When it comes it graphically in-your-face gay cinema and Pillion in particular, any journo (even one in the employ of a trade publication) can talk about anything.
In some instances the point isn’t to offer police-blotter information or sage analysis but to (ahem) arouse.
I’ll restrict myself to the R-rated version, thanks.
If and when a hetero romantic drama with semi-graphic or near-porny depictions of whatever were to be made (such films were allowed in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s but are verboten today —- there are certainly no straight Pillion-type flicks), trade reporters would be discouraged from offering any sort of commentary, and would certainly be instructed to avoid descriptions of a woman having a “radiant post-coital face.”