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Call Me by Your Name (2017): A Summer That Lasts
Call Me by Your Name is the BoysDo film. Not because it was made for this platform — it wasn't — but because it inhabits, more fully than any other...
BoysDo vs Twitter / X: The Default That Stopped Working
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Man Who Made the Art World Look
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...
All of Us Strangers (2023): The Grief You Didn't Know You Were Still Carrying
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
Passages (2023): Desire Without Apology
Passages was given an NC-17 rating in the United States — the rating that, in practice, makes theatrical distribution impossible — for a scene of ma...
Queer (2024): Desire as the Only Religion
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed
Helmut Newton: Desire as Architecture
Helmut Newton did not photograph the male body often. He is known, overwhelmingly, for his images of women — powerful, dangerous, frequently naked, al...
Erotic Photography vs Pornography: Why the Difference Matters
The distinction between erotic photography and pornography is one that the internet has spent thirty years pretending does not exist. Everything is co...
Softcore vs Pornography: Where the Line Is and Why It Moves
The word "softcore" arrived in the cultural vocabulary as a rating category — a way of describing adult content that stopped short of explicit sexual...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...