It might be difficult to think so nowadays, but the above image at one time represented mainstream Hollywood’s best efforts at pushing together the then-burgeoning realm of VR tech with sex. The image is taken from 1992’s Lawnmower Man; a film that wasn’t even well-received […]
Picture the scene: It’s 1999 and 13-year-old me sits alone in his room adorned with posters and totally untidy. Spotty, virginal, awkward… nothing ever changes, right? As much as I wanted to see naked women in the flesh, I was more than aware that my […]
Amnesty International’s recent proposal to enact the decriminalization of sex work across the globe has been met in some quarters with sharp and stark resistance. The human rights group’s proposal – circulated by the Tasmanian Times – has been met with open hostility by the […]
Sex is everywhere in popular film and television, but it bears remarkably little resemblance to most sex that happens in the real world. Why do we sanitize sex in pop culture? And is it a problem? In soft blue light, white curtains flutter. Berlin coos […]
Well, suffice to say it’s been another crazy year all round. Just when you thought 2014 was starting to drift away and become a dot in life’s rear view mirror, along came a veritable flood of news, no less the bizarre machinations of the Sony/North […]
So I’ve just come home from watching Transcendence the movie and it has only served to renew my intense annoyance at Hollywood for making it seem like any hacker or person who is even remotely good with the computer must be magical. Here’s the thing, […]
