Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (New Black Studies Series)

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A Middle Eastern girl comes to America to for an arranged marriage but ends up a go-go dancer with a psychotic police officer as her guardian angel.

Photography student Nadja Groß (Henriette Heinze) has a lot on her plate, she goes to school, she has a job as a free lancer photographer for a magazine, while economically helping her ... See full summary» A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away. Two unknown people have furtive encounters with the sole intention of having sexual relations. Soon the simple relationship will become more complex, as feelings, drama and curiosities come into play. In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin. A young man and woman have a sensual, one-night stand in a motel room where they confide in each other about their troubled lives.A woman becomes involved with a man she barely knows. Complications develop during their sexual escapades.

Photographer O's lover takes her to a Château, where she is, like other women there, naked, humiliated by whipping, sexual abuse by men etc. When O leaves, her lover gives her to his much older step-brother. An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.

While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts. A girl living alone in an apartment has sporadic relations with lovers of a single night. One day she meets a man who awakens in her the desire to experience sadomasochism. A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him. After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal. Audrey, a young French actress in Hollywood, meets Tony, chauffeur of luxury car. She needs him for rides and he is looking for a "boss" who dominates and humiliates him. It is a medium-length film in which a single mother decides to leave her son with her father to devote herself exclusively to the hotel where she works, as it requires a lot of time. A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.