I can't wait to see his new movie. Below, excerpts from a recent interview with the director.

Sex Education, John Waters-style

by Todd R. Ramlow

....You've called "A Dirty Shame" a sex education film, why so? Why do you think we need broader avenues of sex education in the U.S.?

Because there are none left. It used to be mostly just AIDS that could kill you. Now we have hepatitis C, and in the gay community there's a rise in syphilis. It used to be at least safe to get blown. Now even that isn't safe anymore. So we have to pick up the pace, there's very little safe sex education left, and kids are going to experiment, and they should, because that's part of being young. But it's scary. So if all of the acts [in "A Dirty Shame"] are not against women and they are safe, then hopefully we can laugh and learn about the necessity of safe sex. Although laughter is the true enemy of "serious" sex, unless you're like a tickle top, which I really don't get. Tickle porn is all about being tied up and tickled until you have an orgasm. And they're very serious about it all. But I'm glad for them. I'm not really going to try it, but it seems to work. I guess my repertory is a little limited on some things.

I'm curious how you choose the fetishes and practices to include in your films. I caught an episode of CSI that was all about furries, which you haven't addressed.

I haven't done that because Vanity Fair had that big article about it, and I never really believed it was true. I think that most people became furries after that article. But it just looks too hot for me. I have to pick fetishes that could be funny and that you could describe quickly. But I completely believe in safe sex education. If we could just talk about it more. I mean the mother-daughter scene in the film is ridiculous, you would never have a mother saying to her daughter "I'm a cunnilingus bottom." But at the same time, if you could ... I mean, there have been billboards all over Baltimore from the mayor's office, reading "Talk to your children about sex, somebody else is." And that's from the government....

October 9, 2004 in Film | Permalink

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