Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

I saw this movie today in my documentary class. Unfortunately, I won't be able to show this movie to others because it's impossible to find. What a shame really..

This movie was amazing. I'd never really considered pornography from a feminist point of view, so to be exposed to this movie was really shocking. Some of the scenes are hard to watch, I must admit.

I think it's great that the director is accompanied by Linda who is a stripper. It's great to see Linda's reaction at the end of the film when she has been through a "Hustler" type photo shoot.

And was I the only one completely disturbed by the lady photographer? Eek.

If you have any social conscience, you must see this movie.

First of all, this is a documentary about the XXX scene in the states. Made around a time when horror and the XXX scene became violent. It was the time of the slashers and the porn horrors. Girls were humiliated in that era. As seen in the documentary some directors stated, it's a men's world outside and all movies are made so that men can have fun, and what's more than having pride as a man when a woman kneels down and give it to you. A time when Britain started the hunt for those movies as the so called 'video nasties'. The US didn't follow so women protested against those violent movies. But the fun in this documentary is the fact that it was banned also due the reason that they showed strip acts and some photo shoots of women showing their genitals. Further on they visit 42nd street, visiting the scene and showing explicit parts. So it's hard to find this flick, oh yeah, you can order it in Canada were it was made but you will have to be a teacher to get it and they copy it on VHS. Fun to see that they are talking about the rise of the VHS in which the XXX scene sells three time more than a major Hollywood film, and the fact that there are 4 time more XXX clubs then Mc Donalds. The thing that offended me the most is the part were a psychiatrist explains what XXX movies are doing to your mind. He says, if you watch them a lot were women are raped you will won't get offended about it anymore, so when you see a rape in real life, you won't be bothered. What a stupidity to say, nowadays we know that people who watch XXX don't become rapists and people who collect horrors aren't serial killers. Anyway, a must see but place yourself in the time being. I can tell, I walked around 42nd when 42nd was still as seen in this documentary. And it was indeed sleazy, even my hotel was located in between. 10 years later I was back on 42nd, everything was gone...So watch this one before the last copy has gone.

My friend's Mom took us to see this because she thought we were getting the wrong idea about porn. (I think) WE were about 14 or 15 at the time and had only see playboy and penthouse. I don't think I have seen anything this disturbing since. I definitely thought more about what's going on behind the scenes but I also developed a much broader idea about what people did, wanted to do, or are forced to do in the realm of sex. I would recommend seeing this but not before you are at least 18 or have had some experience with sex, because I can still picture a woman's breasts tied into a purple tube with the distended bulb at the end being pinched and bitten. Fun for some but a little much for the young

Other than Marc Stevens, no one of consequence in the smut business was interviewed. If watching a bunch of inarticulate losers talking about their lives makes you happy, then, by all means, watch this film. It goes nowhere and say's nothing you didn't already assume. Where did they find these people? Obviously, little effort was made by the producers to find sex workers who could express themselves coherently. This film was painful to sit through, even high speeding through most of it. Simply dreadful.

This so-called documentary was anything but objective. It was produced by a feminist with an axe to grind. It took a predetermined negative stance towards pornography and had a clearly one-sided, unilateral, anti-porn agenda. It only showed the hardest, roughest forms of sex and avoided showing the much more prevalent sex-is-fun films. It tried to claim the women were being "degraded" and portray them as victims, while failing to mention that everything that occurs to women in porn also occurs to men. Men must "cum on command", they are "objectified" too,and there are numerous porn films where men are portrayed as inferiors. (slave-films, femdom, domination, etc.) In fact, one of the porn actresses in this film (who enjoyed her work) was so angered over the edited and skewed manipulation that the director had used to make her appear as a "victim" who was against porn, that she later went on to become a filmmaker herself in protest. This film was obviously a hack-job that didn't even accurately portray its subjects and intentionally tried to artificially portray them as victims of the porn industry. Obviously, this was nothing more than a feminazi propaganda film.

Erotic and sexual images have been viewed by people since ancient times. Such images have been found in every ancient culture in the world and were commonplace and acceptable in ancient Rome, Babylon, Egypt, and India. It is absurd to think pornography is somehow new or "harmful to women". LOL Only the media has changed. Attempts by man-hating feminists to outlaw pornography are nothing more than misguided misandry. Feminists want to outlaw pornography as a method of oppressing men and taking away men's freedom. They don't want men to be able to masturbate and satisfy themselves sexually, but want women to have a monopoly on sex and use it to control men. That's the REAL reason why man-hating feminists seek to outlaw it. There is no legitimate, objective evidence whatsoever that porn leads to "violence against women" or is harmful to women in any way. Its just an attempt to take away men's freedoms and oppress men. Outlawing porn also takes away women's freedoms too. In fact, cultures where porn is illegal (like Iran) are cultures where women have the least rights, and cultures where porn and prostitution are legal (like Denmark/Sweden) are where women have the most rights. If anything, the empirical evidence shows a positive correlation between pornography in a culture and women's status. In a society that really respects women, women would be free to do what they want with their OWN bodies. If a woman wants to strip, perform in porn, or perform sexual acts then that is HER choice and should be respected. She doesn't need some dumb feminist trying to take away her right to choose by outlawing porn. I thought it was "Our bodies, our choice" (the famous feminist slogan regarding abortion). If that's the case, then why do feminazis insist on interfering with other women's rights to do what they want with THEIR bodies? Each woman should be allowed to choose to either do porn, or not. Feminazis try to take away that choice by attempting to outlaw porn and prostitution. Feminists are the REAL oppressors of women!Each woman should have the right to choose to do what she wants with her body.

Commissions were formed in the 80's by the Reagan administration to try to form links between porn and social harm to provide a "justification" for outlawing porn, but even these commissions had to concede that no harm whatsoever can be shown. The Supreme Court in the USA and Canada both made several modern rulings on pornography and came to the conclusion that pornography should be available to those consenting adults that choose to view it. Those who don't like it don't have to watch it. The feminazi's lost their war, thankfully. Now we can view porn easily through mainstream media such as pay-per-view and the Internet. Hooray for men's rights!! The feminazi's failed to oppress us; even with inflammatory one-sided propaganda films such as this!

I give it 5/10. Zero for intellectual content (since most of this was misinformation and politically-biased feminazi propaganda), but 5 stars for the good skin and explicit sex shown.