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STILL Hot For TeacherMy first love is dead. Like millions of girls (and undoubtedly quite a few boys) growing up in the 60s, my first crush was on Russell Johnson, who played Roy Hinkley, known to generations of TV viewers simply as The Professor. The One-Track Minded Professor I imagined being held in his arms, smelling . . . → Read More: STILL Hot For Teacher 
Lily Allen’s new video for Hard Out Here got me thinking. My first thought was that it’s great when a mainstream female artist draws attention to sexism, misogyny and double standards. My second thought was that I wish the message wasn’t accompanied by (lots of) the very porn-y and corny imagery it professes to . . . → Read More: Lily’s Right, It IS Hard Out Here 
I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. What should I be for Halloween this year? A sexy vampire, a sexy astronaut, a sexy nurse, a sexy pirate, a sexy carrot – the possibilities are endless. When I was a little girl, like all children I Imagined who I’d like to be . . . → Read More: Halloween Costumes, Pop Tarts and Candy Porn  2 comments  HELP YOURSELF, ME, POP-ED, WTF  girls, Halloween, holiday, Miley Cyrus, pop culture, sexism, sexy
Everybody, let’s stop with the slut-shaming. Her performance at the VMAs is upsetting, but not for the reasons you think. The furor and shock and vitriol strike me as the height of hypocrisy and sexism. Miley Cyrus is still America’s Sweetheart — the REAL America Am I happy young girls feel they need . . . → Read More: In Defense of Miley Cyrus 
I’ve been obsessed with Pre-Code movies for decades. Here’s why: Most people believe old movies are stodgy, quaint relics of a time when asexual women did what they were told and upright, wholesome men stalwartly upheld good Christian values. But most people are wrong. Very, very wrong. These people assume the post-World War . . . → Read More: Fabulously Perverted and Sexy Pre-Code 30s Movies! Part 1 2 comments MOVIES, POP-ED 1930s, film history, Great Depression, movies, nudity, pop culture, pre-code, sex, sexy, talkies
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