Definitely.

I think the famous scene with Meg Ryan faking an orgasm was the real impetus of it's true popularity.

I think Americans were (are) bombarded with sexualization in ads and movies but also forbidden to express it socially in schools or churches or at the grocery store. It is a violent puritanical tension that makes the subjects easy to control and dominate; the constant frission exploiting genuine instinct and emotion with the learned repression from dominant culture. Subjects fall over with just a nudge one way or the other as the need arises.

That and Rob Reiner is Liberalism distilled.