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'Glee's' Ryan Murphy defends teen sex episode (CNN)

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Last winter on the set of the show's massive post-Super Bowl episode, "Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy told EW that he wanted the gay teenage relationship between Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) to be just as complicated as any of the show's heterosexual romances.

Now he's making good on his word: Tuesday's episode of the Fox hit, "The First Time," finds not only Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn (Cory Monteith) having sex with each other for the first time, but -- in a groundbreaking move for an 8 p.m. series -- McKinley High's gay couple doing the same. (Warning: SPOILERS ahead!)

"We were talking about it [in the writers' room] like, 'Why shouldn't [Kurt and Blaine] lose their virginity at the same time?'" Murphy tells EW exclusively. "Everybody has seen a straight couple losing their virginity, but has anyone dovetailed the gay and straight stories together and given them equal weight? That seemed like an exciting choice and a new thing." According to Murphy, the four actors' only worry was that they look good in the love scenes: "The first thing they all said was 'Do we have to go on diets?'"

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Complete article at CNN : http://bit.ly/tqBElY