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The intercom in Mr. Haywood's office has the power to turn a corporate shark into a ravening sex-beast at the flick of a button, in The Ultimate Attraction. Scifi is full of devices that can crank up anyone's sex drive to 150 percent, including sex-rays, drugs and alien organisms. Click through for our roundup of the craziest aphrodisiacs in science fiction, but watch out: It's all work-safe, as long as you don't watch some of the NSFW clips.
The intercom in Mr. Haywood's office has the power to turn a corporate shark into a ravening sex-beast at the flick of a button, in The Ultimate Attraction. Scifi is full of devices that can crank up anyone's sex drive to 150 percent, including sex-rays, drugs and alien organisms. Click through for our roundup of the craziest aphrodisiacs in science fiction, but watch out: It's all work-safe, as long as you don't watch some of the NSFW clips.
I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1975). One of those bizarre Britsploitation films that could only have come from the groovy 70s. Barry Andrews is a virgin who goes to work in a weird sex research institute, where patients run around naked and everybody does nude aerobics. But Andrews still can't seduce the hot secretary — until he invents a machine (nicknamed Agnes for some reason) which puts out a "sonic aphrodisiac" which turns anyone into a sex maniac. Andrews doesn't quite manage to seduce Cheryl the secretary, but does have fun using Agnes on his overbearing boss, and a pesky woman who's campaigning for moral decency.
Randy The Electric Lady (1978). Desiree Cousteau plays Randy, who's having a hard time reaching climax — until she goes to a weird sex clinic, where she manages to climax so hard, she explodes all their computers and measuring instruments. Then the researchers realize that Randy secretes a special substance called Orgasmine when she climaxes, and everybody who's exposed to Orgasmine turns into an easily controlled sex rabbit. Of course, being a mad sex doctor, the head researcher Dr. Harrison wants to use Orgasmine to RULE THE WORLD! Bwa ha ha ha....
The Ultimate Attraction (1998). The source of the clip featured above. Written by scifi pornmaster Rolfe Kanefsky, Ultimate is loosely (and I stress "loosely") based on the classic comic Click by Milo Manara. But whereas in Manara's comic, a woman has a brain implant that cranks up her sex drive at the twist of a dial, Kanefsky's version is a directional beam that affects anyone you point it at. And somehow, in the course of Ultimate's storyline about a troubled mom-and-pop gym that finds a sex-ray, the device gets changed so that any electrical device can turn into a horniness inducer. Like the boombox in this clip, where a bodybuilder's walkman runs out of batteries:
Flesh Gordon (1974). The Emperor Wang is using a "sex ray" to turn everyone on Earth into uncontrollable sex maniacs. So it's up to Flesh and his friends to stop him. At least it's better than the awful sequel, in which a supervillain tries to use an "impotence ray" to rob Earth of all its virility. Ugh.
Flash Gordon (1980). Weirdly enough, both Gordon films feature the villain using technology to make people into sex-fiends. In Flash, Ming uses his weird power ring to hypnotize Dale Arden into performing a sexy dance for him.
Shivers (1975). David Cronenberg's third film includes much of the "body horror" for which he became famous. A parasite which scientists developed to replace damaged or diseased organs goes out of control and starts turning men and women into sexual predators. The host can only spread by having its victims sexually overwhelm other people, and a new self-contained tower building becomes a perfect breeding ground. There are lots of bloody scenes of mangled faces, and then it ends up with the world's most disturbing pool party:
The host can only spread by having its victims sexually overwhelm other people, and a new self-contained tower building becomes a perfect breeding ground. There are lots of bloody scenes of mangled faces, and then it ends up with the world's most disturbing pool party: 
Torchwood, "Day One" Trust crazy Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood to go way, way over the top when it comes to alien sex-parasites. A purpley gas takes over Carys, a lovelorn woman, and turns her into a hot sexpot who goes around seducing men... and then reducing them to a little powder when they orgasm. She seems to have the power to sex-craze other people too, since she's able to get the straight (as far as we know) Gwen into a hot snog-a-thon. Here's her best moment:
The Curious Dr. Humpp (1966). We've already sung the praises of this bizarre hybrid movie. Dr. Hummp needs to absorb the erotic energy from rabbiting nymphomaniacs to keep himself and his pet brain healthy, so he kidnaps nubile young people and keeps dosing them with powerful aphrodisiacs to keep them in the mood.
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I WANT THAT BUTTON!
World's Second Most Disturbing Pool Party, after Jose Canseco's Steriods & BBQ Pool Party.
