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Author Topic: Sex For One in the theatre (you know, like Paul Reubens) Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-03-2003 11:20 AM                        Pee Wee at THE MATRIX Pee Wee at The Matrix Punch occasionally likes to get in touch with his inner geek. Punch also believes that the actual "work" part of holding a job is a major nuisance. So last week Punch decided to blow off said job for an afternoon showing of The Matrix: Reloaded at Tower City. A bespectacled, pimply kid plopped himself down two seats away. Strange, considering the theater was nearly empty. Stranger yet was the rustling sound coming from the kid's seat. It started during the sex scene between Neo and Trinity. Any Pee Wee Herman suspicions faded, however, when the sound continued through completely sexless action sequences. Surely the boy had nothing more than a bad itch. But as soon as Italian model/actress Monica Bellucci sauntered onto the screen in a skintight cocktail dress, the sound intensified. Peripherally, it was impossible to locate the kid's hand . . . until . . . oh, dear God! . . . Punch's worst fears were confirmed. The whole episode made Punch nostalgic for the sci-fi dorks of yesteryear. Hell, Shatner got tons of alien ass, but you never saw Trekkies whipping out their wands during the matinee.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-06-2003 08:41 PM                    Reading across these threads an interesting theme emerges. The sex-for-one folks are labeled as perverts and the police are called etc. The couples doing it are viewed more with amusement and a "cut it out or take it to a motel" attitude. Why does one evoke derision and the other bemusement? Obviously the guy sitting next to little girls deserved to be locked away. That aside should we not be horrified the same for all? (If we should be at all.) Do you call cops quicker for the wanker than the couple? If so why? (And I'm not sure what crime the orgy people were committing that the police were called. But that's a discussion for that thread.)  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-07-2003 05:20 PM                        I hesitate to share this piece of information, but what the hell. A couple months ago I was at a mall and there was a kid, maybe 18, wearing a T-shirt that said "Masturbation Is Not A Crime!". It had a web page url on it. Well, curiosity got the better of me and I checked it out. How can I put this, except to just say the site is like an online encyclopedia of wanking. Heck, it's even been endorsed by Jocelyn Elders, the former Surgeon General who had to resign after she publicly advocated teaching *about* masturbation in schools. For your amusement and amazement, I give you JackinWorld  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-07-2003 09:45 PM                    Going to Amazon, selecting "books" and searching for "masturbation" brings up 48 hits, among them such titles as Sex For One, Singular Pleasures, Tickle Your Fancy, and The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips. There are a few that seem to be more about the whole cultural ethos of the topic such as Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 08-07-2003 11:17 PM                        There's certainly nothing wrong with masturbation, but there is something wrong with masturbating publicly. I hope people were kidding when they didn't make that distinction. As for the seats, after the Trans-Lux East in NYC played an extended run of Caligula (I think it played for well over a year), they ripped the seats out and changed the name of the theatre to the Gotham. The restrictions in leases for films rated NC-17 are ridiculous. Films that are strictly porno are generally not submitted to the MPAA, so they don't have an NC-17 or X rating (and the MPAA has used NC-17, not X, for many years precisely because they never copyrighted the "X" rating and the porn industry adopted it by using XXX.) I can understand a restriction on placing an explicit poster for an NC-17 film in a public area of the mall, but not on restricting what people pay to see in a theatre. There have been serious, well-made films that do have explicit sex and have either been rated NC-17 or not rated, such as the recent "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Sex with Lucia". Why are we so afraid of sex but we couldn't care less about violence? A film can show hundreds of people being murdered in the most violent fashion and no one bats an eye and many bring their kids, but if a penis or vagina is shown, everyone freaks out.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-08-2003 03:29 PM                    I wasn't advocating public anything, just questioning why the reactions to each scenario seemed different.  |  IP: Logged

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