Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Westworld Sex Scenes: Maeve, Dolores, The Raj and the Pariah Orgy

Katja Herbers in the Westworld Raj scene (2:09). The other 10 scenes from the series are further down the page.

Westworld was HBO’s big swing after Game of Thrones: a theme park full of lifelike android hosts where rich guests can do whatever they like, until the hosts start to remember. It ran for four seasons from 2016 to 2022, and it was one of the most openly nude shows HBO ever made, because the hosts spend so much of their time naked on repair tables. I have put every sex and nude scene worth watching on this page: 11 clips in HD, each with its length and what actually happens, from Grace’s seduction in The Raj and the Pariah orgy to Maeve walking through the lab and Dolores in the diagnostic room. Thandiwe Newton has the most screen time here, so if she is why you came, see my Thandiwe Newton nude scenes page too.

Grace in The Raj: Katja Herbers Picks Her Own Fantasy (2:09)

The Raj, Season 2 | With: Katja Herbers

Season 2 opens a door we never saw in the first season: The Raj, Delos’s British India park, all silk, brass lamps and jungle outside the shutters. Grace, played by Katja Herbers, is a regular guest who knows exactly what she wants from the place. She walks into a lamplit room in a pale gold dress, a shirtless host is waiting for her, and for the next two minutes she runs the show: the slow circling, the teasing, the kiss, and then the two of them going down together among the cushions. It is the one scene in the whole series that plays like a real seduction rather than a lab or a brothel, and Herbers gives it a dry, amused edge that makes it far sexier than it has any right to be. What happens straight after it in that park is a lot less romantic.

Why put this one first? Because most of the nudity in Westworld happens under lab lights, with someone in a white coat holding a tablet. This is the one scene where a woman walks into the park for pleasure and gets exactly what she asked for, and it is the closest thing the series has to a classic HBO sex scene.

Every Other Sex and Nude Scene in Westworld

Here is the rest, roughly in the order it plays across the seasons. Season 1 has most of it, because that is where the show spends the most time in the labs and in Sweetwater.

The Pariah Orgy (0:46)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Extras, with Ben Barnes and Jimmi Simpson

Season 1, episode 5. Logan drags William to Pariah, the outlaw town, and they end up at a party in a candlelit hall where every corner has naked bodies in it. The camera drifts past couples and groups on velvet sofas and rugs while gold-painted guests and hosts watch from the edges. It is shot like a painting rather than a porn set: red light, candles, a slow camera and a party that never stops moving. It is the scene that told viewers in 2016 that this was going to be a very adult HBO show.

Maeve Wakes Up in the Lab (1:25)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Thandiwe Newton, Leonardo Nam

Season 1, episode 6. Maeve has worked out that she can wake herself up on the repair table, and this time she does it on purpose. She sits up, completely naked, and talks the lab tech Felix into showing her where she really lives. What follows is one of the best Thandiwe Newton scenes in the show: Maeve walking naked through the glass corridors of the Mesa, past hosts being built and repaired, taking it all in with a face that goes from disbelief to cold fury. Newton won an Emmy for this role, and this is the season where she earned it.

Maeve Runs Through the Mesa (1:06)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Thandiwe Newton

Season 1, episode 2. Maeve wakes up early in the middle of a repair, still naked, and runs. The whole clip is her stumbling through dark corridors and glass rooms, looking for a way out of a building she does not understand. It is the first time we see Maeve break out of her loop, and it is shot like a horror film: nude, barefoot and alone in the dark. From here on she starts asking real questions.

Maeve and Clementine in the Lab (1:02)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Thandiwe Newton, Angela Sarafyan, Sidse Babett Knudsen

Season 1, episode 7. Clementine, Sweetwater’s most popular girl, is in a lab chair being reprogrammed in front of the Delos executives, while Maeve, naked and supposedly switched off, stands nearby and watches it happen. Angela Sarafyan is topless in the chair, Thandiwe Newton is nude in the wider shots, and Sidse Babett Knudsen watches from behind the glass. It is not a sexy scene, it is a chilling one, and that is exactly why Westworld fans remember it.

Maeve on the Table (1:17)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Thandiwe Newton, Leonardo Nam

Season 1, episode 5. Felix is alone in the lab late at night trying to get a little robot bird to fly, and Maeve is lying naked on the steel table next to him. It is a quiet, almost funny scene: long shots of Newton stretched out on the slab and Felix fussing over his bird, until the bird lands on her finger. It is the moment the show starts to tip Maeve’s story from victim to player.

