Filmmakers Took 7 Years To Make Documentary On The History Of Vibrators

[matcom]

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Bay Area filmmakers Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori never imagined that it would take more than seven years to make a documentary about one electrical appliance. They were wrong.

Their subject was the history of vibrators.

"Wendy and I both came out of the sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll generation," Omori said. "We thought we knew it all. We hardly knew anything."

"Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm" premieres at Lincoln Center in New York on Saturday and will be screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. The cast of characters includes two feminist pioneers, a homemaker arrested for selling vibrators at Tupperware-like parties in Texas and Rachel Maines, a scholar who in 1977 stumbled upon turn-of-the-century ads for the device while researching needlework patterns.

"The vibrator was contemporaneous with the toaster and before the steam iron and vacuum cleaner," Maines said in a phone interview. "We had our priorities right."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/22/LVGPOR337A1.DTL

[underpants]

1. I hear there is a big buzz about this

OH SNAP!

[AllegroRondo]

2. I hear the film has lots of high points and a happy ending

[LynneSin]

3. I heard this is a movie you can enjoy alone or with others

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