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“Cult” Not “Author” Is the JT LeRoy Documentary You Should Watch

Laura Albert is pretending to be someone she’s not. Again. Or maybe she’s telling the truth this time. That’s the problem when someone lies so much to so many people: when should we start believing their stories about wolves? You probably know Albert better as JT LeRoy, the abused, abandoned, HIV-positive, gender-bending, teenaged, trick-turning, literary […]

Pop Culture
#7FavFilms…About Sex

1. Secretary   2. Dangerous Liaisons    3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch    4. Y Tu Mama También    5. Sex, Lies, and Videotape    6. Brokeback Mountain    7. Boogie Nights    What about some of our LEAST favorite: The 20 Most Disturbing Sex-Themed Movies

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The 15 Most Romantic Movies Streaming on Netflix This Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to get in the mood for love. These 15 films currently streaming on Netflix can help. Ten are gimmes when it comes to cinematic romances, five are a bit more unexpected (and might appeal to those who break out in hives when they hear the term “rom-com”).  […]

Dream Interpretation
I Dreamt I Had Sex with Frank N. Furter

Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. Got a dream you want Lauri to analyze? Click here to submit it (18 and older only, please). This week, a reader asks Lauri: I recently had a dream that I was having […]

Movies
Rocky Horror As Rite of Passage (Lo Interviews Her High School Boyfriend)

In 1987, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was just a pre-teen, I was a 15-year-old virgin — both in the RHPS sense of the word (i.e. having never seen the cult classic) and literally (i.e. having never done the deed). Enter 17-year-old Craig B. . . . well, both figuratively and literally: he was […]

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Happy 40th Anniversary, Rocky Horror!

This week (Friday, the 14th to be exact) marks the — brace yourself — 40th(!) anniversary of the release of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Below, you’ll find all the romantic, sensual and scandalous scenes that’ll take you down memory lane so you don’t have to commit to a nearby midnight screening — unless that’s […]

Movies
Top 10 Sex and Dating Tips from “Airplane!” Quotes

Earlier this week we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the movie Airplane! with 35 little known facts about the classic comedy. Today, because Airplane! is pretty much the most quotable movie in the entire history of movies, we offer you ten sex and dating tips via some of our favorite lines: 1. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It […]

Pop Culture
“Airplane!” Is 35. Shirley You Can’t Be Serious?

There are certain movies I watched over and over as a child — movies that still take me back to that magical time when I see them today. Their magic inspired me so much that I considered working in the film industry at one point. I’ve heard that services like Friends in Film were a […]

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Masculinity = “The Mask You Live In”

“Don’t cry.” “Be a man.” “Man up.” “Don’t be a pussy.” “Grow some fucking balls.” These are the lessons we’re teaching our boys, and it’s hurting everyone. When we feminize caring, empathy and emotional communication and expression, we don’t give boys the capacity to be fully formed human beings. The result is violence and suicide. This […]

Pop Culture
Our Night with the Real “Magic Mike XXL”

Male strippers are no joke.  We mean that literally: in Magic Mike XXL, the women aren’t laughing at the “male entertainers,” as the guys prefer to call themselves. They are turned on. Seriously turned on. Read on to learn about our night in the Bronx, at an underground strip club, when we experienced this notion first-hand. But first: […]

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Questioning the Kink in the “Fifty Shades” Movie, in Honor of Its Digital/DVD Release

When Fifty Shades of Grey first hit screens this past February, our friend and colleague Gwynne Watkins — who writes for Yahoo, often awesomely about movies — interviewed us about how realistic the kink was. In honor of the movie’s digital & DVD release this week, we’re publishing the initial, unedited and unabridged email questions we exchanged […]

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Out on DVD: Questioning the Kink in “Fifty Shades”

When Fifty Shades of Grey first hit screens this past February, our friend and colleague Gwynne Watkins — who writes for Yahoo, often awesomely about movies — interviewed us about how realistic the kink was. In honor of the movie’s digital & DVD release this week, we’re publishing the initial, unedited and unabridged email questions we exchanged […]

Movies
30th Anniversary of One of the Most Romantic Movies Ever Made

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Merchant-Ivory production, A Room with a View, which won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1985 (along with best art direction and costume design) and introduced many of us to the possibility that mainstream movies could, in fact, have full frontal male nudity. Based on the […]

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25 Things You Didn’t Know About “Pretty Woman”

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the movie Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts, Julia Roberts’ hair, and Richard Gere. (Now don’t you feel old?) The big celebration, with the cast reuniting for the first time in twenty-five years on the Today Show, happened last week. But we were out of town last week, so […]

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Interesting Kickstarter: A Documentary on an Alternative Love Model

Filmmakers Ian MacKenzie and John Wolfstone are challenging what they call “the myth of the one” by profiling a group in Portugal called Tamera, a “free love” community dedicated to “social sustainability” and a “future without war” by making all matters of love and sexuality within a community completely transparent. Check out their impressive pitch […]