While this film doesn't have any gay content, it's very controversial and very kinky. The topics discussed in the film transcend sexual orientation - there are plenty of gay bondage sites out there as well. We thought some of you guys might be interested - we were.
Graphic Sexual Horror takes a peek behind the terrifying facade of Insex.com, the most notorious of bondage websites, exploring the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility. Original Insex footage, behind-the-scenes interactions, and interviews with PD, models, members, and staff reveal deep fascinations with bondage and sadomasochism that run parallel, and in fact become irreversibly entwined with the lure of money.
Graphic Sexual Horror takes a look behind the terrifying facade of the most notorious of bondage websites. It explores the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility. With interviews we get revelations of deep fascinations with bondage and sadomasochism that run parallel, and in fact become irreversibly entwined with the lure of money. The film is graphic but do not let that put you off. The film is enlightening, educative and somewhat inspiring and it is an excellent documentary. Some people are just into this kind of sex and I certainly do not want to make a judgment call just as I do not want to be judged.
This film was screened at Sundance in 2009 so that says something. Even though it explores sexual freedom, it does so in an open-minded manner and it shows that extreme cases of this type of sexual activity helps to establish a precedent for freedom. We all favor personal preference and that is clearly shown here.
The horror here is real and there are no villains except perhaps for greed and the desire to control other people.
Graphic Sexual Horror tells the story of Brent Scott, aka PD, and the rise and fall of his pioneering BDSM porn site, Insex.com. The film presents Scott as someone with a deep, lifelong interest in BDSM, who is also a supremely talented artist with a gift for visualizing sadomasochistic fantasy. He is also clearly of the school of thought that BDSM imagery need not be restricted to depicting what's usually referred to as "safe, sane, and consensual." After many years of making BDSM films and artworks in the context of academic visual arts, Scott started Insex.com in 1997, a foray into the newly-emerging world of online BDSM porn. This was a time when big profits in web porn were still relatively easy to realize, and Scott quickly found that he was earning far more money and getting much more recognition than he ever got from his day job in the Carnegie-Mellon art faculty.
The film follows Insex through its increasingly-ambitious projects and ultimate collapse, brought on by a mixture of ego and law-enforcement puritanical behavior. On what seems to have been a lark, he decides to pack up his entire operation, moving it out of New York City, and rebuilding it on an isolated farm upstate. Scott/PD becomes center of an operation/artistic cult that included live-in creative staff and performers (aka "interns") that stay at the farm for weeks at a time. The degree of ambition is exemplified by the attempt to create a 1000-gallon aquarium for use in "water torture videos." Built on-site by "KGB," the full-time engineer/machinist/prop-master that Scott kept on staff to make his sinister visions concrete, the tank exploded in its testing stages, nearly killing its creators.
In one of the more outrageous chapters of Bush-era censorship, federal prosecutors were able to use anti-terrorist laws to enforce their version of sexual morality. A creative strategy was used against Insex—rather than go after them for obscenity, it came up with a story that extreme porn funded terrorist networks. Lacking a case that would hold up in court, the government confronted Insex's credit card company with the allegations, and promptly got them to stop processing payments. Suddenly lacking an income stream, Insex folded very quickly. Insex still exists today, but only as an archive site.
