I expect this will end up in fhe flounder bin, but I’ll start it here because it doesn’t really fit any one category. It embraces relationships, art, money, living in TW, teaching, and others.
And no, it’s not quite what the title suggests.
I have a small group of extremely interesting students. Adult professionals with outgoing personalities and enquiring minds. Adventurous, and incidentally all female. They’re fairly liberal, feminists, and artistic too. I really enjoy the classes with them and we do get into some quite deep topics.
Last class we were talking about motivations and values, the important things that guide our decision-making. ie the ‘because’ that makes you choose a particular activity.*
One point that arose is that what you want, or value, is influenced by what you know and one of the girls then shared her ‘secret ambition’. She is an artist, and she wants to communicate something that will change society - or at least the part of society that gets her message. And the particualr issue she wants to address is the unequal status of most relationships in Taiwan. (I’m only repeating what I was told. I don’t know much about the truth or otherwise of this opinion.)
She feels that porn is made for men, and always objectifies women for men’s gratification. As a result, most women are not really aware that there is a higher ideal to aim for. And so she wants to make a porn movie for women, one which features a woman having great sex and really enjoying it and feeling good about it.
I’m not quite sure how explicit she wants it to be, and she insists that it should be ‘art’ rather than just shagging. But she wants it to be ‘for real’.
This all came out of the blue, and I boggled for a while, but it’s quite an interesting idea and we talked about it a lot.
There are issues with raising money to make a picture like this, and then with distribution. It’s not a solo project, and she’s going to need a team with more than just artistic aspirations. And then she’ll need actors, as she sees her role as that of director.
As a ‘class project’ I think we might pursue this further, research all that’s involved, prepare a business plan, and just generally go forward as if it’s something we actually intend to do. We’re all intrigued by the concept and the process of taking an inspiration down the path towards realisation. OK, it’ll probably never get anywhere beyond the drawing board, but it might be a fun class.
So I’m looking for input, ideas, observations, opinions, and all the rest of it.
If you were going to make a porn movie with a message, and aim to not lose money on it, but were starting from scratch, how would you begin?
And, before anyone asks, yes, she asked me to be in it. I don’t think that was code for wanting a shag, and I don’t think it’s a good idea anyway, but it’s nice to be asked. 
*For instance, I sail because it’s an activity that combines quite a lot of thinking with physical activity, and it’s all about mastering your environment. With your two hands and a bit of grey matter you can control your situation to achieve your goal. The ‘root’ therefore is control and the overcoming of a challenge. Sailing is only one way to pursue the real goal, it’s not the important thing in and of itself.
