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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Scanner : cinemax</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cinemax/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: cinemax</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Woman Is Shocked To Discover That Porn Is Disgusting</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/woman-is-shocked-to-discover-that-porn-is-disgusting.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:176669</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=176669</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/18/woman-is-shocked-to-discover-that-porn-is-disgusting.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/16-22/sfw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2009/02/16-22/sfw.jpg" border="0" height="418" width="306" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;We couldn&amp;#39;t resist having a laugh at the expense of Mimi Balfour, a Toronto mom who was &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; to discover that porn, even those films supposedly geared toward women, were &amp;quot;poorly art directed, poorly shot, it wasn&amp;#39;t sexy or intelligent and the guys weren&amp;#39;t that attractive.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(Sounds like a spot-on review of most Hollywood movies supposedly geared toward women.) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;But Balfour wasn&amp;#39;t going to take this lying down. She decided she&amp;#39;d make her own porno, entitled &lt;i&gt;Man of My Dreams&lt;/i&gt;... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;The Financial Post describes the film as&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;a collection of fantasy scenarios written, produced and directed by Ms.
Balfour, under Cleopatra Productions, is the result of five years of
pondering and research, including focus groups with women.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Five years to make a softcore porn movie? Geez, Cinemax used to crank those out every Thursday. And, at a profit, which a five-year-long porn project is unlikely to make...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Each scene is accompanied by music and can be watched in &amp;quot;learning
mode,&amp;quot; which includes popup fun facts about sex. For example, did you
know that orgasms can boost your immune system? Or that a teenage boy&amp;#39;s erection can last an hour?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Words cannot begin to describe our shock after having confronted those words.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The scenes are soft but steamy, with enough nudity and variations on
subtly simulated sex. Compared with conventional pornography, Man of My
Dreams has a clean, bright, cheeky and vaguely wholesome aesthetic.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt; &amp;quot;My children know that Mummy&amp;#39;s making a sexy movie,&amp;quot; she says.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Via &lt;a href="http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=1288081" target="_blank"&gt;the Financial Post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/12/abc-news-finally-figures-out-that-the-internet-is-for-porn.aspx"&gt;ABC News Finally Figures Out That the Internet is for Porn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/11/teen-boy-and-his-friends-busted-for-sending-nude-photos.aspx"&gt;Teen Boy and His Friends Busted for Sending Nude Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2009/02/06/mickey-rourke-enjoys-the-flasher-groupies-in-france.aspx"&gt;Mickey Rourke Enjoys the Flasher Groupies in France&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=176669" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/porn/default.aspx">porn</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/wtf/default.aspx">wtf</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/disgusting/default.aspx">disgusting</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/canada/default.aspx">canada</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/funny/default.aspx">funny</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/pornography/default.aspx">pornography</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/men+and+women/default.aspx">men and women</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/toronto/default.aspx">toronto</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cinemax/default.aspx">cinemax</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/adult+films/default.aspx">adult films</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/feminist/default.aspx">feminist</category></item><item><title>Top 5 Sex Scenes From Bad Movies</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/10/08/top-5-sex-scenes-from-bad-movies.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:134689</guid><dc:creator>Brian Fairbanks</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=134689</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/10/08/top-5-sex-scenes-from-bad-movies.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/10/08-15/friday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/10/08-15/friday.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;If we&amp;#39;ve learned anything from Hollywood, it&amp;#39;s that 30 seconds of sex is enough for people to endure two hours of terrible moviemaking. (Then again, as in the case of &lt;i&gt;The Girl Next Door&lt;/i&gt;, if you promise an &amp;quot;unrated&amp;quot; sex movie and deliver no nudity, barely any sex, and two hours of complete crap? You will pay.