film / 2026
I Want Your Sex
A young assistant enters a dominant relationship with a famous artist and becomes part of a hoax designed to turn scandal into profit.
Verified facts
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Gregg Araki
- Released
- 2026
- Origin
- United States
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Why read this explainer
The gallery exhibition and police inquiry expose different stages of Erika's control. Keep the private relationship separate from the publicity she builds around it.
PlotGeeks note
Erika controls the recordings and the publicity surrounding her apparent death. Elliot later profits from the notoriety, extending the consequences of the hoax beyond the exhibition.
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Timeline
Major events
- Erika hires Elliot
Professional access becomes a sexual relationship controlled by the artist.
- The gallery exposes the recordings
Private encounters become public material without Elliot's consent.
- Erika appears to die
The staged pool scene turns Elliot into the suspect in her publicity plan.
- The wedding melts away
A shared nightmare replaces romantic closure with continuing unease.
Story in 60 Seconds
The short version
Unemployed Elliot becomes an assistant to provocative artist Erika Tracy and begins a BDSM relationship with her despite warnings from her manager Vikktor. The arrangement isolates Elliot from girlfriend Minerva and best friend Apple. At Erika's exhibition, Elliot discovers videos of their encounters displayed without his agreement and is thrown out when he confronts her. Erika later summons him, drugs his champagne, and stages a drunken encounter. Elliot wakes to find her apparently dead in the pool, but her body disappears and detectives question him before releasing him for lack of evidence.
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Erika reappears and explains that she and Vikktor engineered Elliot's gallery outburst and her false death to create scandal; the resulting attention sold out the exhibition and saved her studio. Elliot uses the notoriety to become a successful podcaster, later interviewing Erika about her book on the hoax. A later scene shows them marrying, but Erika's face melts and both wake separately, revealing the wedding as a shared nightmare. Their parallel reaction suggests the relationship still occupies both imaginations without turning the original imbalance into a conventional romance.
Original context
Why it matters
A wedding that becomes a nightmare
The melting wedding gives way to the characters waking separately. Attraction and unease remain after the publicity has produced success for both of them.
Key turning points
Private recordings at the exhibition
Elliot discovers that Erika has displayed their encounters without his agreement. His confrontation becomes another event she and Vikktor can use to generate publicity.
Character links
Who connects to whom
Character motivations
Erika needs the scandal to sell
The staged death and gallery outburst draw attention that sells the exhibition and saves Erika's studio. The hoax makes Elliot's distress part of her business plan.
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