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Lights, Camera, ACTION: “Black Swan”

Welcome to the second installment of Lights, Camera, ACTION. Each month, Rachel Vorona Cote chooses an erotic scene from film or television and walks you through its quirks and kinks, particularly as they pertain to female lived experience. Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is the sort of film that scorns subtlety. Black, white, and a naïve, […]

Lights, Camera, ACTION: “Showgirls”

I was 10 when “Showgirls” strutted into theaters, tits perked, bedazzled and bewigged. And because I watched “Saved By the Bell” on occasion and had caught wind of Elizabeth Berkley’s proto-Miley turn to the naughty, I was curious — especially because kid Rachel wasn’t sure what “naughty” meant outside the context of elementary school discipline. […]