«Familieporno», skriver Dinnesen og Kau lett foraktelig i sin danske filmhistorie om Sengekant-filmene. «Sjove optrin, skøre påfund, glad erotik, komiske scener, søde piger, bare bryster, frække numser; alt i farver», annonserte distributøren. Skandinavisk publikum strømmet til dette danske fenomenet tilsynelatende fornøyde.
This article discusses a genre that had its breakthrough in the 1970s: the sex comedy. The Danish Bedside series played to full houses in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. These films are discussed with relation to the changing film censorship institutions. In Norway, a few of these films were forbidden but later released. Almost every Bedside film had its most explicit sex scenes cut down before screening was allowed. In addition to discussing the censors' reception of the films, the article examines how the Bedside series was reviewed in the press. The films themselves are further discussed as popular culture, and some features explaining their popularity are pointed out. These films, showing happy, guilt-free sex, sex for fun and joy, and with strong, lustful women, represented something new in Nordic film culture. Earlier, representations of sexual activity in films had dealt with the darker sides of sex, such as prostitution, rape and despair, as seen for instance in the films of Ingmar Bergman. His films, however, had documented a strong interest among the mass audience in sexual representations on film. The seven Bedside sex comedies were able to meet audience interests in quite a different way.