Looking to screen your sexy short film about your favorite fetish? Have a documentary about domination that's dying to see daylight? CineKink wants you! Submit your films about anything sexy (or sex-related) to the 2009 CineKink NYC film festival, and it just could be your ticket to film fame and fortune! Alliterative titles optional. (cinekink.com)

Despite recent high profile split second sort-of-lesbian makeout sessions to the contrary, we don't usually associate the films of Woody Allen (or Woody Allen himself for that matter) with hot sexy sex. But that didn't stop the culture vultures at NY Mag from compiling a list of the top ten sex scenes in his movies. (Spoiler alert: The Orgasmatron didn't even make #1! Maybe he's sexier than we gave him credit for.) (nymag.com + youtube.com)

This Week On The Fleshbot Calendar: How To Relive Your Misspent Youth

Next week, the Clinton Street Theater in Portland will be hosting a special screening of two hardcore porn classics from the '70s and '80s on the big screen ... and on real film! (Afterward, you can head across town and catch "The Dark Cock.") How would you know about this? Because it's on the Fleshbot Calendar, of course! More »

Attention all erotic Eisensteins and fornicating Fellinis: Venerable sex toy retailer Good Vibrations is seeking your submissions for their Third Annual Amateur Erotic Film Festival, and you have until September 25th to show them what you've got (or at least what you've managed to record on your video camera.) Surely someone reading this has it in them to produce the amateur porn version of "La Dolce Vita", if not its "Battleship Potemkin"? (goodvibes.com; see last year's winners here)

Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival Goes To ... Madrid?

Heads up, international porn fans: the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (FICEB) will be taking place this weekend—though for reasons that are unclear to us, it will be held in Madrid. (¡Que loco!) Alas, with gas prices and airline tickets and the US dollar being what they are, we're going to be missing out on the fun ... and from the list of porn celebrities in attendance (Sylvia Saint! Nacho Vidal!) it looks like there's going to be a lot of fun. Anyone want to be our unofficial correspondent? We'll even send you a Fleshbot paint-by-numbers press badge that may or may not get you anywhere! (ficeb.com)

Amateur Porn @ HUMP-O-Ween 2008: Be Afraid

Those crazy porn-lovin' kids at Seattle's Stranger are at it again! No, it has nothing to do with their embarrassing get-off-my-leg-in-public habit (well, mostly): turns out they're having another amateur porn festival. Every year HUMP! has been a showcase of superlative indie porn that's shown only during the festival and destroyed afterward—prizes are awarded and everyone comes away with plenty of happy memories and wank material that lives on in their minds (and squishy bits) for years to come. This year they've moved the festivities to the end of October and are promising to scare the pants off all comers with HUMP-O-Ween. The deadline (heh) is October first and all details are on their website. We just hope that the clown porn thing isn't too much of a trend this year. Eek! More »

And speaking of Lorelei Lee... if you're in New York for the Tribeca Film Festival this week, be sure to catch her (and the lovely Princess Donna) in Brian Lilla's short-but-oh so sweet "Tale of Two Bondage Models". Granted, we don't usually watch these two lovelies while in a crowded theater surrounded by strangers—but after the first few minutes, we're pretty sure we'll adjust. (tribecafilmfestival.org)

Her (Very) Sexy Art School Summer

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"Bat Pussy" Wants To Be Free

Given the fact that "Bat Pussy" has languished in almost criminal obscurity for the last several decades, you can excuse us for taking so long to discover it ourselves since our pal Susie Bright posted about it on her blog a few weeks ago. But now that we've seen this caped crusader thundering across the landscape on her giant inflatable ball thingie en route to offering sexual assistance to beleagured married couples everywhere (at least we think that's what the movie is about; it's sort of hard to tell), we're intrigued to see more. After all, if "Malabimba: The Malicious Whore" can see the light of day on DVD after all this time, doesn't this rattily caped crusader with the twitching twat deserve a little love too? More »

And while we're on the topic of smart, talented women (and men!) who make porn ... think you have what it takes to be the next great erotic film auteur? Good Vibrations just announced that the deadline for entering their 3rd Annual Amateur Erotic Film Competition is September 25, 2008. Guidelines for entries will be coming soon, but feel free to check out the past years' entries for ... uh, inspiration. (goodvibes.com)

We may have been asleep at the wheel when The Pornography of the Bicycle rolled through LA and SF last month, but thankfully, the uber-hot trailer lives forever online (despite YouTube's best efforts). It almost makes us want to do a little riding ourselves... Especially because we see NY on the film's upcoming tour list. (bikeporntour.blogspot.com, via Laughing Squid)

The AVN Awards will stop giving separate prizes for film and video starting in 2009. Looks like any "Upload" sequels will just have to settle for Oscars. (avn.com; gallery of 2008 host Tera Patrick @ kellyfind.com)

