Sex in the Cinema
Torie and Maggie, self-described cinephiles and proud horndogs, host a podcast that explores the full spectrum of sex scenes in film—from the good and sexy to the bad and seriously un-sexy. Each episode dives into cinematic history and the many ways intimacy is portrayed on screen. The show also highlights extra credit viewing like Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, and encourages listeners to follow on Instagram or reach out by email. Artwork is by Maggie Martine.
Episodes
Swords & Sandals Special: TROY x THE ODYSSEY w/ Billy Weston
Torie is joined by returning special guest Billy Weston for an epic double feature discussion of Christopher Nolan’s blockbusting THE ODYSSEY (2026) and Wolfgang Peterson’s hornier, hammier, early aughts adaptation of The Iliad, TROY (2004).
Billy and Torie discuss their adventure seeing THE ODYSSEY in 4Dx, Brad Pitt’s hair, the perks of being a tent bunny, mothers who have unresolved anger toward
Euphoria Grads (Kat): MILE END KICKS w/ Cecilia Conti
In this next installment of our Euphoria graduates series, we turn to Barbie Ferreira, who played the fan-favorite Kat Hernandez in seasons 1 and 2 (aka the good seasons) of Sam Levinson’s HBO series. While her former classmates, Nate and Cassie, have moved on to big-budget flicks (some of them blunders), Barbie as claimed a throne for herself as the Indie Queen reigning over the festival circuit.
The Willem DaShow: BODY OF EVIDENCE w/ John Garcia
This is a landmark episode. Best friend of the pod and long-awaited guest John Garcia joins Torie to unpack one of the most reviled installments of the 90s erotic thriller canon, BODY OF EVIDENCE (1993). It just might be the best bad movie you’ve ever seen.
Starring the one, the only, the icon - Madonna - as a femme fatale firing on all cylinders, and Torie’s boyfriend, Willem Dafoe, as her moro
Euphoria Grads (Cassie): THE HOUSEMAID w/ Cecilia Conti & Josh Reinhold
Returning guests Cecilia Conti and Josh Reinhold join Torie to eviscerate the cultural climate’s pathetic answer to a feminist take on an erotic thriller, THE HOUSEMAID (2025).
Starring everyone's favorite MAGA-loving bimbo, Sydney Sweeney, the phenomenally talented Amanda Seyfried, and a lesser-Hemsworth-coded hunk named Brendan Sklenar (who Josh looooves), this film undoubtedly caters to the tru
Euphoria Grads (Nate): WUTHERING HEIGHTS w/ Cecilia Conti & Josh Reinhold
If there’s one film that set tongues (literally) wagging this year, it’s the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece of gothic fiction, WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
Directed by one of cinema’s most de rigueur darlings, Emerald Fennell, WUTHERING HEIGHTS showcases Fennell’s trademark maximalism, bold subversiveness, and canny eye for visual magic tricks. The formula should have been a perfect match
Fun with Fish: THE LIGHTHOUSE w/ Ziah Grace
This is the final boarding call! The SITC submarine is departing port for one more journey 20,000 leagues under the sea. This time, the tentacular, mighty Poseidon of masculinity, King Triton, wields his whale dick, effectively blasting us with oozing gallons of salty sea.
Creator of the Hyperreal Film Journal and critic, Ziah Grace, joins Torie below deck to dissect Robert Eggers’s ferociously h
Fun with Fish: THE LURE (Córki dancingu) w/ Ziah Grace
Come back aboard the SITC submarine for the next descent into the trenches of taboo, where sexy sea creatures seamlessly seduce bone-headed humans.
Captain Torie is joined again by film critic and First Mate, Ziah Grace, for a delightful submersion into one of the best, boldest, and most ingenious takes on The Little Mermaid to ever grace the silver screen: the Polish, punk-rock, Eastern Bloc feve
Fun with Fish: THE SHAPE OF WATER w/ Ziah Grace
Hop on the SITC Submarine because we’re plummeting into the watery, murky depths of interspecies sex. This deep blue beyond is where fish and fowl Neptune and chill.
For this first journey beneath the waves, Torie is joined by Ziah Grace, Austin Chronicle “Best of Austin” 2025 nominee for Best Film Critic and misanthropic beach boy, to soak in Guillermo del Toro’s 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner,
50 SHADES OF GARBAGE: Freed Garbage w/ Chelsey Morin & Thien-Y Hoang
We’ve arrived at the bitter end. Torie and returning special guests Chelsey Morin and Thien-Y Hoang make their final trip to the 50 shades of garbage dump searching for anything of substance in the final installment of this trash film trilogy. Alas, 50 SHADES FREED proves the third time is not the charm.
