Sex Freaks

I'm sure the makers of "Sex Freaks" desperately wanted to believe themselves that they were working on an educational documentary, but it's abundantly clear that the only real intention of M.C. Von Hellen was to show explicit and gratuitous pornography in whatever format or context. The film supposedly enlightens us about all possible sort of deviant and nonstandard sexual preferences going from harmless and individual (masturbation, doll-fetishes, ...) over to playful with consent (sex tourism, role plays, sex in public places, group orgies, ...) towards obscene and downright harmful to others (voyeurism, S/M, rape, ...). But whatever the taboo subject or fetish is, it always comes down to the close-up depiction of male and female genitalia, fellatio and penetration. I don't mind, of course, but it's really funny how the stern male voiceover tries to sound wise and explanatory while it's basically just a series of dirty movie clips. Well, I'm not too ashamed to admit that I regularly watch pornography - alone as well as together with my wife - and I always find it a relief to find "real" men and women in the films of the seventies and eighties. With that, I specifically refer to girls with natural curves and breasts in normal proportions, opposed to the fake plastic and fully shaven women that reign the adult industry nowadays.

Too bad, however, that the "documentary" somewhat feeds the loathsome so-called rape-fantasies and doesn't make a harsher statement against degenerating behavior towards women. "Girls dressed in skimpy outfits are begging for it" and "Go along with the assailant and give him what he wants" are not exactly the correct messages to pass on to a largely male-orientated audience.