A portrait of Rosa von Praunheim's neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district. While the real Lady MacLaine reflects authentically and wittily on her life and work, her life is retold in dramatized scenes.

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The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date.

Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Réage. In 1994 Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered, dowdy editor for France’s prestigious Gallimard press, revealed her authorship. Pola Rapaport explores Aury's inspiration, recreating the world of '50s literary Paris and setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book to life. The author as well as various French intellectuals expound on the thorny relationship between sexuality and power, submission and freedom, liberation and non-being.

Documentary about the subculture of people interested in consensual sadomasochistic erotic play. The scene wants to be accepted like homosexual people are. Professional Dominatrix "Lady Isis", bondage-artist and publisher of magazine "Schlagzeilen" Matthias Grimme, a stand up comedian focusing on the topic Axel Tueting, a composer of session-music Carlos Peron, writer and artist Woschofius are interviewed.

Whether Satan exists is a matter of belief. But we are certain Satanism exists. To some it's a religion. To others it's the practice of evil in the devil's name. It exists and it's flourishing.

This highly controversial documentary, aired as part of the CBS Reports series, ostensibly covers the growing influence of the LGBT community in San Francisco circa 1979. Critics have rebuked the program for its characterization of the sexual practices of gay men, while organizations such as the Moral Majority referenced it in campaigns against gay rights ordinances.

"TDS, derrière l'écran des travailleuses du sexe" is a deep dive into the lives of Betty, Anaïs, Noochka, Manon, and Barty. They have all ventured into the world of selling sexual content online. What pushes someone to take the step of signing up on these platforms? What are their motivations? What are the consequences on their personal lives? Why do some choose to stick with it for years, while others decide to stop for good?

Mia recounts her most intimate confessions, uncensored, in her first approach to a totally new world of domination and submission.

Stud's world revolves entirely around sex, sex, and more sex — an interest he shares with his way-out friends and his girl Kitty, who likes her men mean and muscular!

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

True crime author Doug Shanks thought he'd seen it all until the day he dialed up a two legged nightmare, the psychotic dominatrix Flower. She ties him up and tortures him mercilessly until it's time to tell her a story. Doug stutters out a tale of a young Asian girl trapped in a broken down elevator with a boiler repairman who might just be Los Angeles' worst serial killer ever!