Mia Freedman

It's like renaissance but with fingering.

A few recent examples, Nicole Kidman's erotic thriller Baby Girl, you might remember, face down.

If people haven't seen that yet, please go and see it.

It's so interesting.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

A lot of fingering in that.

Also Anne Hathaway's character in the movie The Idea of You when she's with that younger guy who's like a Harry Styles-esque character in the boy band and she meets him at a hotel and their first sexual encounter happens.

starts with a really enthusiastic bout of fingering, which she likes a lot.

And also, not to be outdone, Bridgerton, with the famous carriage scene between Penelope and Colin, Nicola Coghlan's character, you might remember.

A lot of petticoats to get through.

It's very true.

Pantalons.

It's true.

What's interesting when we've been looking at the rise of fingering, and I've been thinking about it a little bit.

Yeah, come on.

Cultural critics.

Fingering's back.

And I think there's a couple of reasons for that.

The first is that no one has to be nude.

Both parties can be fully clothed, which is good for some of the parties involved might not want to be nude.