Dolores Talks to Ford (0:57)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Evan Rachel Wood, Anthony Hopkins

Season 1, episode 5. Dolores sits naked on a chair in a dark diagnostic room while Dr. Ford, played by Anthony Hopkins, sits across from her and asks questions. He takes her hand and studies her face. Evan Rachel Wood is nude in profile and in the wide shots, and the whole scene is about how still she can keep her face while she hides something from her maker. The hosts are always naked in these sessions, which is why Westworld has so much nudity that is not sex at all.

Dolores and Teddy in the White Room (0:32)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden

Season 2, episode 9. Teddy, played by James Marsden, stands shirtless in the dark, and Dolores stands naked in a bright white-tiled room, looking straight back. It is a short, quiet clip, but it is one of the few times the show lets the two lovers simply look at each other without a gun in the frame. Marsden is shirtless for most of it, and Wood is nude from the front in the white room.

Tessa Thompson as the New Charlotte (0:54)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Tessa Thompson, Jeffrey Wright

Season 2, episode 10. The big twist of the season finale: the Charlotte Hale who walks out of the park is not Charlotte any more. In this clip Tessa Thompson appears naked in a dark Delos room as a freshly made host body, before she gets dressed and becomes the person everyone expects. Thompson’s nude shots are brief and lit low, but this is the scene the whole of Season 3 is built on. For the rest of her career, see my Tessa Thompson page.

Dolores Behind the Glass (1:01)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton

Season 3, episode 6. Dolores has been captured and sits naked on a metal chair in a cold, glass-walled room while the people behind the glass, Maeve among them in a dark red suit, decide what to do with her. This is Season 3, with a bigger, sleeker look and a letterboxed frame, and Evan Rachel Wood spends most of the minute sitting very still, nude in profile, while everyone outside talks about her as if she were a hard drive.

Armistice Bathes in the River (0:45)

Westworld (HBO) | With: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Ed Harris, Clifton Collins Jr.

Season 1, episode 4. The Man in Black and Lawrence ride up to a river and find Armistice, Hector’s tattooed gunslinger, washing in the water. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal is topless from behind, with the snake tattoo that runs down her body on full view. It is short and it is mostly an introduction, but it is the scene everyone remembers Armistice by.

What I Left Out

A few clips that circulate under the Westworld name are not on this page. The first-episode scene where Elsie kisses Clementine while the host is frozen and cannot move is left out on purpose, and so is anything from the scenes where the Man in Black attacks Dolores. I also skipped Armistice holding a scalpel to Felix’s throat in the lab (more violence than nudity), a twelve-minute Tessa Thompson supercut and a vertical phone re-edit that mostly repeat other material, and a Season 4 party clip where nobody actually undresses. Everything here is either a guest in the park doing what she came for or a host on a repair table, which is what the whole show is about.

Why Westworld Still Gets Watched

The first season was huge. It had HBO’s highest premiere ratings since True Detective and was the most-watched first season of any HBO original series until The Last of Us came along in 2023. Critics loved it too: Season 1 sits at 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, and Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times called it vivid, thought-provoking television that entertains even as it examines the darker side of entertainment. Thandiwe Newton won the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Maeve. The later seasons lost a lot of viewers, mostly because the plots got very hard to follow, and HBO cancelled the show in November 2022 before the planned final season. But the nudity was never filler. In Westworld being naked means being a machine on someone else’s table, and every scene above is the show making a point about who is in control. That is why people still search for it years later.

About Westworld (2016-2022)

Westworld was created for HBO by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name, with J. J. Abrams among the executive producers. It ran for four seasons and 36 episodes, from October 2, 2016 to August 14, 2022. It was shot on 35mm film, with the town of Sweetwater built on the Melody Ranch backlot in Santa Clarita and the big desert views filmed around Castle Valley and Moab in Utah, where John Ford made his westerns. Nudity was filmed on a closed set, and an intimacy coordinator worked on the sex scenes. After the cancellation, the series was taken off HBO Max in December 2022 and licensed to free ad-supported streaming services.

Actor	Character
Evan Rachel Wood	Dolores Abernathy
Thandiwe Newton	Maeve Millay
Jeffrey Wright	Bernard Lowe / Arnold Weber
Tessa Thompson	Charlotte Hale
Ed Harris	The Man in Black
Anthony Hopkins	Dr. Robert Ford
James Marsden	Teddy Flood
Angela Sarafyan	Clementine Pennyfeather
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal	Armistice
Katja Herbers	Grace / Emily
Sidse Babett Knudsen	Theresa Cullen
Jimmi Simpson	William
Ben Barnes	Logan Delos