pop culture
An exploration of sexuality and hypocrisy in pop culture. Celebrities and movies that work towards mainstreaming sex.
History of Women Jumping Out of Cakes
Drinks, laughs and bow ties. It’s your last night as a single man. Your fellas took you out to celebrate and say goodbye to the old times. It’s getting late and the alcohol is starting to hit. People dancing and joking around. Suddenly the music stops and your friends look at each other as if trying not to laugh. Everyone turns their head towards the door as a giant cake comes in while Cabaret music starts playing. At this point, every single person in the room can imagine what’s going to happen: all of the sudden, the cake explodes and a scantily-clad and attractive young woman burst out of it, dancing and moving to the beat.
By Filthy Staff9 years ago in Filthy
Infamous Relationship Break Ups
High-profile couples tend to have the most famous marriages, but they also share the most infamous relationship break ups. Regardless of social status, these folks are only human. They go through the the same emotional stages, insecurities, and anger we all experience during the trauma of a break up. The harshly-uttered unkind words! The secret vulnerabilities poked and pinched! The scorched earth left behind! The wounds! The feeling of loss that never goes away! The tender moments you replay over and over and over in your head! (A dramatic introduction seemed appropriate.)
By Filthy Staff9 years ago in Filthy
Banned MTV Music Videos
As sinuous synthesizer chords fill the air, the camera zooms through the soft, sensuous lighting and focuses on a woman’s hand. The camera pans down from her hand to her feet, and then slowly travels up between her legs, past her silken blond bush, up past enormous tits, complete with gigantic erect nipples, and finally arrives at her horny, inviting face.
By Filthy Staff9 years ago in Filthy
Marilyn Monroe's Last Photoshoot
He was a self-made photography giant. She was the most famous woman in the world. Together, Bert Stern and Marilyn Monroe's collaboration resulted in the now-classic The Last Sitting, a series of photography sessions that produced over 2,500 images that are both haunting and poignant. The photographs give us a glimpse of the complex starlet's different sides, as well as what was to come: her tragic death a little over a month later.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
Hottest Lumbersexual Men in Hollywood
Lumbersexuals never grow tired of wood. Akin to Paul Bunyan and the hot Brawny guy, a perfectly trimmed lumbersexual can cause a flood in any location—mowing lawns and cutting down those delicate undergarments along the way. With the ferocity (and sex drive) of Thor in battle combined with a young poet’s absorption in Steinbeck novels, Lumbersexuals are the new guilty pleasure of women that can’t get enough of the bearded giant. Ingredients? Flannel. Craft beer lover. Artistically trimmed beard. Buff as fuck. Plaid. Impeccable fashion sense. And devouring eyes.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
Scarlett Johansson’s Sexuality
Scarlett Johansson has proven she can make waves at the box office. If you’ve seen any of the films that Scarlett Johansson has starred in in recent years, you know she is no amateur and have witnessed her transformation from a child actress to an action movie star whose sexuality permeates the air on screen and in the theater.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
The Sexualization of Denise Richards
At the young age of nineteen years old, Denise Richards found herself with rushed breast implants and a sudden and fierce sexualized image. It was 1990, and breast implant surgeons saw themselves as artists first, then surgeons. Suddenly, Richards found herself with much larger implants than she asked for. Denise and her two knockers were the breast of buddies until 1998. While preparing for 1998’s Wild Things, she had corrective breast implant surgery. Yet, once again, the new doctor felt it incumbent to protect those precious fruits and made them larger (again) than she had asked for.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
Phoebe Cates' Pool Scene
After ending a brief but successful modeling career by seventeen, it took Phoebe Cates less than 24 months to become famous for what Rolling Stone has consistently voted Phoebe Cates' pool scene, as the hottest bikini scene in film history. It would be a defining moment for cinema and the end of innocence for a young Cates. The sexualization of Phoebe Cates began before she was even legal. By the time she was nineteen, it was 1982 and she had done several nude scenes in films like Paradise. Fully nude was fully nude. It seemed coming off the 1970s decade of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, nudity even for a teenager, was more socially acceptable than in the 21st century. Paradise was another version of the cult classic Blue Lagoon where Phoebe’s peer Brooke Shields, also quite young, played a sexually active teenager.
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
Brandy Ledford Was a Penthouse Pet. Created with: OG Collection.
From softcore porn to TV and film, Brandy Ledford became a favorite within the erotic art and pop culture collecting communities. Brandy Lee Ledford, born February 4, 1969, in Denver, Colorado, is an American actress, model, and Penthouse magazine’s 1992 “Pet of the Year.” Over the years, she transitioned from adult entertainment into mainstream acting, starring in a wide variety of television shows and films. Her roles have ranged from small indie films to well-known comedies like Rat Race. She gained a significant following in the sci-fi and geek community, particularly with her roles in Andromeda and Baywatch Hawaii.
By OG Collection 10 years ago in Filthy
Sex and Voodoo
Cast a spell in New York, have sex with a voodoo doll, make someone have an orgasm in Los Angeles. Perhaps with future studies of Haitian Vodou spirituality, this kind of fantasy can someday be available online. Voodoo sex spells and magic have become the thing of legends, yet they are still practiced by Voodoo priestesses and shysters alike. A once powerful and mystic folkway, the Americanized incarnation of voodoo has bled its way into pop culture.
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
RuPaul's Drag Queens to Follow
As a celebration of pride, I want to honor those who have worked tirelessly for the LGBTQ community in helping shape the way people perceive it. In the wake of Orlando’s Pulse Club Massacre, our country opened its eyes even wider to the violence and mistreatment of the community as a whole. An important group within the LGBTQ community that have been lasting figures, drag queens, have helped usher in a new world of acceptance and love. We thank those Queens for giving us happiness when it seems dark and gloomy. They offer hope when there doesn't seem to be any at times. Today, many drag queens have reached celebrity status, and that's thanks to RuPaul. Unless you’ve grown up on a deserted island or lived under a rock, you know who RuPaul is. And if you don’t… there is something called Google, do yourself a favor and look her up. Since RuPaul created RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2008, there have been 100 queens, 8 seasons, 3 spin-offs (All Stars, Drag U, and Gay for Play) all of which have helped and nurtured lesser know talent to become stars in their own right. So instead of celebrating famous actors and athletes that have come out in the past, we celebrate the underdogs of the community that have had a bigger impact on helping the world see a different, more fabulous side to the LGBTQ spectrum.
By George Gott10 years ago in Filthy
Did Anna Wintour Work in Porn?
By today's standards, porn is gritty, sweaty, and available in one click. In the late 1970s, under Anna Wintour's guidance, porn at Viva magazine was artistic, beautiful, and exclusive. Before her reign as Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour worked alongside Penthouse Magazine's Bob Guccione to elevate Viva magazine, an adult women's magazine, into a forum that exalted beauty, love, sexuality, and fashion. To Guccione, Viva was the yin to Vogue's yang; for what was nudity but an extension to art that could thrive in the world of fashion? Often on its pages were men and women in the tumults of love-making – accompanied by an engrossing story of their toxic affair – matched with spreads of delicate naked nymphets running in the forest. Ahead of its time, Viva featured the naked body and its pure natural beauty, which today would be excepted as art, but back then was limited by the categorization of "porn."
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
