The Onion AV Club reviews a documentary about a bondage website:
“…the heart of the movie is the footage from insex.com’s live feeds and recorded videos, wherein women were stripped, shackled, pierced, punched, electrified, hung, caged, submerged in water, and otherwise put in situations that left them bruised and weeping even though they were volunteers. There’s no honest way to make a documentary like Graphic Sexual Horror without showing what insex.com was up to, unvarnished. Still, there’s so much of that material in the movie—and so little external context—that at a certain point, Graphic Sexual Horror becomes less about extreme fetish porn, and more an example of it. That may be what Bell and Lorentzon were aiming for, to push the audience beyond their own boundaries, the way Scott and the staff at insex.com did. But there’s no denying, this movie is punishing.
And for all those who think I’m digging into tiny little niches here – a note about the founder: “Within the first two weeks, he’d made as much as he would’ve made in a semester of teaching…”
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