A tour of the wild side
A British male documentarian does a work on Pandora's Box, an SM service in NYC. Like many African Americans, I find the idea of whipping and "owning slaves" highly problematic. However, to each his or her own. This film does show powerful women in sexy leather and shapely corsets giving much attitude and representing. This film will put you in a mood to swish your hips and yell, "Do what you're told!" Still, the main dominatrix was bothered by the filmmaker's refusal to try bondage and I don't blame her. He does come off as a pest and a snoop. I especially hated the way he had to drag opinions out of interviewees' mouths. Though this movie is mostly about male submissives and female dominatrices, the first images are of same-sex, female, SM scenes. I think this was designed to attract the heterosexual male viewer who enjoys lesboeroticism and thinks of it as exotic. Still, it's somewhat misrepresentative. There is one dominatrix of color and though you see her in a...
You Won't Fall Asleep
VERY interesting documentary about the goings-ons at an establishment in New York (Pandora's Box) that cater's to mostly male clients into bondage, rubber, infantilism, etc. The movie is very similar in style and subject to "Chicken Ranch", a documentary about a legal brothel in Nevada (also, a good documentary).
The film is quite shocking/disturbing (i.e., the male human ashtray), although no sexual acts are allowed in this totally legal establishment. Nudity is minimal (and, of course, most male genetalia is blurred out), but that doesn't matter because the most interesting parts of the movie are the interviews with the employees and clients in the film, many of which agreed to be interviewed without concealing their identities.
Overall, a fascinating document of sexuality's dark side.
Interesting journey into one Pro Dom House
Not a great movie to show folks what the average person into BDSM does or has but a good doctumentary on one particular pro dom house in NYC. The director/cameraman is clearly not particularly comfortable with SM but he tries to show the variety of kinks that both customers and pros offer. There are many fetishes and role playing scenarios that are looked at ranging from basics of clothing to the very intense use of needles or the very humiliating use of human ashtrays. It may not be for the newbie to watch without a good guide to question some questions. My only real disappointment was at the end when the pros chase him around breaking the basic guidelines of SM today: safe, sane and consensual.
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