Some weeks ago, I went to a party and was confronted with a sexually degrading, faintly s/m video-clip on a huge screen. Nauseated, I nevertheless couldn't tear my eyes away. When I talked about my disgust to friends, I discovered that I was the only one who had never seen such films before. Everybody agreed that the film had been bad, boring or even ludicrous ... but nobody understood how utterly loathsome I found it.
This led to a discussion about the presentation of sex and violence in art. Why would people do it? Why would other people consume it? Why would there be so many blantantly non-artistic films about such subjects? What kind of people watch snuff-videos and what kick do they get out of it?
Is there anything one has got to have watched?
And what value does it have that you get so used to scenes of violence and degration that you don't turn hair when I am reduced to helpless horror? Can this really be part of an education? Or is it just taste? But why do some people have such tastes and others don't?
You see, I then did try to watch an artistically approved film of the genre, which has a socio-political message as well. I never got past the trailer and ended up with disturbing night-mares in the bargain.
I wish to point out that the linked clip is not an underage-video.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs8zzg_120-tage-von-sodom-1975-trailer-german_shortfilms
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