Sulky sub Anastasia Steele and Dom daddy Christian Grey tie the knot (figuratively, not lit
SITC Late Night FM: HEATED RIVALRY! Part Deux w/ Billy Weston
SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains spoilers through the season finale of Heated Rivalry.
With the conclusion of Season 1, all us HR fans are sitting and processing our thoughts and feelings about the sleekly operatic, often playful, heart-throbbing, and ingeniously sincere story we just witnessed. Think pieces are bounteous across the editorial planes and the feelings are REAL. Torie and Billy
Boob Tube Detour: Lifetime™’s A CARPENTER CHRISTMAS ROMANCE w/ Cecilia Conti
*Note to the listeners*- For the most pleasurable listening experience, lube up with our January 2024 episode covering Sarah Drew’s A Cowboy Christmas Romance before you tune in.
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We’re returning to the 50 Shades of garbage dump soon, but in light of this festive season, SITC all-star guest star, Cecilia Conti, joins Torie to incinerate the most recent(ish) installment of sugar & spice from L
SITC Late Night FM: HEATED RIVALRY! w/ Billy Weston
SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains spoilers through episode 4 of HEATED RIVALRY
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun: L'Apres-midi d'un Faune Ballet performed by the Joffrey Ballet
50 SHADES OF GARBAGE: Darker Garbage w/ Chelsey Morin & Thien-Y Hoang
Torie and special guests Chelsey Morin and Thien-Y Hoang return to the 50 Shades of Grey garbage dump for the second installment in this stinking landfill of a film franchise, 50 SHADES DARKER. Don't bother to bring a shovel.
After being broken up for 2.5 seconds, newly deflowered Anastasia Steele and hunky millionaire Dom Christian Grey rekindle their love and get into a full-on relationship. As
50 SHADES OF GARBAGE: Grey Garbage w/ Chelsey Morin & Thien-Y Hoang
Welcome back, cinephiles and perverts, and welcome to Season Two of Sex in the Cinema!!!
To kick off Season Two, Torie is joined by Angelenos and expert hate-watchers Chelsey Morin and Thien-Y Hoang to demolish the cultural phenomenon that was the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy. From its humble beginnings in a Twilight fanfiction forum, to the published printed page, all the way to the silver screen, t
AMOROUS ANIMATION: Fritz the Cat, Once Upon a Girl, Belladonna of Sadness
Fasten your seatbelts, cinephiles, because it’s SITC’s Season 1 Finale!
Thanks to a few renegade, paintbrush-wielding perverts from New Hollywood’s anarchic yesteryear, you’re in for a full 411 on some of the most disturbing, disruptive, and innovative works of sketch-to-celluloid since Mickey Mouse first wet his wittle whistle in Steamboat Willie. As of this episode, your childhood nostalgia for
TITILLATING TRASH: Showgirls, Wild Things, Jade w/ Billy Weston
Friend of the pod and glamor-trash gay man-about-town Billy Weston joins Torie and Maggie to unpack three of the sexiest, messiest, and most titillatingly trashy erotic thrillers of the 1990s.
Jessie Spano trades textbooks for stripper poles to dance her way through a 24/7, nipple tweaking tantrum in Paul Verhoeven's infamous, eternally iconic TRASHterpiece, SHOWGIRLS (1995). Neve Campbell and De
RE-RELEASE - FULL FRONTAL FAVORITES PART 1: The Brown Bunny, The Dreamers, Boogie Nights
UPDATE, MAY 2025: This is a re-release of our premiere episode originally published on 8/9/23. As of May 2025, actor Michael Pitt was indicted for horrific sexual and physical abuse suffered by one or more partners. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.
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Torie and Maggie dive into cinematic rarity of films bol
EMMANUELLE MADNESS w/ Bryan Connolly
SITC is back in the studio with this long-awaited episode covering the softcore juggernaut that is the Emmanuelle film franchise!
Expert Bryan Connolly joins Torie to dissect this smutty phenomenon which is SO expansive and SO diverse, it's basically an ecosystem. From Thailand to Africa, to Outer Space, Emmanuelle knows no bounds.
In the original EMMANUELLE (1974) starring Sylvia Kristel, we wat
SPECIAL EPISODE: Babygirl
Torie and Maggie go full-on Siskel and Ebert for this special episode reviewing Nicole Kidman's latest in a series of steamy, psychosexual cinematic narratives, BABYGIRL.
Torie hated it and Maggie loved it but both ladies agree this flick with a feminist bent made a valuable contribution to the conversation around women, age and sexuality (aka debunking the myth that women become sexless empty ves
2025 AFTERGLOW AWARDS
Awards season is here is SITC is kicking off 2025 with our inaugural *AFTERGLOW AWARDS*!! With winners selected from the pool of every film covered on SITC to date, all winners of these prestigious awards have been carefully chosen by an esteemed panel of two (aka us). We also go into some long tangents around NOSFERATU, THE BRUTALIST, and movie theater hot dogs.
