One of the few...
Added 1/13/2007
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.
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Pedestrian
Added 5/10/2005
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.
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A recent review out of the e-zine "Predominant"
Added 3/15/2005
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.
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A tour of the wild side
Added 3/21/2004
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.
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Interesting journey into one Pro Dom House
Added 9/4/2002
Not a great movie to show folks what the average person into BDSM does or has but a good doctumentary on one particular pro dom house in NYC. The director/cameraman is clearly not particularly comfortable with SM but he tries to show the variety of kinks that both customers and pros offer. There are many fetishes and role playing scenarios that are looked at ranging from basics of clothing to the very intense use of needles or the very humiliating use of human ashtrays. It may not be for the newbie to watch without a good guide to question some questions. My only real disappointment was at the end when the pros chase him around breaking the basic guidelines of SM today: safe, sane and consensual.
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