Sunday, May 29, 2016

LAZY HAZY CRAZY (2015): Hong Kong Teen Prostitutes & Schoolgirl Lipstick Lesbians



The Film Society of Lincoln Center's website posted "a list of 15 key titles that shape the themes" of the 15th anniversary edition of the festival. Lazy Hazy Crazy (2015) [Cantonese: 同班同學] "in which schoolgirls explore the city’s heart of greed by charging for sex" is one of the films listed. 


Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter wrote" 
"Lazy revels in its bubble baths and experimental lesbianism, yet ties the characters’ growth to how they relate to men [...], [t]he drama, which also dabbles in a smattering of semi-explicit situations [is] designed to give the film a raw, shocking edge [...] [but] [t]he film is also smart and somewhat blunt [...]"

In additional to graphic teen prostitution and ephebophilia, like Kerr mentioned, there were at least two teen lipstick lesbian scenes. 

In one scene, Chloe slyly told Alice that her tampon was lost. To the utter pleasure of Chloe, Alice deeply and thoroughly searched Chloe's treasure, until Tracy discovered the tampon in the bathroom. (A similar scenario happened in Netflix's Grand Army (2020) when Joey (Odessa A'zion) helped a high school classmate remove a condom from her vagina.)


Chloe shared that she was initiated into prostitution at the age of 14 after her friend's approximately 50-year-old father leered at her and insisted on driving her home before he gave her 5,000 Yuan for sex.


Lazy Hazy Crazy, which was interestingly written by Yee-sum Luk, a female, was nominated for the Asian Future Best Film Award at the 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Film at the 2015 Stockholm Film Festival.

Friday, May 20, 2016

TAN Digest: "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" & "Fanny Hill" | Euro Teen Seductress & Prostitute



In the chapter "Sparkle, Sweetie!" of Orenstein's Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Orenstein wrote that the prepubescent beauty contestants reminded her of 18th century European museum portraits of: 
"[...] European princesses - little girls in low-cut gowns, their hair piled high, their cheeks and lips roughed red - that were used to attract potential husbands, typically middle-aged men [...]" 
And Orenstein overheard an overeager mother adjure her 6-year-old, "[O]ne of the judges is a man, so be sure you wink at him!"
The Paris Review tweeted a link to an article about John Cleland’s: 
"[...] two-volume novel called Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, published when he was in debtor’s prison between 1748 and 1749 [...]" 
In the book, Fanny entered the brothel when she was 15, which preceded her "sexual initiation" that involved lipstick lesbian sex with a seasoned prostitute. And her first customer was a: "[...] debauched elderly caller “with a yellow cadaverous hue”."

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Wedekind's MINE-HAHA, OR THE BODILY EDUCATION OF YOUNG GIRLS: Nude German Theater Teens


The Guardian's Sophia Martelli said of Frank Wedekind's Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls: "This slim volume is fresh, perverse and disconcerting."

Here's part of Amazon's summary
[...] Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls—part idyllic refuge, part prison—where pupils are trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance, and music, before issuing them into an adult world for which they have (unwittingly) been prepared.
It states in the novella's introduction that Wedekind recorded in his diary that when he visited London's Middlesex Music Hall in 1894 he saw "a dancing girl, no more than a child" appear "in a 'brief white princess frock, with bare legs, short white socks and little shoes gilded morocco leather', revealing her 'white lace knickers up to the waist'." And that "[w]hen she came off stage there was a 'bawling, screeching and whistling as in a zoo when meat appears in front of the cages'."

In the novella's text, the nymphets habitually practice walking on their hands during their theater performances of the lustful and brutal The Gnat Prince, which "[..] is an erotic fantasy, since, provided the girls are in dresses or skirts [...] it promises the viewer, or voyeur, a sight of the forbidden as gravity takes its course."

Hidalla, the novella's narrator, played one of five peasants in the play. The peasant's customs, which were put on after the girls undressed, "were very simple, short skirt, blue or red, which stretched from the waist to the knee." 

When the peasants weren't walking around the stage on their hands, while their pigtails dragged as the audience leered at their budding bottom-grass and hillocks, Hidalla narrated, "During the second act we peasants had nothing to do but lie on the steps and display our naked upper bodies and calves." 

In terms of the brutality in The Gnat Prince, the youngest girl had to receive "good beating". One could hear the full house's "cheering anticipation" as the scene began. After the lashing, the nymphet was "crowned queen and carried around in the most precious raiments on a golden throne."

Lastly, the girls, who ranged in ages from 7 to 13, were forced to suppress their lesbian urges, which is why their housekeepers were banned from leaving the walled residence. "When she was here as a child, she went to another girl. That's why she's still here." 

Mine-Haha isn't Wedekind's only play. His first major play was Spring Awakening [German: Frühlings Erwachen] (1891). And Spring Awakening, the bawdy teen Broadway play, is based on Wedekind's play. 


John Irvin's The Fine Art of Love (2005) was inspired by Mine-Haha. And Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence (2004) is based on the novella.

Unsurprisingly, Wedekind was an (acting) ephebophile. According to his Diary of an Erotic Life, Wedenkind used to "pick up" Parisian women "usually cocottes" but "occasionally juveniles, to whom he was strongly attracted." And in 1906, he married Tilly Newes, an Austrian actress, who was twenty-two years his junior.