This holiday season, Lifetime is hoping to score big time in the Christmas movie competition, with what it’s promoting as the channel’s first-ever Christmas movie sex scene. The movie, titled A Cowboy Christmas Romance, will feature real estate “closer” Lexie (Jana Kramer) knocking boots with her horse-whispering love interest Coby (Adam Senn). A Cowboy Christmas Romance? More like A Reverse Cowgirl Christmas Romance, #amirite?

Even Lifetime Christmas movies have to evolve eventually, it turns out. I mean, not the part where a workaholic city slicker returns to her small hometown where she meets a handsome single dad who teaches her the meaning of Christmas and they fall in love. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is that, for the first time, these love birds are actually going to have sex.

Lifetime’s upcoming A Cowboy Christmas Romance will be the first Lifetime Christmas movie with an actual sex scene, according to the movie’s star Jana Kramer. “When I read it, I was like, ‘Well, this is gonna be interesting,’” said Kramer, who was pregnant during filming, on her Whine Down podcast. “I’m like, ‘How are we gonna do this with the baby belly?’”

Without giving too much away, Kramer went on, “We’re on this—spoiler alert—he lays me down on some hay, and then we, you know…and then, you know, obviously, it’s still Lifetime, it’s still family. But it was pushing limits there too.”

TV Christmas movies are famously chaste, whether they’re produced by Lifetime, Hallmark, Netflix, or elsewhere. At Hallmark, in fact, no sex scenes is a matter of policy. As one scriptwriter told Entertainment Weekly, “Any sexual is too sexual.”

But then, outside of the holiday season, Lifetime has always been a bit more risqué than its cookie-cutter competitor.

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So my first question is whether Lifetime adding an actual sex scene instead of an implied one entices you to be more likely to watch that movie over a more chaste one? I get it, the holidays make people horny. No judgment if adding a literal roll in the hay to a Christmas movie hits the spot on any given Saturday night. Do your thang.

My next question is what does “It’s still family” and “pushing limits there too.” mean? My 9-year-old loves watching Hallmark movies with my mom. He’s at that age where something “pushing limits” isn’t going to go over his head. Last week, the Beatles song, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” came on and my younger son asked, “Do what in the road?” Before I could think of an answer that wasn’t, “Paul wrote a song about seeing monkeys doing it,” my older son responded, “Oh, you know, like, smoochy kiss and stuff.” So yeah, those limits are narrow, the line is fine. Still, there are plenty of other movies and networks to turn on (pun intended) if you want to watch a successful, career-minded woman living in a big city give it all up to move back to her hometown so she can hook up with a local.

A Cowboy Christmas Romance premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. It will be available for streaming on Sunday, December 10.

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