However, it has now been revealed that a manicure wasn’t the first thing to pop into Elle’s mind.

In a new interview, Legally Blonde co-writer Karen McCullah and Witherspoon’s co-star Selma Blair divulged that the original script for the film read a little differently.

“There was a very dirty joke [there]: ‘What’s one thing that always makes us feel better? Cunnilingus,’” McCullah told Entertainment Weekly.

“And then it was like, ‘No, the thing after that.’ And then it cuts to the manicure place.”

McCullah added that the NSFW joke “was cut during the test screening because a movie executive said, ‘What does cunnilingus mean?’”

“He’s no longer with his wife,” joked Blair.

Despite being a thoroughly mainstream and necessary part of modern sex, it’s fair to say that cunnilingus is rarely referenced in film and television – if at all. Basic Instinct and Charlie Countryman were famously forced to cut their oral sex scenes for censors, while Blue Valentine was subjected to an NC-17 rating for refusing to do the same.

On the flipside, fellatio is far less of a taboo onscreen: 1994’s Ace Ventura sees the detective get a special ‘reward’, 2002’s The Sweetest Thing had that iconic ‘blow-job gone wrong’ moment, and 2013’s Lovelace (the biopic tale of Linda Lovelace) saw the titular character demonstrating her ‘deep throat’ skills on camera for the first time.

No wonder, then, that the shrouding of cunnilingus in taboo and secrecy is having a profound impact on young people and their attitudes towards oral sex.

This oral sex reference was cut from Legally Blonde for a very depressing reason