A whole lot of the year's best films have something in common: sex. Movies like Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights and the Alexander Skarsgård-starring Pillion are making the taboo not so taboo anymore. There's so much bedroom action on screen nowadays that writer Rich Juzwiak ran down all of the sex he's seen in cinemas this year—including one weird, but hilarious body-horror comedy. So, stay inside during the heatwave and let one of these films warm you up instead. You can find them below. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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If the back half can keep this pace, 2026 will end up a banner year for sex in cinema.
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Just halfway into 2026, there are already several shining examples of truly provocative movies that center sex: Emerald Fennell’s immediately notorious re-rub of Wuthering Heights, Harry Lighton’s so-called dom-com Pillion, Elliot Tuttle’s taboo-flouting Blue Film, and, uh, yet another dom-com from Gregg Araki, I Want Your Sex. From pegging to consensual nonmonogamy to the joys of sex work to tentacles, this year is full of novel depictions and true breakthroughs in representation. If the back half can keep this pace, 2026 will end up a banner year for sex in cinema.
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Stephen Breyer was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1994. He retired in 2022 after twenty-eight years on the bench. He’s now a professor at Harvard Law School. He was interviewed for Esquire on May 7.
"My father’s first piece of advice was, Stay on the payroll."
"The second was this: When you have a job, do it the best you can. If you do your job well, someone might notice, and you get a more important job. But maybe nobody will notice, and at least you will have done that job well."
"If you think you want the approval of some group, ha ha ha. You may sometimes get it. But you do one thing they don’t like, then you’re a traitor. And they say, 'We’d rather have somebody who never decided for us.'"
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There is a place that never faltered, where the lights stayed on and the looms kept humming.
“Welcome to Trion,” reads a monumental brick sign, “Home of Mount Vernon Mills & the Trion Bulldogs.” For 180 years Mount Vernon has been weaving in Georgia, first plain gray cloth and, later, denim. “We are the community,” says William H. “Bill” Rogers, president and CEO. “We actually house the town’s fire department; we employ around 500 people.” For all intents and purposes, Mount Vernon Mills is the last man standing, the only rope-dyed, indigo-range denim manufacturer left in the U.S.
Where Vidalia had aspired to be vertically integrated, Mount Vernon actually is—spinning, dying, weaving, and finishing, mainly for the industrial workwear market but also for fashion brands. As a result, when it comes to the future of American selvedge, all eyes are now on Trion.
“One thing I think people forget about when weaving denim, like in the situation of selvedge, they think you gotta have these looms,” says Rogers. “And yes, you need to have the looms, but they forget about everything else you have to have to produce denim. You have to have ball warping, you have to have rebeaming, you have to have an indigo range, which is a huge operation, because we still ring-dye indigo to produce what we consider a true, authentic denim.” Thankfully, Mount Vernon has all of those capacities and, as of last October, Vidalia’s Draper looms too, which are slated to begin bouncing again this year.
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