The Submission of Emily Marx

There is a sub-world of film making that caters to soft (ish) porn to be shown to late night cable tv audiences who have paid for such titillation, but not as much as those who have paid a subscription to a premium sexploitation channel which - I am told - offers more explicit views of the human anatomy.

As you will be acutely aware, in the spanking genre the mantra is 1) there is going to be a spanking, 2) there is a spanking, 3) there was a spanking - with lots of words and/or video to expand each of those three elements.    The mature adult film is not dissimilar - just a different outlook.   Which gives it a mantra 1) There is going to be an orgasm 2) There will be an orgasm   3) No - hang on a bit, there really will be an orgasm- honest.  4) There was an orgasm.   5) Lets repeat all of that for those who were not paying attention the last time around.

The plots of Mature Audience films tend to be extremely simplistic of a "Hey, you look cute - let's make out" with the only major variation being the backdrop.

Sometimes a plot tries to explore new grounds.

Which brings us to a Mature Audience film called "The Submission of Emily Marx" currently going the late night rounds of cable tv for those too cheap to pay for a premium sex channel - rather like me.

The driving force behind S of EM is more your mainstream BDSM adherents and - due diligence disclosure - you may know more about the hardcore BDSM scene than I do.  In this film, Emily is getting a mild disciplinary paddling in the opening scene (exceedingly chaste and un-erotic) repeated in the closing scene.   Between the two extremes, she gets spanked once, and gets a quick belting once.    The rest of the time she explores the nature of balls, plugs, wax and ice etc, etc - with a bit of bondage thrown in once for good measure.    Being for the Mature Audience viewer, lots of time is given to (almost off screen) oral sex, with a bit of doggy style to show we are in the realms of the more adventurous.  And there is a lot of monologue by Emily explaining why such abnormal behavior turns her on so much.

The basis of the plot:  if you cannot enjoy a normal sex life, and you crave a supply of orgasms, then become a pervert and accept the consequences of letting some guy do what the hell he wants to do to.

The consensual side of the equation was that Emily was given a BDSM contract before they started, and she had access to a safe word if she wanted to up and off from any more of his perversions.

I have no idea who Jacky St. James (credited as the author) is in real life - but she does use that name on her twitter account - and kudos to her for doing research into what people in a BDSM relationship actually do.   But I really wish she had spent more time researching the "why" we do it, and the real life mechanics that happen before and during a relationship,   "Your sex life is too mundane?  Here, sign this BDSM contract and see how much it improves." might possibly have been used as a successful pick up line once or twice - but surely only as a very rare exception and never as a rule.

If you want to show some aspects of TTTWD, you really need to get your ducks in a row first.   Or all you will do will be to alienate the community and be seen as trying to foster the lie to the rest of your audience.  The lie?  That, without exception, we are narcissists and raving sex perverts.