More than a decade ago, in 2003, a school teacher in Texas was arrested for selling vibrators to other women.
Her name is Joanne Webb, 43, and she is the mother of three children.
In fact, she used to teach at Sunday school.
Like more and more women at the time, Weber has become a representative of a Passion Party, selling \"marriage AIDS\" from massage oil to underwear to vibrators to other women, similar to the 1950 Tupperware party.
But in 2003, it was illegal to sell \"sex toys\" in Texas, even with more than five per person ---
State law says six or more people are interested in selling.
At the same time, residents of Texas can own as many guns as they want.
Weber\'s story frame 10-year-
Old documentary about the history of vibrators, false penises and other female sexual aids, titled passion and strength: The Technology of Orgasm, which was shown this week at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of Emiko Omori limited perspective on the annual Doc Fortnight festival at MoMA.
Like the book by historian Rachel Maines, the film records not only the amazing history of female sexual aids, but also the female orgasm itself, and since the 17 th century, how it is perceived, discussed, and written.
Focusing on the Victorian era so far, passion and power have drawn heavily from mainstream research to highlight some of the more strange methods and devices women have used when getting off from suction cups and doctors over the past 120 years or so
Help with the \"release\" therapy to relieve the \"hysteria\", to the multi-function motor, everything can be customized from the cream to the massage of the clit.
One of the largest manufacturers of the latter, in the 1920 s, was a small Chicago-based company called Sears and Roebuck.
Meins himself holds a prominent position in the film, and there are several other sexual idols --
An active feminist movement such as Dale Williams, who opened Eve\'s Garden, New York City\'s first female sex aids store, in 1974;
Show artist Reno
Artist and sex educator Betty Dodson, in the late 1960 s and in her early 70 s, was the first person to host a group masturbation seminar, with the help of a false penis, vibrator and mirror
She\'s still doing it.
The women took the film with them, although only 10 years old, but the film was out of date due to some rather special choices made by Dasen and her colleagues
Wendy Zoellick, director. -
That is to say, show most interviews in a rectangular frame set at an angle, just like a postcard thrown at a table at will.
Although initially distracting, the strength of the interview itself will eventually offset the impact.
After the screening at the MoMA on Wednesday, Dodson, Menes and the two directors discussed the production of the film and its continued relevance in 2017, and Dodson stressed that, when the film came out talking about social acceptance of women\'s sexuality and the political impact of women reaching a climax on their own, \"We haven\'t moved at all,\" half since she started hosting the party. century ago.
But that\'s not to say that Dodson or any woman on stage is pessimistic,
On the contrary, they believe that their career is ongoing and never is more urgent than it is today.
In response to a question from the audience, Dodson made an angry sigh about the group members\' greatest fear in the era of \"mainly pussy grab.
\"Oh, he\'s not that important.
\"Come on,\" she said, with her eyes wide open about Donald Trump\'s suggestion that he might withdraw 50 years of feminist work.
\"Don\'t focus so much on him.
The best thing about Trump is that we all become active.
It actually awakened democracy.
\"Power & Passion was shown only once during the Omori social perspective show, but it can still be purchased on DVD, or streamed through its website somyoforgasm. com.
With the popularity of intelligent technology,
In the toy market, the documentary itself will become more consolidated in time, and 2007 of the documentary looks like another stop in the worrying and fascinating history of women\'s sexual pleasure.