Conceptions of sex in movies about the post-apocalypse

Abstract

The paper deals with ways of representing sexual relations in movies about the post-apocalypse. Different forms of sexual relations which occur in a post-apocalyptic setting are considered with regard to two types of communities/societies which emerge after the end of the world. These movies indicate how much the idea of an instinctual, natural, biological sexuality is widespread in popular imagination - in the post-apocaypse sex is represented as a motivational force on par with hunger.