This documentary of under an hour explores touch based service businesses including cuddling, erotic massage, sex surrogacy and sex work. Some people venture into this line of work as a side hustle, despite having another full time job and for others this is their full time job. Like it goes for many documentary styles, we meet 4-5 folks who fall in this category and who for various reasons are into the business of providing these services.
We meet a cuddle expert, who talk sabot how he wasn't also aware of this service but now he gets clients who like this but the guy also emphasized on the importance of consent. We do overlook how little touch we get every day. And how it can be emotionally taxing as well trying to look for someone to be intimate with -- so hiring someone just makes a lot of sense. There is another guy who talks about how he provides mostly BDSM massage services and how he gets repeated clients and there is something there that he fulfills desires of his clients and he must be doing something ok that begets repeat customers. An interesting take is given by Raj on how he treats his disabled customers and how everyone has the right to feel pleasured and loved. He also talks about how he told his mother and family about what he does for work and how they have all been eventually very supportive of what he does.
As much as these subjects make sense, the logical side of my brain still thinks that these are somehow justifications for doing the job that you are doing. I mean, at one point we do say that no work is small or big, but then at the same point, why are we making documentaries where people have to justify what they are doing? There was not even larger motive where we could go maybe more deep into the history of sex work or even legalizing it; but it was simply lets talk to these 4 subjects, hears their point of view on why they do what they do and thats is. The makers themselves do not give any opinion whatsoever. Sure, it was interesting to watch something new, but personally I didn't get to hear or learn anything new (besides getting paid to be cuddled) that I did not know before. (3/10)
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