Movie Sex Scenes, Take Two

Movie remakes are usually iffy propositions. If you're trying to update a beloved cinema classic, no matter how good the end result, it's going to be tough to top the fans' memories of the original. There's one area, however, where the remake almost always has a clear advantage and that's when it comes to re-imagining the onscreen boinking. More »

"Sex Life Of Robots"

If you're a certain kind of high-tech fetishist, your options are pretty limited when it comes to indulging your hot robot love fantasies: either you can grab a willing partner or two and go the whole cosplay route, or limit your explorations to comic art or written erotica (and where's the fun in that?) Fortunately, artist and filmmaker Michael Sullivan has come to the rescue with his work-in-progress "Sex Life Of Robots", which is ...well, pretty much exactly what it sounds like: "It's supposed to be like a silent robot porno movie from another planet." More »

"Xperimental Eros": Free Your Mind (And The Boobs Will Follow)

Usually, the only thing that sends us running for the hills more than wonton overuse of the word "eros" is seeing a porn flick described as "experimental". So we have to admit feeling some trepidation when we received a screener copy of Bay Area-based Other Cinema's new "Xperimental Eros"—that is, until we decided to pop it in as video wallpaper during a recent party and found our guests crowding around the television asking us what they were watching and how they could get a copy instead of complimenting us on the tasty rumaki we had spent all afternoon slaving over a hot stove to serve them. Bastards. More »

Los Angeles Erotic Film Fest 2007: Wrap It Up

I'll totally admit to being a blog brat when I showed up halfway through the "Classics" panel at the Xfanz Los Angeles Erotic Film Festival this weekend, snuggled up to Eon Mckai and Dana DeArmond, and giggled snarkily at all the cranky "you kids these days and your viagra" complaints. But when I finally stopped ogling Joanna Angel and humping Michelle Aston's leg, it turns out that the two-day event was well worth the trip. More »

Actiongirls Hit The Big Time: "Soldiers Of The Dead"

Let's face it: sexploitation movies get a bad rap. Sure, vintage jiggle flicks have their diehard fans, and every so often a big time director like Quentin Tarantino or a Robert Rodriguez will come along and tip their hat to the genre, but save for a DVD reissue every now and then and the occasional screening on the midnight movie circuit, they've pretty much been relegated to the sidelines of cinematic art. So we're happy to see that director and Actiongirls.com majordomo Scotty JX is giving sexploitation flicks a much needed silicone and gunpowder-infused shot in the arm with "Soldiers Of The Dead", which was reportedly shot with a five million dollar budget (all those paysite subscription must add up) and is currently being readied for theatrical release. More »

And while we're all busy saving the earth today, let's take a look at what may be the the world's first botanical porn film. Admit it—you've always thought there was something sexy about all that hot pistil and stamen action you learned about in biology class. (sexblo.gs)

"Passion And Power": Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Vibrators, But Were Too Busy Getting Off To Ask

This past Saturday, in a great leap forward for womankind, the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York played host to a movie about the history of vibrators. Based on "The Technology of Orgasm," a fantastic and obsessively footnoted book by accidental-vibrator-scholar Rachel Maines (she used to study nineteenth century needlepoint, and you know how one thing leads to another), the film gives celluloid life to a story that needed to be told. More »

Nearly fifty years ago, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was the ultimate dirty book, banned everywhere from the UK to India for its racy content; now, a French movie adaptation of it is getting rave reviews from the Gray Lady herself. We guess that's progress, even if it makes it seem a lot less dirty. (sexerati.com)

Remembering Noel Graydon: "Liberty In Restraint"

Most of the time, discovering the work of a talented fetish photographer isn't the sort of thing that bums us out here at Fleshbot—in fact, it usually makes our blossoms tingle with all sorts of happy thoughts—but we couldn't help feeling sad while we were perusing the online portfolio of Sydney photographer and BDSM master Noel Graydon, who our friends at the Cinekink erotic film festival inform us died last week at the age of 36. Graydon, who was the subject of the award-winning documentary "Liberty In Restraint" a few years ago, leaves behind a body of work that's as notable for its artistic polish as well as for his use of a wide range of models and a sensitive (and very sexy) approach to his subject matter; no matter how outlandish all those ropes and chains and full body latex bondage outfits may appear to the casual observer, you never forget that the folks wearing them are real people. As far as legacies go, there are a lot worse things one can leave behind. More »

Blogs are buzzing this week over this YouTube clip celebrating European Union unity and the achievements of European film, though we're a little disappointed in the execution. We totally thought Luxembourg was bi. (youtube.com, via everyone)

Playtime With Honey And Bunny

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2007 XFANZ Erotica Film Festival

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"The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai"

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Anna Biller: "Viva"

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Francesco Vezzoli's "Caligula" on YouTube

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"Russ Meyer: King Of Sexploitation" on YouTube

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"Meat Weed America"

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Artvamp: "Other People's Mirrors"

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Michele Capozzi: "Pornology"

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Barcelona Erotic Film Festival 2006

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Photos (and Films) by Mia Donovan

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The Films of Tinto Brass

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Francesco Vezzoli's "Caligula"

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