There is zero sex/naked/kissing/whatever scene in the first book, but of course they will have to change that.
(There has to be a serious problem in America, if they put sex into everything.)
('intimacy coordinator' - Before filming, actors have to sign contracts, so they know exactly what they are doing. They can feel disgust against the other actor, it doesn't matter.)
Women were shut out of the creative arts because they were considered too good for it. All of the women were played by young men and boys in in the Renaissance because it was socially unacceptable for women to debase themselves in fron of an audience like that.