“I'm a whore. All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.” — William Holden (and half of Hollywood, probably)
Editor’s Note: If Volume 1 was a glitter-soaked protest in nipple pasties and neon, then Volume 2 is the movie adaptation—unrated, unfiltered, and directed by your inner erotic auteur. Welcome to Ciné-Pornotopia: where cinema doesn’t just watch—it moans, bites back, and calls the shots.
Here, the camera doesn’t just capture sex—it reclaims it. Every pan, every zoom, every gratuitous close-up is a resistance movement wrapped in reel. This is the cinematic underworld where auteurs are perverts, porn stars are philosophers, and every frame is dripping in subversion and lube.
This isn’t just cinema. It’s celluloid seduction, filmic resistance, and erotica with a director’s cut. Forget Hollywood. This is Holy-Wet. Because yes, Pornotopia loves a dirty reel and a clean conscience.
Fig.1 House of ERIKALUST- immersive eroticism through the films of Erika Lust. Portfolio of Layers of Reality, content creation studio for augmented reality
Fig.2 N. a pris les dés (1971) directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, starring Catherine Jourdan. (Credits Unifrance)
Fig.3 Page 9 of the John Willie serial Sweet Gwendoline and the Race for The Gold Cup (1958).
Fig.4 Lysistrata - Vintage Movie Poster Print (via Posterazzi)
🎥 Insta-News of the Day: ‘As mainstream cinemas fight for survival, a micro grindhouse in London is offering hope through freaky programming and analogue formats…’ – Euronews.
🍿#CinéPornotopia Insta-teaser. NOW SCREENING: Wild, Weird & NSFW
Meet The Nickel—London’s wildest new grindhouse cinema 💥 A blood-red fever dream for cinephiles, queerdos, and sleaze connoisseurs. 🎬 One screen. All kink. Zero algorithm.
Launched by filmmaker Dominic Hicks (aka your local anti-Netflix priest of pulp), it’s a shrine to subversive, sexy, and psychotronic cinema. 🖕📺 “NO to the Netflix Disney death machine!” ❤️ 🔥 YES to communal horniness, VHS filth, and 35mm rebellion. From Paris to Liverpool and now London, micro-cinemas are rising. Long live the DIY pornoverse.#MakeEroticArtNotWars
Opening Credits: Fever Dreams Are Made of This
Ciné-Pornotopia meets filmic fever dreams—where visual pleasure is sacred, not censored. Where eroticism meets auteurs, sex meets subversion, and the screen sweats.
Cinematic erotica has always been a form of rebellion: from 1920s silent sin to 1970s golden-age porn to today’s feminist, queer, and post-porn visionaries.
In a world obsessed with destruction, orgasm is resistance. Every uncensored body is a protest. Every rope tie, nipple pic, and radical act of pleasure reclaims a piece of the world from war, shame, and silence.
Fig.5 Personal Sentimentalism in Photography, 2000 by Nobuyoshi Araki (Artsy.Net Gallery)
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Fig.6 Podcast Erika Lust is reshaping the adult industry—and our desires
Fig.7 Press Photo of Trans-Europ Express, 1966 experimental film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-France Pisier
Fig.8 Prehistoric Patriotika Print by Budd Root, 2020. (Credits MyComicShop)
Lights, Camera, Liberation
Before we roll the opening credits, a quick cut to the real world: The Nickel might be small, but in an era of digital disconnection and algorithmic ennui, it’s part of a growing underground cinema uprising across Europe. Think DIY film clubs and hyperlocal kink-positive screens taking on the monoculture of Netflix and multiplexes.
From Liverpool’s trans-inclusive Paraphysis Cinema to Paris’ feminist film haven Tonnerre, these pop-up sanctuaries are where cinephiles go to experience subversive oddities the way they were meant to be seen: collectively, loudly, and with lube.
Fig.9 Some of the kick ass moves seen in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, 1965. (Credits Scene360)
Fig.10 Release poster, famous classic erotic movies - Russ Meyer’s Vixen!, 1968 satiric softcore sexploitation film starring Erica Gavin and first US film to be given an X rating sex scenes
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- Scene One: In the Mood for Erotic Love (and Cinematic Rebellion)
- Spotlight: House of ERIKALUST
- Director’s Cut: A Quick(ie) History of Cinematic Erotica
- Genre-Benders: When Porn Met Art (and Nobody Wore Pants)
- Side Salad: Popcorn & Post-Porn – Your Cinerotophile Starter Pack (Must-Watch Films/ Streaming Platforms/ Femme Film Theory Required Reading)
- Final Reel: What Is Ciné-Pornotopia Really About?
- Announcement of PORNOTOPIA Volume 3. The Museum of Kink – TIE ME UP: LATEX, ROPES, ANARCHY AND EROS
- and 52 additional arousing images + videos offering an eclectic mix of erotica.
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