pop culture
An exploration of sexuality and hypocrisy in pop culture. Celebrities and movies that work towards mainstreaming sex.
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
Showgirls' Elizabeth Berkley
Given her notoriety from Showgirls, it isn’t that surprising that Elizabeth Berkley’s first passion was ballet. A dancer, model, and child actor who had guest starred on Silver Spoons along side fellow child actor Ricky Schroder, Berkley had just turned eighteen when she landed the role of Jessie Spano on the 90s teen hit Saved By the Bell. She was one of the first contemporary teen actresses to transform into a sex symbol on network television. Saved by the Bell first aired in 1989. Six years later, her sexualization was completed with the starring role in the cult classic Showgirls, by renowned director Paul Verhoven. She would set the stage for similar teen transformations like High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens, Hannah Montana's Miley Cyrus and Wizard of Waverly Place's Selena Gomez.
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
Why 'Game of Thrones' Loves Porn Stars
For such a widely viewed and, might I add, socially accepted show, there sure are a lot of tits and ass in Game of Thrones. And not just naked girls, but generally rough sex. Hold on a second, isn’t that what porn is always slated for? Then who better to cast as these naked bodies then porn stars themselves? I have to hand it to the casting directors, casting porn girls for nude roles and sex scenes in a mainstream television production is a genius plan. We are comfortable with nudity and sex, and it’s not awkward or hard for us to imitate these things. I was also told, upon my first time on set, that I made the other girls who hadn’t done nude scenes before feel more comfortable, because I was so comfortable with being naked.
By Samantha Bentley10 years ago in Filthy
Sexualization of Vanessa Hudgens
Sexy photos of Vanessa Hudgens, clad in bikinis and other revealing ensembles, have blanketed the internet since she was old enough to serve in the armed forces. Born in 1988, she was on of the first multitalented millennial superstars. Perhaps it is the good girl gone bad appeal that has sexualized the popular perception of her once squeaky clean image.
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
Hottest Women Over 40
Perhaps it is my own age, or perhaps it is actually their age specifically that makes this list of women over forty so damn attractive. It goes way beyond their hot bodies and beautiful faces. It is the imperfections that I find most attractive. It is within these imperfections that one finds the deeper, more complicated aspects of these beautiful ladies. A crease in a forehead can be immensely sexy, revealing intimate stories as a woman’s facial expressions change. A few lines around the lips can feel like an intimate invitation. A drop of pretense can mean a world of simplicity.
By Frank White10 years ago in Filthy
Amy Schumer's Dress Size Controversy
You know, I love Amy Schumer... mostly because she makes my job so fucking easy. Amy’s been a fertile breeding ground for controversy these past couple of weeks, exhibiting a surprisingly thin skin when it comes to other people’s jokes riffing off the knee-slappers she tells about herself; fending off public accusations of comedic plagiarism; and making her own very public accusation of selfie-rape (which was quite possibly unwarranted). But the Amy-centric controversy I’ve been loving the most these days is her seemingly innocent claim that, when it comes to her dress size, "I go between a size 6 and an 8."
By Eric Danville10 years ago in Filthy
How Celebrities Influence Cultural Movements
There’s a brand new talk, but it’s not very clear That people from good homes are talking this year (Fashion!) It’s loud and tasteless and I’ve heard it before You shout it while you’re dancing on the dance floor (Fashion!) —David Bowie, "Fashion"
By Eric Danville10 years ago in Filthy
Actresses Who Played Prostitutes
Whore. Hooker. Call girl. Prostitute. The sex industry is alive and thriving, generating an annual revenue of over $100 billion dollars worldwide, because hey, sex sells. But who are the women who sell their bodies for money? What are their stories? If there’s anything Hollywood likes more than selling sex on the big screen, it’s telling a story with sex and merit. The roles actresses have played portraying prostitutes range from emotional to hilarious, and span across the better half of a century. Some of the actresses retained their gorgeous looks for their roles; Others shed it, openly embracing the sometimes hard and gritty life associated with the world’s oldest profession.
By Filthy Staff10 years ago in Filthy
