I Want Your Sex 🔞

😁🔞  I Want Your Sex, dir. Gregg Araki, 2026, USA, 90 min.
Friday, June 19, 2026, 6:15 PM, Castro Theatre
🌉 Bay Area premiere
⚠️🔞 abundant explicit sexual talk and action, including kink, dom/sub, workplace relationship

I Want Your Sex (Gregg Araki)

Frameline blurb: Making a vibrant return to the big screen after 12 long years, legendary American auteur and past Frameline Award recipient Gregg Araki fuses a modern sex comedy for these roaring 2020s with his signature brand of quotable one-liners and romantic nihilism. When bored and sexually frustrated Gen Zer, Elliot (Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza), lands his first real job assisting anti-woke art star Erika Tracy (an extra thirsty Olivia Wilde), it isn't long before “erotic muse” and “sex slave” are added to his job description. Apologies to Miranda Priestly and Nicole “Babygirl” Kidman, but if you prefer ball gags, hideous art, pegging on the clock, and Slowdive needle drops with your workplace power dynamics, Araki has just what you've been looking for.

Thoroughly entertaining and pointedly sex-positive, I Want Your Sex is an irreverent but impassioned plea to the youth of today — a generation labeled as “uptight prudes” (whether accurate or not) — to fuck! And to help make this point, Araki has enlisted Mason Gooding as a horny artfag, Charli XCX as a frigid med student, Chase Sui Wonders as Elliot's tomboy bestie, and Margaret Cho and Johnny Knoxville as the film's own Benson & Stabler.

My take: My favorite Gregg Araki film is Mysterious Skin (2005), but Araki has had an outsized influence on queer cinema, even having been off working on television and not having released a feature film in over a decade. I Want Your Sex is a surreal fever dream of an acid trip, not skirting around the dark corners, but diving headlong into them, with multiple mind-warping plot twists through an unabashedly kink-intensive story. The characters directly acknowledge that the relationship of employer Erika and employee Elliot would be an absolute H.R. nightmare, but decide, hey, why not? And then things get weirder and weirder.

If you’re a Gregg Araki fan, or interested in queer film history (and history in the making), this film is absolutely a must see, but even if you’re not, provided you’re not scared off by the outré sexuality (which is much more talked about than actually shown explicitly on screen), I Want Your Sex is definitely highly recommended.

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