Category: Culture

The short film Voyeurism is Part III in Jonathan Leder’s Fetishisms Trilogy inspired by Fetishisms Manifesto – itself an “inspiration of the under the counter nudie-mags of the 1950s.” Check out Leder’s Fetishisms Manifesto Tumblr for more dirty pinups from the past, and also see my post on Leder’s second Fetishisms film Nymphomania.

Yearly calendars exist for me in this weird twilight, somewhere between analog nostalgia and cool things I never buy. That’s not to suggest you shouldn’t buy a 2014 calendar, especially one that is for a good cause. It’s just that ever since I co-ran Fleshbot with Jonno back in 2005, I’ve found all kinds of…

This film is my first encounter with filmmaker Gordon von Steiner, and after watching it I’m in a combined state of awestruck and erotically inspired. The short video above is his most recent short film, Persona, shot for 25 Magazine and starring Edita Vilkeviciute. I love the super-slick glossy latex, shoes and saran wrap, the…

“As an artist I am supposed to push the boundaries, ask questions, inspire the audience and introduce different ethnicities and in a whole new way. I think my films are artistic because I use sound, mood, atmosphere, lighting, wardrobe and talent to tell the story — not just body parts or sex scenes. My creative…

Excerpt above from new X-Confessions short film I Fucking Love IKEA. I’ve long wanted to see exactly what Erika Lust (Lust Cinema) has just released: her new series X-Confessions selects user-submitted sexual fantasies and recreates them, beautifully and explicitly, on video, in short and stylish vignettes. She just released X-Confessions: Volume 1 and it includes…

While I’ve always been a bit frustrated with Brooklyn-based porn photographer Ellen Stagg‘s technical implementations and marketing approaches, I’ve nonetheless remained a huge fan of her work since as far back as 2010. Stagg has a talent like no other, and her photosets of fetish models, porn performers and erotic models of all kinds are…

Image: from Pirelli Calendar from 2006 by Mert+Marcus (not in the Dazed gallery). This month’s issue (September) of Dazed and Confused has a great article covering the erotic, artistic history of the notorious and coveted Pirelli Calendar. In FASHION ARCHIVE: PIRELLI CALENDAR Dazed Digital wraps the article around a large gallery of 30 choice shots…