Indie XXX festival celebrates pleasure
Maggie Ybarra
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Culture
by Maggie Ybarra
Daily Lobo
The communal experience of orgasms, erotic fantasies and the exchange of pleasure for pain is coming soon to a theater near you.
Pornotopia: An Independent Erotic Film Festival is the love child of Matie Fricker and Molly Adler, co-owners of Self Serve - a sexuality resource center in Nob Hill.
Fricker said hosting a festival that celebrates eroticism was a spur-of-the-moment decision.
"It was one of those crazy ideas in the middle of the night," she said. "I have a lot of those."
The festival covers the wide world of dirty talk, pain, orgasms and fulfilling fantasies. There are movies with multiple partners. There are gay and lesbian erotic documentaries. There is even a 3-D midnight matinee of "Disco Dolls in Hot Skin" that will play Friday and Saturday.
"The boobs in the movie are all pre-silicon," Fricker said. "So, to see that in 3-D is probably going to be incredible."
Fricker said that although putting together the event took a lot of work, the hardest part was deciding which films to show during the festival.
"One thing we had a big problem with is that we didn't have a big enough man-power, woman-power to watch all the porn," she said. "And we didn't want this to only be picked by us. So we asked other people, 'What do you think? Will this fit what we're trying to do for this?' This has definitely been a group effort."
Fricker said the festival is less about porn and more about celebrating pleasure. That's why she and Adler selected erotic documentaries like "Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract," "Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together," "Talk to Me Baby," and "Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasms."
"I hate most porn," Fricker said. "I think it does the worst job possible of showing people how beautiful sex can be."
Fricker said there's a major difference between porn and erotic documentaries.
"For me, one of the first movies that changed my mind is actually the first part of the movie we're showing at Pornotopia called 'How to Fuck in High Heels,'" she said.
Daily Lobo
The communal experience of orgasms, erotic fantasies and the exchange of pleasure for pain is coming soon to a theater near you.
Pornotopia: An Independent Erotic Film Festival is the love child of Matie Fricker and Molly Adler, co-owners of Self Serve - a sexuality resource center in Nob Hill.
Fricker said hosting a festival that celebrates eroticism was a spur-of-the-moment decision.
"It was one of those crazy ideas in the middle of the night," she said. "I have a lot of those."
The festival covers the wide world of dirty talk, pain, orgasms and fulfilling fantasies. There are movies with multiple partners. There are gay and lesbian erotic documentaries. There is even a 3-D midnight matinee of "Disco Dolls in Hot Skin" that will play Friday and Saturday.
"The boobs in the movie are all pre-silicon," Fricker said. "So, to see that in 3-D is probably going to be incredible."
Fricker said that although putting together the event took a lot of work, the hardest part was deciding which films to show during the festival.
"One thing we had a big problem with is that we didn't have a big enough man-power, woman-power to watch all the porn," she said. "And we didn't want this to only be picked by us. So we asked other people, 'What do you think? Will this fit what we're trying to do for this?' This has definitely been a group effort."
Fricker said the festival is less about porn and more about celebrating pleasure. That's why she and Adler selected erotic documentaries like "Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract," "Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together," "Talk to Me Baby," and "Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasms."
"I hate most porn," Fricker said. "I think it does the worst job possible of showing people how beautiful sex can be."
Fricker said there's a major difference between porn and erotic documentaries.
"For me, one of the first movies that changed my mind is actually the first part of the movie we're showing at Pornotopia called 'How to Fuck in High Heels,'" she said.
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