Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Antique vibrator from Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm
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Friday Nov 28, 2008 (7pm)
Saturday Nov 29, 2008 (8pm)
Monday Dec 1, 2008 (8:15pm)
Tuesday Dec 2, 2008 (8pm)
Thursday Dec 4, 2008 (8pm)
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$9
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Don't be too complacent about that breezy Cosmo headline promising "ten G-spot toys you'll love." As Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori's documentary shows, the road to the Hitachi Magic Wand was paved with much faulty medical discourse, legal battles, and pioneering feminist scholarship over one contentious piece of plastic: the vibrator. Passion and Power traces the history of the love buzzer from its 20th-century inception as a hysteria suppressant to a pleasure tool reclaimed by first-wave feminists. The doc also critiques a strange, sexist double standard: some states prohibit the sale of vibrators, but allow men to buy Viagra.