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Here are five of our favorites we haven&amp;#39;t been able to forget... all from movies we wish we could... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;5. &lt;i&gt;Basic Instinct 2&lt;/i&gt;. This sex scene is not even in the Top 200 of Good Sex Scenes From Bad Movies, mainly because it&amp;#39;s not a good sex scene. It looks like the film was sped up to make it look rougher, faster, and hotter. It only serves to make it look even more idiotic. We&amp;#39;re including it here for comic relief. (The clip we&amp;#39;re referring to starts at about 1:20.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/1261159/movie_clips_basic_instinc_2.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4. &lt;i&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/i&gt;. The original put all my friends to sleep at a late-night slumber party when we were kids-- it&amp;#39;s that scary. Rent Black Christmas (the original) or even Halloween (also the original) and you&amp;#39;ll do much better. But we like this nice little sex scene all the same...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/video/Video.aspx?VideoItemId=447" style="font-style:italic;" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to watch this scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;-- video on autoplay&lt;/span&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3. &lt;i&gt;Reindeer Games&lt;/i&gt;. Even Charlize Theron admits this movie sucks. But who doesn&amp;#39;t want to see her naked? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/93587/charlize_theron_sex_scene.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/93587/charlize_theron_sex_scene/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2. &lt;i&gt;The Doors&lt;/i&gt;. No matter what you think of Oliver Stone and Jim Morrison, you have to admit combining the two should be brilliant... or, at least, the right pairing for a movie. Too bad Stone focused on nothing but the debauchery and made a pointless movie that offered nothing new or interesting about the late singer. That doesn&amp;#39;t mean we don&amp;#39;t love this ridiculous and ultimately sexy sex scene: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;[&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/video/Video.aspx?VideoItemId=519" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to watch this scene&lt;/a&gt;-- video on autoplay&lt;/span&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1. &lt;i&gt;Original Sin&lt;/i&gt;. If not for this &amp;quot;action&amp;quot; sequence, no one would remember Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas&amp;#39; theatrical turd. This is the longest scene on this list and the one most likely to have ended up on Skinemax if not for the presence of A-list stars... it&amp;#39;s more than 2 minutes long, complete with an obnoxious orchestral score, and is about as soft-core as it gets. Enjoy. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/1344713/angelina_jolie_original_sin.swf" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="345" width="400"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/10/03/hot-or-not-the-lily-cole-playboy-cover.aspx"&gt;Hot or Not: The Lily Cole Playboy Cover?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/30/top-sex-scenes-from-the-1980s.aspx"&gt;Top 5 Sex Scenes From the 1980s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/23/top-5-jennifer-connelly-sex-scenes-nudity-counts.aspx"&gt;Top 5 Jennifer Connelly Sex Scenes (Nudity Counts!)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/24/sam-rockwell-too-busy-having-sex-with-you-to-learn-your-name.aspx"&gt;Sam Rockwell Too Busy Having Sex With You To Learn Your Name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/22/while-you-were-sleeping-posing-nude-for-fun-or-charity.aspx"&gt;While You Were Sleeping: Posing Nude For Fun Or Charity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/23/new-zealand-teacher-in-hot-water-for-her-other-job-as-a-hooker.aspx"&gt;New Zealand Teacher In Hot Water For Her Other Job As A Hooker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/2008/09/17/top-5-sex-scenes-from-chick-flicks.aspx"&gt;Top 5 Sex Scenes From &amp;quot;Chick Flicks&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=134689" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/charlize+theron/default.aspx">charlize theron</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/antonio+banderas/default.aspx">antonio banderas</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/horror+movies/default.aspx">horror movies</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/lists/default.aspx">lists</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sex+scenes/default.aspx">sex scenes</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/top+5+lists/default.aspx">top 5 lists</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nsfw/default.aspx">nsfw</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/angelina+joile/default.aspx">angelina joile</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/ben+affleck/default.aspx">ben affleck</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Oliver+Stone/default.aspx">Oliver Stone</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/nerve+sex+scenes/default.aspx">nerve sex scenes</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/sharon+stone/default.aspx">sharon stone</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/cinemax/default.aspx">cinemax</category></item></channel></rss>