I’ve only read the collection Little Birds, and there are some stories in there that basically describe some gross shit and then end (“Little Birds,” for example, although that story is weirdly pretty). But it’s neat to have such a blunt document of how people viewed sex in that era (it’s all fiction, but I’m certain…

Supposedly, it was one wealthy pervert who wanted to collect stories about a variety of sexual acts/ situations. The earlier stories are painful to read. They’re exercises in box checking (Lesbian sex? Check. Incest? Check. With more than one family member? Check. Necrophilia? Check.), and their only appeal seems to…

I’m pretty sure Anais Nin started out writing erotic stories on commission from wealthy perverts, and she brought so much flair to it that it was accepted as literature.

Say what you will about a Nazi fetish, at least it has an ethos.

I guess you could say she did see that coming.

As David Letterman taught us, you can repeat a joke until it’s no longer funny, and then keep repeating it until it’s hilarious. Whereas you can’t keep overanalzying a joke until it gets funnier.

Those Bridgeport Buttplugs are a rough, flinty bunch.

[Puts away tabletop lathe and 3-pound stick of radish]

Since we’re being honest, my screen name isn’t Bawdy fun. It is my real name.

Yes. I find it interesting the way older art like this gets dismissed because of problematic behavior of the characters. It is not in any way to say the behavior should be accepted because nobody knew better (because people certainly did and it’s irrelevant anyway), but I feel it’s important to be an accurate…

It’s interesting that, if I’m remembering correctly:

The memory of that baby dragon chewing on the dead princess’s foot still creeps me out. And that movie was rated PG!

That was the lovely Caitlin Clarke in Dragonslayer, a pretty good dark fantasy movie 

Dragonslayer from 1980 or maybe 1981. The blacksmith’s daughter was living disguised as a boy to avoid being in the lottery to potentially be sacrificed to the dragon. The protagonist, the wizard’s apprentice, discovers she is a she when he catches her bathing in a pond.

I think Fast Times at Ridgemont High is wildly overrated. I agree with Danny Peary’s slam that though Cameron Crowe went undercover as a high school student for a year to research it, it shows all the insight you would get from hanging out at the mall for an hour. I probably prefer Just One of the Guys, which didn’t…

Yeah, this is a not-insignificant hole in your 80's pop-culture cred. “Where do you get off having tits” is one of the great lines of our time.

I would say as 80s teen sex comedies go it was less high-profile than Porky’s, more than Hardbodies. I will say I thought it had pretty much disappeared since the 80s, and this article is the first time I have been aware that it has somewhat of a cult following (which obviously does not include me). 

If we’re talking about lines from the movie, “Horny will kick embarrassment’s ass every time,” is pretty good. 

I haven’t watched it in a long while, but I was one of those kids watching it on cable a gazillion times & I loved it.

This is not a great movie, and is very of its time. I think this conversation is very interesting in frankly acknowledging some of its problems. On a more positive note it holds up better than maybe any other 80s sex comedy (not the greatest movie genre). And this might have been the fabulous Joyce Hyser’s best role