much like "sexploitation noir," a phrase coined by New York Times contributor, Richard Perez, in describing a dark sub genre of sexploitation, often exemplified by the BDSM inclined socalled "sleaze" paperbacks or pulps of the 1960s and the stag-like "roughies" or violence inclined preporn "adult" films, (also called "gothics" or "psychosexual" films" or "sexploitation cautionary tales") often distributed by Something Weird Video and exemplified by Perez's own, "Permanent Obscurity: Or A Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death."
Fetish noir or sexploitation noir remains at the heart of sexploitation cautionary tales ... with the femme fatale now explicitly using her sexuality and no longer keeping it submerged as in film noir.
by ventura69 October 8, 2010