As the witching hour approaches on Saturday night, Bay Area misfits gather outside the Parkway Cinema in Oakland for a taste of their favorite cult movie experience, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The air is filled with the heavy scent of cloves as bodies clad in fishnets, corsets and black leather line up against the brick wall, eager to be let inside the theater. Two girls dressed in nothing more than bras, panties and tights with bright red-lipsticked V's on their foreheads stand giggling on either arm of a mischievous looking man in a floor-length black trench coat.

He lifts up their hands and yells, “Virgins for sale! I’ve got two hot virgins here for sale. Buy them both for seven bucks!”

For 10 years, fans have been flocking to see the cast of Barely Legal and their interpretation of the movie’s message of acceptance and decadence. The crowds also come to partake in the debauchery. Deflowering the virgins is always a crowd favorite. But most hardcore fans of the show credit the scene's continued popularity with its acceptance of outcasts, individuals Edward Hall refers to as “the people that everyone else thinks are freaks but are actually normal once you get past the clothes and slight craziness.”

Kaneda, a longtime supporter of "Rocky" who named himself after a character in the cult anime film “Akira,” feels at-home amongst what most of society views as the riff-raff.

“I don’t fit in anywhere else, but I fit in here. Everyone else is weird here, so nobody notices me,“ he says while running a leather whip through his fingers. “Where else can you go at midnight on a Saturday night and not get in trouble? Well, not too much trouble anyway. I mean, they were already spanking people and tying them up earlier.”

Whips, flogs and other bondage paraphernalia are commonplace in this glam-meets-goth sexually permissive subculture that somehow has developed around a cheesy '70s science fiction movie. Whatever your poison, there is probably someone else in the crowd to connect with, on both a mental and physical level.

Genevieve Florea, a self-proclaimed “Rocky freak,” has been into the movie since she was five. It took a few more years before she understood the message.

“It all surrounds sex, because sex is a fun subject because everyone does it,” she says with a laugh. “You know you don’t have to be frumpy here. You can actually dress how you want to dress and act how you want to act.”

Everyone has their own idea of what Rocky is truly about, but as one audience member remarked right before she entered the theater, “It’s all about the group orgies.”