Adding Insult to Injury: The
Sessions
What a stupid, sanctimonious and quite enjoyable picture.
Yes it’s well done -- but what lengths do we have to go to these days in order
to excuse ourselves from watching two people fucking? First of all the poor
disabled guy who wants to hire a sex surrogate has to go to a priest (William
H. Macy in a thankless role) to get permission. And just so we don’t confuse
her with a prostitute, Helen Hunt explains the difference: “A prostitute is
interested in getting your business again, I am not.” Oh, I see. So if a client
saw you once and then phoned the sex surrogate agency and said “She was really
bad at her job fire her” you’d be happy, Helen? I don’t think so. This movie is
an insult to prostitutes everywhere. The lengths it goes to in order to
differentiate between prostitution and sex surrogacy are insulting. The truth:
PROSTITUTION AND SEX SURROGACY ARE THE SAME THING, unless of course you hate
sex and women. Prostitutes perform a service. Sex surrogates perform a service.
Both are paid. Both have sex with clients because it is a job, for money, to
satisfy the clients sexually, not to satisfy themselves. This movie -- though
warm and entertaining -- is full of shit around sexual politics. Maybe we’re just
all so glad to see some sex on the screen that is ‘okay’ for us to watch, maybe
we’re just such HYPOCRITES that we’ll ignore even the height of hypocrisy to
get our fix. Read my lips. Sex is okay. Prostitutes are okay. Sex surrogacy is
okay. You don’t need a fucking priest to give you permission for ANY of it,
dummy.
Okay?
