When Nagisa Ōshima’s art film In the Realm of the Senses was released in 1976, it caused a stir. Featuring real sex between its actors was a big challenge for moviegoers, because it was an early and unforeseen attempt at breaking up the seemingly immovable limits between serious art and pornography. On the one hand many pornographic publications in the 1970s tried to point out a serious attitude,...
The final episode of Ruby Day on Playboy TV Swing is airing this Saturday!! Want to know what happens as the sexy debauchery with Ruby Day and the newbie’s, Heather & Dan, unfolds? Watch Episode 2 of Season 4 on Playboy TV this Saturday. If you subscribe to Playboy TV you can watch Season 4 Episode 2 Swing: Heather & Dan which will air this Saturday 5/03 at 7 & 10 pm CST. ...
I have great news if you don’t have access to Playboy TV here is an opportunity to catch the season premiere of Swing. At the last minute Playboy decided to give for FREE Episode 1 of Swing Season 4!!! Watch the premiere of Swing here: http://www.playboytv.com/show/swing/premiere-episode/ Hurry because you’ll want to catch Ruby Day on the show and it won’t last for long!! Image...
Sophia and I were good friends in high school. She decided to marry her high school boyfriend when we were all in college, and I was a bridesmaid in their huge Italian wedding. She was part Italian, part Portuguese and didn’t know that she had been one of my teenage crushes. The summer we graduated from college, I moved into an apartment with a roommate, and they had an apartment in the same...
At this very moment there is a street festival outside and music comes to me through the open window. Stolidly dousing, some jazzy Italopop or poppy Italo jazz, who knows. The difference from what I’ve heard immediately previously couldn’t be any greater: psychedelic rock from the 1960s, synthesizer pieces from the early seventies. Old, but still refreshing – and intensive. Whatever...
“The story of a young man who is moving from the provinces to Rome in order to become a journalist. One of these journalists a society craving for sensations is creating: a muckraker enjoying himself for giving up his former ideals.” This diary note of Italian writer Ennio Flaiano was the original idea for Federico Fellini’s three-hour masterpiece “La Dolce Vita” (the...
It was on the Fourth of July that K wanted to introduce me to her parents. Her entire extended family would be present—grandparents, cousins, siblings. I was a nervous wreck driving over to their house. What if these people were my future in-laws? She answered the front door dressed in a bikini, looking smoking hot, and kissed me. After a short tour of the house, I changed clothes and the two of...
Last week we were discussing real and unreal diseases. We have learned that there is a disease mongering of socially unwanted phenomena with the reputation of addictions. These addictions, most of them of a behavioral nature, are based upon an a prior assumption to be real disorders. There is no unambiguous scientific report about these purported diseases, though: many studies are tendentious, or...
The script to my life went as follows: Woman works at a company for years. Millionaire man cuts her position during the recession. Woman can’t find work. Woman walks into a “men’s club” one afternoon and signs up to be a topless dancer. Man comes in. Woman decides to write a novel about it. *** He was sitting at a table next to the stage having a cocktail and watching the entertainment, dressed...
