Le sexe qui parle

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Movie
Original title Le sexe qui parle
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1975
length 70 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked and treated as porn according to § 15 (2)  JuSchG like indexed film
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Director Claude Mulot
script Claude Mulot, Denis Diderot , Didier Philippe-Gérard
production Francis Leroi
music Mike Steïthenson
camera Roger Fellous
occupation

Le Sexe qui parle (English title Pussy Talk ) is a French porn film by the director Claude Mulot from 1975. The film is assigned to the period of porn chic in the mid-1970s, when pornographic films found access to the mainstream audience. and was internationally successful. The film was also released in the United States in 1975, and in Germany in 1976.

action

The film is about Joëlle, who lives in Paris and has a speaking vulva. Her genitals are very direct and say things that Joëlle would never say herself, forcing her to engage in sexual activities that she would not do herself. Above all, her husband Eric is insulted by her vulva and her dissatisfaction with Eric forces Joëlle to orally satisfy her work colleague or to turn on Eric's friends. Together with his wife, Eric unsuccessfully see a psychoanalyst because he sees the reason for this behavior in a sexual trauma. The psychiatrist calls a press conference to cover the talking vulva, and Joëlle and Eric escape the press to a hotel. Here there is a dialogue between Eric and the vulva while Joëlle sleeps, in which the vulva tells Eric about her sex life before Eric and makes it clear to him that he is a bad lover. According to Erika Lust , Eric decides to "implement the term battle of the sexes in its full meaning and tries to silence Joëlle's cunt by stuffing her mouth with his cock."

The film regularly shows what the vulva sees from the perspective of the vulva, with a vertical almond-shaped section being shown.

background

The film Le Sexe qui parle is based on the erotic novel Die indiskreten Kleinode (French original title: Les bijoux indiscrets ) by Denis Diderot , which was published anonymously by Laurent Durand in 1748 . The action takes place in a fictional Sultanate of Congo around the Sultan Mangogul and his favorite Mirzoza, who are given a ring by an inventor with which he can wear the “bijoux”, the “gems” or the “pieces of jewelry” of women, i.e. the vulva to tell. The novel became an allegory of the rule of the French King Louis XV. and his mistress Madame de Pompadour . Diderot used the motif of the vagina loquens , which appears probably for the first time in literature in the medieval Fabliau Le Chevalier Qui Fist Parler les Cons from the 13th century. The central point is that the “lower lips” of the woman express the truths that the upper lips do not dare to say.

The director Claude Mulot took over the story of the speaking vulva and implemented it for his story of the speaking vulva. The motif was later used in the 1977 film Chatterbox by Tom DeSimone , which is a softcore comedy based on Mulot's original. The modern play The Vagina Monologues is also based on the motif of the speaking vulva or vagina.

reception

The film Le Sexe qui parle is assigned to porn chic , which mainly includes films from the early 1970s such as Deep Throat , Behind the Green Door or The Devil in Miss Jones . He was internationally successful and also influenced other films, including the My Fair Lady- based film The Opening of Misty Beethoven , in which a scene from Le Sexe qui parle is shown within the early plot in a porn film.

In her book X - Porno für Frauen , Erika Lust dedicates a “special mention” to the film in her collection of porn films, as it is the only one “in which the protagonist literally says what her cunt has to say” Vulva "scares men more than the myth of the vagina with sharp teeth," the vagina dentata . According to their analysis, the film is a “daring mixture of unusualness and humor” for porn cinema.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Le Sexe qui parle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Erika Lust : X - Porn for women. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2009, p. 198. ISBN 978-3-453-67572-8
  3. ↑ a b Amdrew Aberdein: Strange Bedfellows: The Interpenetration of Philosophy and Pornography. In: Dave Monroe (ed.): Porn - Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley, 2010. pp. 1-2. (PDF; 353 kB)
  4. ↑ Emma LE Rees: The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013; P. 108.

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