christian doesn't like doing them (him telling Judith that it was wrong that she should have to prove her love for Constantin by doing something special for him) and on the other hand that Olli prefers being the target of romantic surprises.

That said, I think it would be too much to say that we haven't seen them in bed since Gregor caught them. We saw them (non-sexually) in bed before the big fight  when Olli came home from partying and snuggled up to Christian. We have Christian spinning Olli around and dropping him on the couch. And we have the scene right before Ibiza where Olli made avances to Christian in the bathroom and took his belt off before Chrisitian had to turn him down and we later had Christian coming home in an amorous mood but Olli being the one who is pissed and not in the mood. 

To me, you are unlikely to see them sexual and passionate if the show sees no plot related reason to show it. And as long as they are happy safe couple with nothing to prove there is gonna be no reason. They are not showing any of the established happy couples constantly going at it in the background of scenes. Those scenes are ususally only there if it has something to do with the story (like A and B are hiding; or B is hiding that he is secretly thinking about C, or C is jealous of A and B and spying on them, or C wants to take an incriminating picture of A and B).