Hollywood enjoys an insatiable sex drive. Over the years, it's liberated countless starlets from their underwear and splashed mountains of nubile flesh across the screen. But there's much more to all that celluloid sex than mere voyeuristic thrills.

For a start, many of these saucy scenes can provide you with plenty of kinky inspiration for the bedroom.

Significantly, movie sex is a big hit with female audiences, according to Men's Health's resident sex coach Jacqueline Hellyer. She insists that women are just as susceptible as blokes to visual stimulation - the difference is they're a lot more discerning. "Men's sexuality tends to be simpler," Hellyer explains. "Show most guys some great breasts and they're instantly turned on. That's why men like porn because it's instantly focused on the sex, whereas women generally prefer a little more context."

Hollywood movies offer precisely this "context", delivering the saucy bits along with proper storylines and believable characters. With this in mind, we asked Women's Health readers to nominate their most erotic movie sex scenes. After sorting through more than 2000 votes, scenes from five films dominated the poll, giving a revealing insight into the female mind.

Here, Hellyer analyses why these five scenes prove such a tantalising turn-on and explains how you can recreate the action in your own X-rated double bill.

So to start your foreplay, just press play. (click on the links below:)

#5 ATONEMENT

#4 SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE

#3 TEAM AMERICA

#2 9 1/2 WEEKS

#1 BASIC INSTINCT


Other movies nominated in the survey included: Secretary (James Spader gives Maggie Gyllenhaal a bath before laying her down naked on a bed surrounded by orchids), Out of Sight (erotic tension rockets sky-high as Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney find themselves in very close proximity in the boot of a getaway car), Little Children (Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson lock lips in the laundry and are soon having frantic sex against the tumble-dryer) and A History of Violence (Maria Bello surprises husband Viggo Mortensen when she digs out her old cheerleading outfit).