Pregnant Sex: More Taboo Breaking on 'Girls'

With only a few episodes of Girls left, it was as if Lena Dunham took on the personal challenge of breaking as many TV taboos as possible, especially in the bedroom. Showing naked, pregnant Hannah wasn't enough for this groundbreaking series, so the April 2 episode showed naked, pregnant Hannah having sex on Girls. Despite Dunham trying her darndest to change the landscape, the graphic and realistic nature of sex on Girls is still sadly pretty taboo on television and in movies. But HBO series isn't afraid to get real, and it upped the stakes a level by portraying pregnant sex on Girls. And while I never not expected Girls to go out with a bang, I'll say that Dunham managed to surprise me with her intrepid sex scenes once again.

The pregnant sex in "What Will We Do This Time About Adam?" came courtesy of Hannah's short-lived and bittersweet (or should I say sweetbitter?) reunion with Adam. While I had previously theorized that Hannah and Adam would get back together on Girls and hadn't necessarily viewed it as a bad thing, I knew in my gut something was terribly wrong with this scenario once it started to unfold. Beyond their general dysfunctional behavior, that's a testament to the writing of Dunham and Judd Apatow and the performances of Dunham and Adam Driver. Perhaps it was another goal of Dunham's to show these two characters having sex one final time before the Girls series finale, but while Adam and Hannah getting back together (albeit briefly) gave us pregnant sex on TV, it didn't help to develop them anymore as people — except to prove that you can't recreate the past.

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