I though u'd leave out Torchwood! Good that you didn't, cus I'd be coming after you... Anyhoo, Cary's best moment was with Gwen, btw ;)
That episode of Torchwood sounds eerily like the movie Liquid Sky, about an alien ship that lands on the roof of a 1982 NYC supermodel's apartment building. They put some kind of hoodoo on her, and for the rest of the movie, whenever anyone has sex with the model, the aliens reduce him or her to dust. Very weird and non-sexy sex scenes in that movie.
Demon Seed !!!
That boombox would get people to go to the gym on a regular basis.
Curious Dr. Humpp is hella crazy.
And yes, I would call her Margo.
What? No mention of "Liquid Sky" and the aliens that extract orgasm-produced endorphins from the brains of their victims?
@PAgent: Just watched a bit of Liquid Sky the other day... but the aliens don't make ppl horny, do they? Or do they?
Wasn't there an "Outer Limits" episode where an alien parasite turned sweet little Alyssa Milano into a bisexual nymphomaniac?
@Frozen-Tex:
No, that was real life.
What, no Percy love? The first movie about a penis transplant (Oliver Reed, no less), and a gorgeous Kinks score to boot.
ORGAZMO!
NOW YOU'RE A MAAAAAWN!
I watched "Liquid Sky" in a double feature with "Blue Velvet". Afterwards I just wanted to take a long hot shower.
I wonder why the audio cassette became obsolete...
That episode of Torchwood was awful, and I can't help but point how blatant it's familiarities with the Angel episode Lonely Hearts, complete with being the second episode of the first season.
@lightninglouie: Bwa!? Tell me more about this movie. Sounds glorious.
Nice catch on the liquid sky mentioned earlier. I very much enjoyed that very low budget yet oddly enticing movie and shivers is an oldschool cronenberg that I'd love to see him delve into again, that or re-explore some of the the themes of videodrome with the newer technologies in mind (it doesn't have to, it still stands apart in my mind from even the technology/control of television, but that doesn't mean he couldn't do a killer job on the current and near future tech).
Cronenberg will never cease to impress me, and "Oh, Mr. Haywood!" was fantastically funny.
"I watched "Liquid Sky" in a double feature with "Blue Velvet". Afterwards I just wanted to take a long hot shower."
-Dennis hopper has been known to cause PTSD in an estimated 25% of viewers of Blue Velvet. Have you felt paranoid, depressed or lashed out recently?
Wasn't there a sex virus on Star Trek TNG that had Tasha banging Data?
Insert your own vibrator joke here.
@Frozen-Tex: "Wasn't there an "Outer Limits" episode where an alien parasite turned sweet little Alyssa Milano into a bisexual nymphomaniac?"
Yes there was. The episode is called "Caught in the Act" and it's on the "Sex & Science Fiction" dvd. I do not regret the money I spent on this dvd as it is a masterpiece of .... um... well, it's got her boobies. And it's nowhere near as hard to watch as "Embrace of the Vampire." (which I also own and I feel it has much better "video quality" if you catch my drift..."
The essay on the movie "Shivers" brings to my mind the classic Poe story The Masque of the Red Death, in which a wealthy and eccentric nobleman and his friends attempt to shut themselves away from a plague and end up trapped in a castle with a monstrous walking horror.
@JohnnyZito: The Star Trek virus was an all-around disinhibitor, which is why Wesley Crusher flipped out and took over engineering while LaForge indulged in a "blindness sucks" pity party. However, it did inspire Yar to hook up with Data, caused Troi to mack on Riker, and led to some heavy breathing between Dr. Crusher and Picard.
*takes notes*
*updates Netflix queue*
I definitely spotted porn star Stephanie Swift in that gym scene. Not that I'm especially familiar with her work or anything.
@laughingacademy: I assumed Crusher's reaction was sexually motivated as well.
Randy, The Electric Lady...the first porno I ever saw when I was about 11 years old. Caught it on Philly's Prism channel late-night. Of course, since it was over cable, they had to cover bits up here and there. There's a scene where Randy is performing oral sex on one of the doctors in a gazebo. The camera moved around the gazebo during the shot, and oddly enough that same bush managed to be in front of all of the good bits the whole way around...
Another one missed...The Sex Machine. A post-apocalyptic "thriller" documenting a scientist's endeavours to harness the energy produced during the sex act after the world completely depletes the energy supply. Even at 12, all of the boobs couldn't make this an interesting flick..
@ThatGuyOverThere:
"hard to watch"
lol
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