Here, please watch the video for Vanity’s 1984 pop song “Pretty Mess,” which is not just sexual in nature but unusually specific in the type...

Last year, I started posting supercuts of the more conspicuously sexual parts of Saint Seiya , an anime series that started airing in Japan ...

Can we talk about the loaded symbolism of this comic book cover for a moment? On second thought... let’s not. DC’s Unexpected , May 1972. C...

Me: I have purchased underwear online. Online advertising: HEY DO YOU WANT TO BUY UNDERWEAR Me: Hmm? Oh, no. I already did. Online advertisi...

Without even hearing my argument, most people remotely familiar with The Dick Van Dyke Show would answer, “No, of course not, because it’s ...

For reasons I cannot explain even to myself, I continue to watch Saint Saiya , an 80s anime, and I continue to compile its baffling sexual i...

Honestly, I don’t know enough about anime to proclaim any given scene the most homoerotic-ever.  However, I know an opportunity for over-rea...

Today I learned the subtext of the word seminal . It’s semen. Yep, just like it sounds. Years spent around the endless praise of arts journa...

You know that line in “Landslide” where Stevie Nicks says that she saw her reflection in the snow-covered hills? This is kind of like that. ...

My go-to in any discussion of awful superhero characters had always been Cocaine , a DC character who hails from Colombia and whose powers a...

I know, I know — that post title, right? How dare I title something I wrote with that when Joyce Carol Oates'  On Bukkake remains the d...

An old book held and celebrated for its cover but not flipped through and then pondered after the fact: Wait, so is it about a weirdly sexy ...

I think we have a new contender for worst song ever: the 1984 recording “Banana” by someone calling herself Jane Chiquita . If the pairing o...

— "Mom, what's bigamy?" — "Where did you learn that word?" — "Cartoons." — "Was it The Simpsons ?...

When you’re riding in the waybackseat and it occurs to you that English has two loom s — the noun for the thing your weave on and the verb t...

I don’t want to be that guy, but it hasn’t to be said: Damn , that mannequin’s got some big ol’ jugs. Like, really. I feel like every manneq...

The lessons to be learned here: (1) One good ye-ye deserves another, and (2) Serge Gainsbourg had a pervy sense of humor. Yesterday, I wrote...

So I made this for dinner. Merken tastes a lot better than you’d think, mostly because it’s actually merkén, a Chilean seasoning blend of sa...

Whoopie twelve times, but also three times, depending on how you look at it. Gosh, after seeing the word whoopie like that, again and again...

Wondering why a rainy St. Patrick’s Day evening prompted me think about The Exorcist , I nearly wrote “Lord only knows.” Then I realized how...