LUST STORIES 2: MORE YAWN SAMBANDH THAN ADULT FILMS
This is a longer (much much longer) version of my Sunday Mid-day column Paronormal Activity on Lust Stories 2, which you can read here. Also, my review of Lust Stories 1 is here - Lust to Dust In a time saturated with pornography, what can a collection of Lust Stories offer us? Perhaps a chance to experience the meanings of what sex does in our life, something that reveals an aspect of humanness beyond the functional arousals of porn. I am not sure Lust Stories S2 does this much. Like the first season, this set too features only one woman director (like, why babes? Yeh quota kisne decide kiya?). The other three films, are made by men. One film – R. Balki’s – is a #BoreMatKarYaar bhashan to shame any dadiwala. The other two are entirely fixated on the climax, and not at all on the cinematic sensuality that might build us up to it. All three are absorbed in the pleasure of their own self-congratulations. If this tells us something about how Indian men think about sex, you will agree fri
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Sorry for contacting you via your blog, but I'm not sure how else to get you! We met several years ago in New York at the Harvey Molotch's "Outing the Water Closet": I've co- edited a book called Ladies & Gents. I'm off to South Africa to a workshop on urine diversion toilets next week and the organizers asked me today if I have any thoughts about interesting films/DVDs about toilets and gender. Naturally, I thought of yours and they're really keen to see it. It's a small group - about 10 people - but influential: all work in South African sanitation, either for various municipalities or for NGOs. Again, I realize this is VERY late notice, but is there any way we could find a copy? Can it be streamed anywhere?
I'd appreciate any advice.
Best, Barbara Penner (based in London, UK) b.penner@ucl.ac.uk