Looks like it will be fascinating. Porn teaches our culture a lot of things, that’s for certain — which is why in my new porn book I label nearly all of porn’s standard sex acts “Jackass sex”. Check out this interesting article over at the Guardian, Sex education, where Larry Clark shares his feelings about his documentary film that illustrates how porn affects the way our culture is learning to think about sex; Destricted, due out September 8. (Thanks, Adam!) Snip:
“Impaled, Clark’s 38-minute contribution to portmanteau art-porn project Destricted, now goes the whole way and shows a young man – selected from various lustful, or merely curious, hopefuls – fulfilling his dream of copulating with a porn actress. It is a disturbing work. Not because of the awkward, funny and downright messy sex between spacey porn star wannabe Daniel and a flirty fortysomething; but because of what Clark reveals about the pornification of the young men he auditions. Raised in a world where hardcore pornography is available, 24/7, at the click of a mouse button it is as if they are living in their personal adult movies. This time, even Clark was shocked.
“‘I was shocked and amazed,’ exclaims the lean and bearded 63-year-old, nursing a coffee. ‘This was an educational film for me, because I had no idea this was going on.’ When he asks the male applicants to disrobe for the camera, he discovers that most of them have removed all their pubic hair, just like porn stars. ‘It’s so weird,’ he says bemused. ‘When you’re a kid, pubic hair is the greatest thing in the world. Everybody loves pubic hair. You can’t wait to get it. And these kids, very young kids, are shaving it off. It’s like, what?'”
