What does the film have to say about the relationship between exercise and sex, as compulsive behaviors on the part of the characters?

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEX AND EXERCISE IN THE FILM “SHAME (2011)”
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The film, “Shame (2011)” directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender highlights several weeks of white urban dwelling and scholarly American national known as Brandon (Fassbender). Fassbender participates in excessive sex activities and toils with his sister intrusion into his usual life. His divulgence in this film has marketed the shamed film as a cinematic view of sexual behavior, which has turned to be a compulsive behavior. The sex phenomenon in this film, therefore, has portrayed some traits of muscle creation, which is a different form of exercise. Sexual addiction in “Shame” film comes with a highly fragile and problematic creation of heteronormative muscles, which has constantly maintained Brandon masculine being. This paper, therefore, aims at discussing the relationship between sex and exercise as it is illustrated in the film “Shame.”
Brandon's sexual behavior begun as a way of emotional fulfillment where he participated in the behavior as a way of having fun. His long time addictive in this behavior has shifted his mind to a different form of thinking where he thinks of attaining and maintaining a specific form of masculinity, which in general describes sex behavior as a way of excise. The film explores Brandon's construction of muscles displaying the exact struggles involved while gaining masculinity in the normal way like gym attendance and another form of exercise. The main focus in the film involves the tendency of relating the idea of masculinity to a phallus.[Orit, Epstein B. "Shame, Director: Steve McQueen, 2011." Attachment: New Directions in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 6, no. 2 (2012): 158-159.]
In the opening scene of the film, there is a clear analysis of frontal nudity, which is critically making use of the gaze providing both extradiegetic and intradiegetic form of exercises comment illustrated by hegemonic masculine and what is occasioned and displayed to the public as a naked male body. ...