There's an eternal struggle to be filthy in John Waters movies. Sometimes it's forged by switchblade toting greasers who are up against a town of squares - or in the case of his first movie, it’s a three hundred pound drag queen competing with drug dealing...

  When people hear I’m in a long distance relationship they always ask, “Isn’t it hard?” The answer is yes, yes it is really fucking hard. My boyfriend lives in San Francisco. I live in Boston. That’s a 3,000 mile gap and just about the furthest you can go in the...

The Girlfriend Experience shows us a totally unexplored angle of the sex-trade. No, not the motel room rendezvous or bloodlusting midnight predators, not the pimps with veiny backhands or the tear-jerking backstories of broken-home trauma. No cocaine, no coercion,...

Roman Polanski first stunned audiences with Rosemary’s Baby, the story of a young couple whose move into their first apartment soon descends into a hellish nightmare that takes the reigns of the young romance. Bitter Moon’s a similar tale of love gone sour. It’s an...

If you want to know where Hollywood got its rep as a sleazeball kingdom, look no further than Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Director Russ Meyer, the self-proclaimed King of the Nudies, brings us back to the greasiest chapter of Hollywood history, where curves, bulges,...

...about your first time, that is. Cole’s latest album is one of those rare records whose greatest trait is its sheer relatability. “2014 Forest Hill Drive” is spot-on at capturing the kind of nostalgia only found in early morning car rides around your old hometown....

If you hear “Spanish cinema” and think hairspray, eye-popping pastels, and lots of arguing about nothing, well, checkmate. But don’t take Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! for some pointless pleasure romp or you’ll be doing spit-takes with your margarita. Director Pedro...

Many people who know I am starting a company which produces adult films and promotes positive sexuality are surprised to find out that I grew up in a family that was too Christian to celebrate Christmas. As a kid, I was that brat who explained that you didn't see...

When talking about sellouts, most people think of an indie band gone mainstream, not of a credit card processor with over $300 million in transactions daily, but what most people don't know is that Paypal, the ultimate sell out, became the successful monopoly they are...

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Admittedly this is a much more charged subject then I usually tackle in my comics, but I couldn't watch this moment in history pass and act as if nothing was happening. We have recently seen a number of high profile cases of institutionalized racism and subsidized...

  The first woman to pick up the hammer of Thor,  Dr. Blake's nurse, Jane Foster, did so in 1978 in a distant parallel Marvel Universe during a series of "What If.." releases. Five years ago, I picked up this vintage comic book, What If Jane Foster Had Found the...

While Sex Tape has been criticized for skirting around the pornographic nature of its plot (where a couple whose sex life has fizzled makes a sex tape to rekindle the flame), lead actress Cameron Diaz has whole wholeheartedly embraced this racy genre in the past....

  Last week marked the close of the fifth annual World Bodypainting Festival in Austria. This event gathers all of the biggest names in the industry to ignite the imagination of thousands of spectators for a weekend of dancing, fashion shows and live exhibitions.The...