Female Misbehavior

REVIEW
Amusing and provocative, this series of four shorts explores the expanding boundaries of female sexuality by focusing on four unique and divergent women. Bondage (1983, 20 min) features an unidentified woman explaining the pleasures of bondage and tit torture and the "very warm, very safe, very secure" feeling that comes with it. Annie (1989, 10 min) stars ex-porn actress and performance artist (and self-declared "post-porn modernist") Annie Sprinkle, who offers an entertaining segment in which she transforms "average" women into sex stars and invites the audience to join her in examining and admiring her cervix with the aid of a flashlight and a speculum. Dr. Paglia (1992, 23 min) features Dr. Camile Paglia, who came into contentious prominence with the publication of her best-selling book, "Sexual Personae," in 1990. The narcissistic, "anti-feminist" feminist and "academic rottweiler" discusses her theories as well as her disastrous sex life. Max (1992, 27 min) is perhaps the most fascinating of the segments. Interviewed is Native American Anita Valerio, who was formerly a stunningly beautiful lesbian but who now, thanks to surgery, is Max, a handsome heterosexual "almost" male. His discussion of the power of testosterone is highly amusing.