Check out the categories below a
WINTER SOLSTICE HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Love Witch, Virgin Witch, Hagazussa
Happy Yule, cinephile freaks! This holiday season we're celebrating the Winter Solstice in this very special episode starring wonton, willful and wonderful witches!
Self help goes lethally awry in Anna Biller's ingenious meta-Technicolor treasure THE LOVE WITCH (2016). Sexploitation is style over substance in the VIRGIN WITCH (1972). Cinematic art finds a new masterstroke in the haunting, enigmati
LYNCHIAN LECHERY: Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart
Trigger Warning: Please be advised this episode includes explicit discussion of sexual abuse and assault. This is a really tough one so tune out and take care if you need to <3
For the penultimate episode of 2024, we're kicking off our mini director retrospective series. Our first entry delves into modern cinema's ultimate Master of Macabre, David Lynch.
Baby talk reaches a new level of unacc
UNCUT AND UNRATED: Fratboy F**kery
SITC is back with a new installment of Uncut and Unrated - extended "director's cuts" of some of our favorite episodes.
FRATBOY F**KERY, our episode discussing a trio of "boys will be boys" blockbusters, returns to manspread its dick tentacles all over the airwaves. The original cut of this episode was released in April 2024 but the collective ethos of these misogynistic trash fires is now distinc
HOT(ISH) HORROR PART 2: The Fly, Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now
SITC is back with the long-awaited second installment of our horror series just in time for Halloween. Hot or not? You decide.
Body horror brings on the heat thanks to Jeff Goldblum's insectile sex symbol Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's classic remake of THE FLY (1986). Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland prove graphic sex can have narrative value in Nicolas Roeg's enigmatic meditation on gri
ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT ATTRACTION: Her, Ex Machina, Making Mr. Right
Can AI offer humans genuine connection? Can AI be trusted? It is worth it to bang a bot?!? Tune in for SITC's most thought-provoking episode to date in which Torie and Maggie disagree A LOT.
Oscar Isaac's misogynist tech bro gets served by the scariest sexbot of all time in Alex Garland's masterfully character-driven psychological mindf**k EX MACHINA (2014). A mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix turns up
CUMMING OF AGE CLASSICS PART 2: Y tu mamá también, Turn Me On Goddammit, Stealing Beauty w/ Cecilia Conti
Returning special guest Cecilia Conti joins Torie and Maggie to discuss three eminent coming of age narratives with some solid silver screen sex.
Cringe comedy has integrity and dick poking gets literal in TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT/FÅ MEG PÅ, FOR FAEN! (2011), a Norwegian hidden gem Torie incorrectly refers to as Swedish. Horney men run amok and Torie fails to distinguish Italian character names in B
SEX ON THE BEACH: The Blue Lagoon, Paradise, Summer Lovers
Quick note for our listeners. Apologies for minor technical issues, we recorded this "campfire episode" during a power outage on the first day of Mercury in Retrograde. Also, trigger warning for a brief mention of suicide in our coverage of the first film.
As we round out the summer, SITC is setting the scene on theme with three films featuring sex on the beach (coitus, not cocktails).
Torie and
LADIES IN LOVE: Desert Hearts, Blue is the Warmest Color, Personal Best
Holy tits! It's SITC's one-year anniversary!!! To mark this momentous occasion, we're covering three (markedly more) momentous classics of lesbian cinema.
Barren deserts and parched pussies get WET in the moving indie darling DESERT HEARTS (1985). Female pentathletes engage in erotic arm wrestling in PERSONAL BEST (1982). Torie and Maggie color commentate seven minutes of male gaze-infested f**kin
POETIC PERIOD PIECES: Cold Mountain, Shakespeare in Love, Dangerous Beauty
From love letters to love poems to lyrical Venetian rap-battles, these three historical dramas put the PEN in penis.
Jude Law makes a lot of noise playing a man of few words in COLD MOUNTAIN (2003). Verses get venereal in DANGEROUS BEAUTY (1998). Theatre once again proves its inherent queerness in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998).
UNCUT AND UNRATED: Religious and Raunchy
Welcome to Uncut and Unrated, SITC's version of the re-release.
Instead of a straight up re-post of an older episode, we're giving you the podcast equivalent of a Director's Cut.
SITC Uncut and Unrated includes everything we would have kept in - the digressions, the truly cringe-worthy anecdotes, and the content our paranoia convinced us would get us cancelled. LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK.
In the mea
FRATBOY F**KERY: Animal House, Porky's, American Pie
Trigger warning: this episode discusses themes of sexual and verbal assault, rape, and body shaming.
