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The film, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, wiped away everything that had gone before it. The hideous rape of Monica Bellucci in Irreversible (2002)? The grimly determined humping from Japanese 1976 classic In the Realm of the Senses? All gone. Faded in comparison. Plus, it was gay sex. So it made the cutesy girl-on-girl action in Bound (2006) and Mulholland Drive (2001) seem dubious and cheap. Lady Cheeky Tumblr is a blog created by sex guru and author Elle Chase to educate and entertain men and women from around the world about what it means to have an idea of what gender-equal sensuality is all about. Roeg eventually appeased the censors by removing 0.3 seconds of footage and intercutting the sex with scenes of the couple getting dressed to go out afterwards (a technique that prefigured the great Clooney-Lopez love scene in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight). But the scene remains famous – and rated as one of the best ever – not simply because of its alarming explicitness but because it broke a taboo few films ever venture near: the link between sex and death.

C'mon everybody, let's say it together: sex is normal. Everyone thinks about it. Most people do it. It's not a dirty word! The first and only X-rated film to be named best picture was given its certificate from the MPAA for its “depiction of prostitution and homosexuality” – a fact that now seems a relic of its time, not least given the modesty of the film itself by modern standards. Nonetheless, John Schlesinger’s drama was a risky, adventurous movie in theme if not content, making a mesmerising protagonist out of Jon Voigt’s gay hustler who strikes up an unlikely friendship with another impoverished loner in Dustin Hoffman’s skittish con man Ratso. Kink.com specializes—you guessed it— in providing its members with high-quality fetish porn that range from the cute and cuddly to the rough and raunchy. While those couture suits cost a pretty penny, other celebs reach for bikinis a lower price point. Some of their faves come from Frankies Bikinis, Triangl, Boohoo and Cotton:On.

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I met Willem Dafoe recently and I asked him about Body of Evidence. The film, in which he stars as a lawyer in rainy Portland, Oregon, defending a part-time gallery owner and full-time dominatrix (Madonna) charged with murder-by-vagina, is generally derided as a giggle-inducing, all-time cinematic low. Perhaps typically, or not, Dafoe had much to defend in the film. He liked playing the bitch to Madonna's butch. He was disappointed with the marketing hype that revolved around Madonna's nudity. And mostly, he felt that Madonna became an unhelpful "symbol" for the bad buzz around the film. The slasher film’s fixation with fornication is as old as the genre itself. Classically, the relationship is puritanical and punitive: a gang of randy, hedonistic teenagers get what’s coming to them thanks to a bloodthirsty killer – penetration of one sort begetting penetration of another – with a virginal final girl the only one to be spared. Porn 4 Ladies is a collection of clips gathered from a number of sources all around the internet, and it’s got one primary goal: to provide women with some of the best smut they can get for free.