Most articles about Longworth and her podcast start with something ethereal. But, the 'You Must Remember This' host, who has guided listeners through Hollywood's first century for over eight years, is more than just a soothsayer of cinema's history.
And there's no better person to do that than Karina Longworth.
Perhaps to understand the present we have to summon the past. It is a confusing time, augmented by both the normalization and proliferation of internet pornography, meaningful progress on conversations about sex, gender, identity and power, and a Hollywood film industry that has seemingly eliminated sexuality from a cinematic ecosystem that primarily courts comic book fans and children.
In the last days of Twitter, one thing is constant: there's barely a week that goes by before someone stirs the sex scenes in movies discourse pot.
