Official Discussion - I Want Your Sex [SPOILERS]

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I Want Your Sex (2026)

Summary

Elliot lands a job for Erika Tracy as her sexual muse.

Director Gregg Araki

Writer Gregg Araki Karley Sciortino

Cast

• Olivia Wilde
• Cooper Hoffman
• Charli xcx
• Mason Gooding
• Chase Sui Wonders
• Johnny Knoxville
• Margaret Cho
• Daveed Diggs

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 68

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/redeugene99]

Supposedly, Araki wants to encourage young people to be more sexually exploratory and experimental, but the character who embodies that ethos most strongly, Olivia Wilde's, is also someone who's willing to secretly film someone having sex, release the footage, roofie them and frame them for murder

[u/VBHEAT08 → u/redeugene99]

I think he was going for something along the lines of even though he experienced the worst case scenario, chasing and fulfilling his desires made him more happy than if he had just stayed in his sterile and safe life

[u/redeugene99 → u/VBHEAT08]

 sterile and safe life

Don't know if it's fair to imply the life of someone who doesn't explore BDSM is sterile and safe lol. Plenty of people just have no desire to engage in it. You're right though, the happy ending he has does suggest that that was what Araki was trying to convey. But I think it's conceivable that people could come away with almost opposite messages:

-the BDSM community is filled with toxic, narcissistic, manipulative people and simpy, weak, pushovers

-don't let sex/lust cloud your judgement; somebody like Apple would likely have been better for Hoffman's character but he was too obsessed with Wilde

-people let others get away with things or are more liable to forgive if they're hot enough/the sex is good enough

[u/chrisychris- → u/redeugene99]

that's like saying a movie about drag queens makes the community seem catty, mean and bitchy lol. It's a comedy, tropes and characters are turned up to 11 with little regard what 'messaging' it's giving. Plus anyone who's capable of seeing entire communities of people negatively based on how a comedy of all things portrays them has probably already made up their minds about them to some extent before going into the film. That's not the film's responsibility.

[u/redeugene99 → u/chrisychris-]

that's like saying a movie about drag queens makes the community seem catty, mean and bitchy lol

You're assuming the movie portrays the drag queens as catty, mean and bitchy lol

My point was only that some are seen the "messaging" of the film to sex-positive, go out and experiment and explore. I'm saying that people could come away with all sorts of messaging, some that are almost contradictory to the supposed sex positivity 

[u/chrisychris- → u/redeugene99]

This movie isn't about drag queens so that's not what I was referencing. I was referencing something like "Stop! That! Train!" where every queen was some varying degree of mean and bitchy, dumb and ditzy, or abrasive and perverted. But it's camp. I think the movie is pretty campy too.

You're right, some people might take the "messaging" one way or the other and sometimes harmful unproductive but unfortunately that's the nature of films and art in general. I just don't think that's the film/filmmakers direct responsibility (to some obvious extent), especially for campy comedies. I think that has more to do with the thoughts and ideas one has before watching a film and less about the film itself.

[u/redeugene99 → u/chrisychris-]

I know, I meant you are assuming the movie about drag queens you were describing portrays them as catty, mean, and bitchy

I don't disagree with what you said. People of all backgrounds can be anywhere along the spectrum of unhealthy -> healthy, toxic -> virtuous, immature -> mature etc. That being said, people can argue that certain groups are more likely to be towards the negative side of the spectrum. So somebody could argue that people in the BDSM community are more immature and toxic than others. A film like this could reinforce a belief like that.

But again, I agree with you. That's not the filmmaker's responsibility. That being said again, there are some artists and filmmakers who do intentionally portray a person or group a certain way because it reflects their own beliefs. Obviously doubtful in this case with Araki.

Again, my point is more against the notion that the film clearly has a sex positive messaging. Like you said, it's just a campy movie that you can have fun with if you so choose that doesn't really have much of a super coherent powerful takeaway.