Scenes of a Sexual Nature is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Ed Blum and starring an ensemble cast which includes Ewan McGregor, Adrian Lester, Eileen Atkins, Andrew Lincoln, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, and Hugh Bonneville.

The film follows a series of seven loosely related stories of couples on Hampstead Heath in north London.

In talking about their past, they also discover that, nearly fifty years before, they had met romantically at that spot and that is why they both kept coming back.

They are bemused by the irony of meeting again, and have mixed feelings as they no longer represent an idealised partner in each other's minds.

Anna, a disturbed young woman with extreme mood swings, is crying and arguing with her boyfriend Ludo, who eventually walks off, breaking up with her.

They discuss a variety of issues like a traditional couple, but in the end it transpires that Esther is an escort and is paid for her time with Louis but never had sex with him stating that was never the arrangement.

"[3] Scenes of a Sexual Nature was filmed on a minimal budget (estimated at £500,000)[2] and the actors were offered Equity minimum and a percentage of profits as their salary.

[4] The filmmakers presented the project to investors a mere two weeks before shooting began, at which point the actors had already signed on.

[7] Empire magazine gave it 2 stars, saying it was "good in patches but insubstantial, the only discernible moral is that Hampstead Heath is a nice place to be on a sunny day".

[10] In a retrospective review for The Guardian in 2020, Leslie Felperin wrote that while some of the comic subplots did not age well, more dramatic storylines such as the one involving the blind date and the gay couple manage "to achieve a Goldilocks balance between sweet, sad and sour.

"[11] Felperin concluded the film "[shows] how much tonalities and expectations for British drama and comedy have changed since the mid noughties.