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Sexuality & Culture (2015) 19:115 DOI 10.1007/s12119-014-9240-7
ORIGINAL PAPER
William B. Husband
Published online: 14 June 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Abstract The collapse of Communism and the advent of the internet shifted the center of gravity in violent spanking pornography from Japan and Great Britain to the Czech Republic and Russia. Exploiting the vagueness of anti-pornography legislation, Czech and Russian internet pornographers displayed a propensity for realistic violence that surprised even veteran observers of the spanking genre, and viewers have speculated about ties to international slave trafcking known as the Natasha trade. Such links have not moved beyond speculation, and Czech companies have taken steps to distance themselves from such charges, while Russian producers of spanking pornography have emerged as the worlds most violent.
Keywords Pornography Spanking Russia
A pivotal moment in global pornography occurred on January 1, 2002 when the Czech adult lm company Rigid East released via the internet its tenth movie, a 45 min feature entitled The Wild Party. The plot was not complex. Four young females convene at the home of a friend whose parents were away, where they begin an evening of drinking and light girl-on-girl fondling. When the father of the hostess returns unexpectedly, however, matters take a violent turn. Each of the ve young women is stripped and spanked with a heavy rod, and the severity of these beatings surpasses the traditional six strokes of punishment in English public schools, the previous standard in spanking pornography, many times over (http://www.rge-films.com
Web End =www.rge-lms.com , 2014). What impressed viewers who copiously posted their reactions on-line was the realism of action. The ferocity of the beatings could not have possibly been faked, a large number concluded, and the young women were not accomplished enough actresses to have counterfeited the surprise and fear they displayed when the
W. B. Husband (&)
Department of History, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5104, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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movie turned from female partying to beatings and humiliation (http://www.svrpage.net
Web End =www.svrpage.net , 2010).
Internet reviewers hailed The Wild Party as an instant classic of its genre, even as some speculated that the actresses had been coerced. Surveying the sustained impact of...