Serious literary prizes like the Booker and the National Book Awards are all very well, but we’ll be honest and say that the award we really look forward to every year is the Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction award. This year’s winner was announced this week — it’s David Guterson, for his novel Ed King, which described the titular character having sex with, um, his mother as follows: “It didn’t take long for the beautiful and perfect Ed King to ejaculate for the fifth time in twelve hours, while looking like Roman public-bath statuary. Then they rinsed, dried, dressed, and went to an expensive restaurant for lunch.” Right. But anyway, the whole sorry business got us thinking that there really should be an equivalent for film — after all, Hollywood has been responsible for some of the most hilariously awful depictions of sex you’ll ever see. Like the ones after the jump, for instance. (This is all hugely NSFW, by the way.) Read More »

Thanks to Carmen Electra and her “exercise” striptease videos, poles are a permanent pop culture fixture (remember that episode of Gossip Girl? those scenes in The Wrestler?) and all the hot mamas are getting their lap dance on. But contrary to popular belief, true pole dancing  doesn’t involve the shredding of clothes and visible g-strings. It does involve technique, flexibility, creativity and expression; no different from other dance forms.

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