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There's definitely some works that have unnecessary sex scenes; it's more obvious in movies, though. A lot of the time, the entire romance subplot is utterly unnecessary, and sometimes horribly executed on top of that. Remember The Hobbit, now imagine they also had a sex scene!
In at least a few cases, the "unnecessary" sex scene is necessary to get the film the rating that the director feels is appropriate for the film, because violence and adult themes don't always get the rating they probably should and the MPAA is a bunch of prudes about sex.
Damn, that's fucked up.
Well, if a scene is just unnecessary and out of place, that's bad, but I mean, kind of every unnecessary scene(?) is. Idk, I just know many instances of sex scenes that I'd consider rather important for the plot (e.g. in Black Mirror), and just erasing them would make the art worse.
That would feel weird in Hobbit because it's a story he wrote for his kid. At the same time, I find George RR Martin's critique of that aspect of LOTR valid. He said something along the lines of "It's a neat world, but it doesn't feel real. Can you imagine dwarves having sex?" Meanwhile, due to its grit, the GoT world feels very believable. Humans are messy, primal creatures at the core.
There's works with sex scenes that make sense, and works where they don't. A Song Of Ice And Fire is definitely an example of the former. On top of that, both the books and the TV show had tons of time, which is in stark contrast to most movies and many shorter books.