Catherine Gigante-Brown

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

Wrinkles or lifelines? Chunky or curvaceous? The choice is yours.

Candida Royalle pretty much invented couples erotica. She made it socially-acceptable. Respectable. The women in her films looked like real women and had real, comfortable female bodies. And her movies actually had stories. Good stories. She hired her friends—adult legends like Annie Sprinkle, Veronicas Hart and Vera, and Gloria Leonard — to create Femme films too.

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”

A midtown Manhattan studio was recently the site of liberation-both on and offscreen-when Shenshean

I try. I really do. But whenever I attempt to embrace my husband Peter’s Cuban culture, I always screw up.

raunchy renaissance woman. multimedia artist. probably a slut.

At first, I felt like an abandoned ten-year-old, dropped off at a remote summer camp—with the extra added attraction of no cell phone reception or Wi-Fi. I thought the hardest part of the weekend was going to be picking out a robe. Boy, was I wrong!

It sounded too good to be true: comfortable, attractive bra inserts for breast cancer survivors like me. I got on the computer, checked out their website, and immediately put in for one.

You learn a lot about people when you live in their home. The Taylors seemed to lead a joyless, Spartan existence.