Outlander ’s virginity-losing scene is even better a decade after the first-ever episode was released. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first-ever episode of Outlander season one, when fans were first introduced to Claire Beauchamp (played by Catriona Balfe ) and Jamie Fraser (played by Sam Heughan ). Although it may have been a decade since the pilot episode was released, those early seasons are still remembered fondly by fans who are just as obsessed with the series today as they were ten years ago.
As one of those obsessed fans, I can safely say that the first-ever sex scene between Claire and Jamie is still the blueprint for intimacy scenes. The chemistry between the actors is phenomenal but there’s something more beneath the surface that has meant this endearing scene has set the standard for intimacy on TV. The episode is gentle, innocent, and above all, hot, basically everything that losing your virginity should be! Just to add a little context, in season one episode seven, Claire is forced to marry Jamie to protect her from the English.
There’s a whole complicated backstory but the essence of the situation is: this is a marriage of convenience. That said, there had been some major flirting between the pair and a bit of emotional conflict for our poor Claire who was of course still married to Frank -who she accidentally ditched in the 1940s in favour of mud, rain, and sexy highlanders in the eighteenth century. Before she ties the knot with the red-headed .