Betty Gilpin’s Lina isn’t afraid to get creative in the bedroom – or in this case, the car.

In section 7 of Three womenStarz’s adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s best-selling nonfiction book, Lina turns cunning during her affair with her former high school flame, Aidan (played by NCIS: Origins’ Austin Stowell). The pair meet in a parking lot and things quickly become flowing in Lina’s four-door sedan, where viewers are treated to a kind of intimacy rarely seen on TV.

“I’ve done a lot of sex scenes before,” Gilpin tells TVLine. “And I think I’ve always had a sort of practical, sort of shrugging realism about them… And my job as a woman in these is to lie, basically, and look as perky and small and young and shiny as possible.”

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Gilpin explains the regular sex scene process as an all-hands-on-deck effort to “help cover my pimples and turn me on and hide in a way where I look like the music video version of myself.”

IN Three womenGilpin’s experience, however, has been different. “This was so the opposite of that. (Three women is about) female desire, so obviously the sex scenes — they didn’t even feel like that — they felt like real scenes and some of the most important scenes in the show.”

Gilpin continues to call Three womens approach to intimacy, “beautiful”, “exploratory” and “interesting”.

While we love this fresh take on female lust, it’s hard to watch episode 7 — the moment when Lina opens a caramel-filled chocolate bar and massages the contents onto Aidan’s penis — and not wonder: Um… how? The camera closes in on the action, closely following the movement of Lina’s hands in a way that is startling, but not entirely unfamiliar. It’s similar to how a camera can pan and linger on certain parts of a scantily clad woman – but we’ve never seen the male gaze turn so directly inward … and so long. What are the mechanics of such a scene? Could it have been AI?

“No, it wasn’t AI. No! F–k AI,” reveals Gilpin.

Press PLAY on the video above to watch Gilpin talk more about intimacy in Three womenthen hit the comments with your thoughts: Did episode 7 absolutely freak you out?!