Fetishes

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Studio: Simitar Ent.
Product Type: DVD

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Pedestrian
You Won't Fall Asleep

Fetishes
Director: Nick Broomfield
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305326606
Release Date: 1999-02-16

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Pedestrian.......2005-05-10

Pretty pedestrian really. You learn that a professional dominatrix is just another person, often just another employee. Nothing empowering in the job. Plenty of tedium.

And the maker of the documentary was unwilling to participate in very light BDSM play making himself seem fairly impotent and weak. It was made he wouldn't be harmed in any way.

If you are familiar with Femdom or BDSM you will find no revelations here. Should this be a new area to you then it might be a surprising catalog of desires that some men have.

While there are no `better' DVDs to have someone wishing to explore would be better off investigating the Claudia Varrin and Greenery Press books that Amazon sells than this movie.

You Won't Fall Asleep.......2000-01-11

VERY interesting documentary about the goings-ons at an establishment in New York (Pandora's Box) that cater's to mostly male clients into bondage, rubber, infantilism, etc. The movie is very similar in style and subject to "Chicken Ranch", a documentary about a legal brothel in Nevada (also, a good documentary).

The film is quite shocking/disturbing (i.e., the male human ashtray), although no sexual acts are allowed in this totally legal establishment. Nudity is minimal (and, of course, most male genetalia is blurred out), but that doesn't matter because the most interesting parts of the movie are the interviews with the employees and clients in the film, many of which agreed to be interviewed without concealing their identities.

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One of the few..........2007-01-13

Fetishes is one of the few great film documentaries providing an inside look into a real fetish parlour in New York City. Fetishes provides interviews with the dominatrices and clients in and out of the dungeon and real sessions with plenty of real fetishes including slaves, S&M/Bondage, rubber, wrestling, infantilism and a few other's.
Fetishes is a great film for those involved in the fetish world and those who are interested or just curious.

"A little behaviour modification....".......2005-04-12

In order to investigate the phenomenon of Fetishism, British filmmaker, Nick Broomfield haunts the halls of Pandora's Box, a club that caters to clients with certain tastes. For a membership fee, clients arrange sessions with various mistresses employed at the club. Broomfield spent two months in Pandora's Box filming the mistresses, the clients and some of the day-to-day operations. The documentary covers a range of fetishes, and as Broomfield says at one point, "just as I thought I'd seen it all..."

Broomfield explains that it's estimated that 14% of men and 11% of women have some sort of fetish. Pandora's Box is owned and operated by former dominatrix, Mistress Raven. Clients are carefully screened regarding their special tastes. Many of the clients hold high-powered jobs--attorneys, CEOs, Wall Street brokers, etc. Broomfield interviews several of the mistresses, trying to discover what--if anything--in their past indicated that they would eventually work in Pandora's Box. Of particular interest is Mistress Raven who counters Broomfield's attempts at understanding with a mind probe of her own. Clearly Broomfield finds her fascinating and impenetrable. Broomfield's questions are not condescending but are based in genuine curiosity. Nonetheless, his presence obviously annoys some of the mistresses on various occasions when he steps over the line. At one point a session rapidly spins out-of-control, and I'm a bit vague about Broomfield's role and responsibility for this incident.

Some of the transactions that take place in Pandora's Box will probably be accepted with understanding, and some the viewer may reject. One of the most fascinating elements about this sort of taboo-raising documentary is the reaction one feels. We learn something about ourselves when watching the "transfer of power and control" of others. There's a great deal here to think about, and I, for one found "Fetishes" quite riveting. The easily offended are unlikely to try this DVD--there is some nudity, and some of the naughty bits are fuzzed out--displacedhuman

A recent review out of the e-zine "Predominant".......2005-03-16

The lovely Ms Kathleen reviewed "Fetishes" in the March edition of the e-zine "Predominant". Here is a little from her review:

"In my opinion, Nick Broomfield stayed as impartial as one could when approaching this subject matter and his eventual acceptance of what he had witnessed is not unlike what many of us have experienced in our own journey into the world D&S. Shock gives way to curiosity, curiosity stirs genuine inquiry, inquiry leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to understanding (and ultimately acceptance)."

After reading her review, I purchased this DVD and was not disappointed. Thank you Nick Broomfield for having the courage to make this documentary. I only wish you had agreed to be dominated by the lovely Mistress Raven.

A tour of the wild side.......2004-03-21

A British male documentarian does a work on Pandora's Box, an SM service in NYC. Like many African Americans, I find the idea of whipping and "owning slaves" highly problematic. However, to each his or her own. This film does show powerful women in sexy leather and shapely corsets giving much attitude and representing. This film will put you in a mood to swish your hips and yell, "Do what you're told!" Still, the main dominatrix was bothered by the filmmaker's refusal to try bondage and I don't blame her. He does come off as a pest and a snoop. I especially hated the way he had to drag opinions out of interviewees' mouths. Though this movie is mostly about male submissives and female dominatrices, the first images are of same-sex, female, SM scenes. I think this was designed to attract the heterosexual male viewer who enjoys lesboeroticism and thinks of it as exotic. Still, it's somewhat misrepresentative. There is one dominatrix of color and though you see her in a race-laced scene, she is never interviewed. I bet she would have been a fascinating subject and I wonder if the filmmaker was being Eurocentric by excluding her. This film is not a history of SM; it focuses solely on one club. I was also worried that this British documentary was meant to act as just another project to make Americans look crazy. However, one dominatrix speaks with a thick, natural French accent and one submissive is English-born. I am glad that some submissives spoke openly to the camera because folk should be proud of what they do sexually as long as it's adult and consensual. I don't think I'd try this, but I will admit that this was a sexy documentary. I have to give credit where it is due.

Nick Broomfield's Fetishes (Special Edition, Fully Uncut) [Region 2 Import]

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Nick Broomfield's Fetishes (Special Edition, Fully Uncut) [Region 2 Import]

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Binding: DVD

Special Editions | Fully Loaded DVDs | Features | DVD | Video
Product Features:

Fully Uncut Edition
47 minutes of unseen bonus footage

ASIN: B000M133PG

Product Description

Pandora's Box, a luxurious S & M parlour in New York, is about to reveal more than mere flesh. Master documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield's wry, enlightening film pulls the curtain back on this palace of eroticism, exploring a multitude of fetishes from rubber to infantilism to asphyxiation and mummification. Clients paying upwards of $10,000 a night submit to mistresses who create highly elaborate role-playing scenarios designed to meet the client's specific fetishistic needs. Doctors and nurses, naked wrestling and bullwhipping are played out in diverse theme rooms like the "Versailles Palace" and the fully equipped medical room, complete with surgical instruments. Jewish clients into Nazi fantasies and black clients into plantation slave scenarios lend a provocative socio-political twist to this bizarre and unseen world, and a parlour as unusual as Pandora's would never be complete without the customary medieval torture chamber with racks, cages and guillotine. If you dare... open Pandora's box.

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Kinky Fetishes 6 Hours

Manufacturer: SUNSHINE FILMS
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000PHTOU0

Product Description

SHAVING HIDDEN TOILET CAM ASSHOLE MUNCHING MORE PERVERSE SEX ACTS IMAGINABLE

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