Obscenes
Savina PetkovaSnapshots of a pleasurable journey through the labyrinths of sex and cinema.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Monthly |
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Truly Naked
a wonderful behind-the-scenes shot by Kris Dewitte ©
Back in February, I met Dana (a beloved mentor of mine) in a Utrecht coffee shop where we caught up on all things film and criticism. I told her about Obscenes and, supportive as she has...
Suture Me In! Cannes, Sex, and Death
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It’s day two of Cannes 2026 and no amount of queues can stop me from loudly denouncing heteromonogamy and pledging full support for the two recently single girlfriends I am waiting in line to see Jane Schoenbrun’s Te...
"You’re still living in fear?" Questions to and from Gaspar Noé
I met Gaspar Noé two years ago. It was the same plush basement conference room in a Luxembourg hotel where I had interviewed Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps the day before, two angel-guests of the (truly wonderful) Luxembourg Film Festival...
Pedagogy in the Sheets
To sleep or not to sleep with your teacher? Recent films, TV series, and books say HELL NO.
In 1986, the US Supreme Court decided that consent wasn’t necessarily a bar to sexual harassment (see the case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, w...
Emerald Fennell gives Isabella Linton the roses and thorns she deserves in new Wuthering Heights (2026)
image courtesy of Warner Bros
A huge fan of Jane Eyre (book and screen adaptations), I had little to no interest in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” until the late 2000s when, as most teenage girls back then, I was going through a Twilig...
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