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When does superhero cosplay slide over into becoming fetishwear? When it gets too shiny. And too kinky. More »
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Juha Arvid Helminen unnerves with his Shadow People, a dreamily creepy series of black-on-black photos that evokes The Invisible Man and Silent Hill's Pyramid Head monsters. His black-wrapped subjects are amassing an army to march through your nightmares. More »
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I love it when some random B-movie from the 1950s delivers a scene of such inventive perviness that it could only have been created in a sexually-repressive culture. Such is the case with this outrageous (and yet work-safe) scene from 1959 flick The Head, where mad Dr. Ood has grafted the head of a hunchback nun onto the body of a stripper (using Serum Z of course). After the operation, the nun-headed stripper approaches Dr. Ood with new desires . . . for things like cigarettes and porn. More »
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We've been huge fans of Richard Kadrey's writing ever since we read his seminal cyberpunk novel Metrophage, and we've been lucky enough to hear him read several times from his stories of the bizarre sex lives of mutant assassins. So we were thrilled when we found out he also creates gorgeous, disturbing fetish art under the name Kaos Beauty Klinik. His breathtaking work — including women with actual tentacles and gorgeous women who are masked and mysterious — reminds us of the freakish beauty of Joel Peter Witkin's art. Click through for a (NSFW) gallery. More »
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Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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