Fridae

Yes, we know it's Star Wars week and that's a BIG FRIGGIN'
movie. But we've decided to put the review of the only other new
movie opening this week ahead of the Star Wars review.

Why? Because we at Fridae strongly believe in your education, and
Inside Deep Throat is a important documentary about a pornographic
film that pitted conservative Americans against liberal Americans
in the 1970s.

What does this have anything to do with you, you ask? Well, as
a thinking and self-respecting GLB, you need to equip yourself with
the knowledge of the American sexual revolution that took place
in the late 60s and the 70s when feminism, gay rights and the porn
industry — among others — found their voices.

That was a crucial time when America became bitterly divided between
those who believed that a person has the right to have any kind
of sex he/she likes — and those who believed that only a lawfully
wedded husband and wife could touch each other's wee-wee and pee-pee.

To be sure, Deep Throat the 1972 movie — no, it's
not about an oral handicap, but Linda Lovelace giving very deep
blowjobs to a man — did not trigger off the sexual revolution.
Rather, the fellatio flick rode on the wave of change that was already
sweeping America, and it helped liberate the way people thought
about and enjoyed sex.

Earlier this year, we encouraged you to see the film Kinsey,
about the famous real-life sex doctor Professor Alfred Kinsey who
taught the world that homosexuality was common and natural.

Inside Deep Throat may not be as good, informative or
entertaining a film as Kinsey.But it's still an important
documentation of a milestone in human history that got us to where
we are today. We urge you to see this too.

(P.S.: It has lots of boob shots, but the crucial blowjob scenes
have been removed by the censors.)