There are few characters as alluring and fascinating in classic cinema as the Femme Fatale. Their dark eyes and their curvy hips. The way they crawl into the hero’s skin. They way they give men something to fear and something to be aroused by and the way they make women envious but represent freedom and [...]

Contrary to popular belief the United States has always been a bit more conservative than its peers of modern western civilization. When those Puritans toddled over to escape King James’s religious persecution they brought with them a few boat loads of social hangups that have managed to persist in American culture well into the modern [...]