April 3 saw the release of Candida Royalle’s first film in the Femme Chocolat series: Afrodite Superstar.
She’s touting it as “the first every sexually empowering ethnic erotic film.” Which it may very well be. There’s certainly none of the usual “phat booty” crap going on here.
I received a press release yesterday about the film:
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Candida Royalle, known for having pioneered the concept of female-sensitive adult movies for couples, and Venus Hottentot, a young African American fledgling filmmaker, have come together to create the first ever adult film that sensitively addresses the needs of women of color. Says Hottentot, who chose her name in honor of The Hottentot Venus, a South African woman who was kidnapped and sexually exploited in the 19th century, “I wanted to create an intelligent and non-pornographic/ non-exploitive sex film that features characters of color and would be uplifting instead of degrading.â€
AFRODITE SUPERSTAR is the first ethnically diverse feature to come out under Femme Chocolat, a new division of Candida Royalle’s internationally acclaimed Femme Productions. With Femme Chocolat she seeks to address the much neglected audience of ethnically diverse couples.
Reactions to a premier screening of the movie held at New York’s New School for Social Research were overwhelmingly positive. “Besides all the hotness and chemistry between performers, the plot is really engaging,†writes Audacia Ray in her column for the popular web site, Fleshbot.com.â€â€¦and the sizzling coupling between Simone Valentino and Mr. Marcus actually made us utter the word “Sweet!” out loud in a quiet movie theater… It’s not often you see two performers laughing and enjoying themselves during a sex scene instead of making faces like they’re slaughtering a suckling pig.â€
Sounds pretty good to me.
And it’s time to update Porn Movies for Women again. You know, when I first made that site, there weren’t that many porn for women films to choose from. Now I’m making changes every month – which is a good thing.
On a tangent, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Saatjie Baartman, one of the the Hottentot Venus women.
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