We couldn't resist having a laugh at the expense of Mimi Balfour, a Toronto mom who was "shocked" to discover that porn, even those films supposedly geared toward women, were "poorly art directed, poorly shot, it wasn't sexy or intelligent and the guys weren't that attractive."
(Sounds like a spot-on review of most Hollywood movies supposedly geared toward women.)
But Balfour wasn't going to take this lying down. She decided she'd make her own porno, entitled Man of My Dreams...
The Financial Post describes the film as
a collection of fantasy scenarios written, produced and directed by Ms. Balfour, under Cleopatra Productions, is the result of five years of pondering and research, including focus groups with women.
Five years to make a softcore porn movie? Geez, Cinemax used to crank those out every Thursday. And, at a profit, which a five-year-long porn project is unlikely to make...
Each scene is accompanied by music and can be watched in "learning mode," which includes popup fun facts about sex. For example, did you know that orgasms can boost your immune system? Or that a teenage boy's erection can last an hour?
Words cannot begin to describe our shock after having confronted those words.
The scenes are soft but steamy, with enough nudity and variations on subtly simulated sex. Compared with conventional pornography, Man of My Dreams has a clean, bright, cheeky and vaguely wholesome aesthetic.
"My children know that Mummy's making a sexy movie," she says.
Via the Financial Post.
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