Welcome to the black hole of misogyny where "boys will be boys" and fratboy mentality reigned supreme to brainwash multiple generations.
Torie struggles to kill her darlings in the National Lampoon classic ANIMAL HOUSE (1978). Kim Cattrall is the only saving grace in the postulating butt boil tha
SPECIAL EPISODE: Saltburn
Okay, guys we hear you! Get ready to sweat and make those panties wet because we're covering SALTBURN.
This kaleidoscopic fever dream of millennial nostalgia has it all - full frontal fabulousness, fresh talent, eyeball-blisteringly hot sex and good f**king writing. From red wings to grave digging of a different color, this 2023 gem is a new classic.
CUMMING OF AGE CLASSICS PART 1: Cruel Intentions, Titanic, The Notebook
Torie and Maggie take a nostalgic trip back to the movies that not only made us (cum) but also shaped the hormones of an entire generation.
Brace yourself for some awkward adolescent anecdotes, friends. The cringe-factor of this episode gives PEN15 a run for its money.
Torie shares some borderline illegal memories about her pre-teen attempts to reenact one scene in particular from TITANIC (1997)
BOOB TUBE DETOUR: Lifetime's™ A Cowboy Christmas Romance w/ Cecilia Conti
We're taking a detour to the BOOB TUBE for this very special episode!
Lifetime™ made history last month with a first-ever SEX SCENE in one of their crap holiday films. In honor of this milestone, we indulged the sugar and spice with A COWBOY CHRISTMAS ROMANCE .
Special guest Cecilia Conti joins to rip apart this trash fire of a film that's complete with all those Lifetime™ tropes you know and love
SEXY SNACKS: Tampopo, 9 1/2 Weeks, La Grande Bouffe
Trigger warning: bodily functions and hedonism ahead!
Torie and Maggie revisit monochrome color palettes and smirking toxic seduction with 9 1/2 WEEKS (1986). Both ladies are left traumatized following their first watch of LA GRANDE BOUFFE (1973) and then rescued by the effervescently sexy and incomparably charming, TAMPOPO (1986).
BLOODSUCKING SAPPHIC SEDUCTION PART 2: The Vampire Lovers, Fascination, The Hunger
Some things are too good to keep tight so we pulled a Scorsese. Come sink your teeth into this supersized second installment of our Lesbian Vampire series.
Titties get top billing and Torie meets her redhead arch nemesis in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970). Male-female gender politics get fascinating treatment in the French gem FASCINATION (1979). The (un)holy trinity of hotness - David Bowie, Catherine
BLOODSUCKING SAPPHIC SEDUCTION PART 1: Vampyros Lesbos, Vampyres, Daughters of Darkness
Lesbian Vampires embody many things - beauty, ruthlessness, man-hating and the lustful intensity of a thousand Scorpios. They also have killer wardrobes (pun intended).
Torie and Maggie take their first bite into gratuitous sexploitation marred by a male victim's confusingly cringeworthy kissing in VAMPYRES (1974). They witness the most concentrated representation of Power Scorpio energy in cinem
FULL FRONTAL FAVORITES PART 2: American Gigolo, Shame, Velvet Goldmine
Torie and Maggie take another deep dive into the wide world of D on film (aka full frontal male nudity).
Maggie gets triggered by memories of her mom's TMI obsession with Richard Gere in AMERICAN GIGOLO (1980). Torie is rendered speechless by Michael Fassbender's well-endowed biology in SHAME (2011). Both ladies revisit and revel in the glitter-infused, glam rock fever dream VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)
RELIGIOUS AND RAUNCHY: The Last Temptation of Christ, The Crime of Father Amaro, The Name of the Rose
Heresy alert! Please be advised this episode contains some serious sacrilege.
Maggie drools over Gael Garcia Bernal in THE CRIME OF PADRE AMARO (2002). Torie gets a little/way too excited about THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988). Maggie gags on her sandwich during THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986), whereas Torie finds an unexpected new crush.
HOT(ISH) HORROR PART 1: Re-Animator, The Evil Dead, Bram Stoker's Dracula
Torie and Maggie explore the dark corners of paraphilia within the horror film genre. We encounter MedFet and necrophilia - not to mention some notable foreplay - in RE-ANIMATOR (1985), extreme "tree hugging" in THE EVIL DEAD (1981), and blood play seduction from the OG undead lothario in BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992).
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Welcome to Sex in the Cinema, the podcast that strips away the celluloid to the REAL reason you watched that movie.
Join your hosts Torie and Maggie - both cinephiles and proud horndogs - as they penetrate the annals of sex scenes in film - the good, the bad, the sexy and the seriously WTF un-sexy. The diverse spectrum of sex in cinema is pretty much an infinite climax.
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