We often wonder what good ol' Richard von Krafft-Ebing would think of us here at Fleshbot if he were around today: would he applaud our efforts to expose audiences everywhere to the full range of human sexual expression, or would he think our obsession with things like nipple slips and Japanese sex dolls was symptomatic of some kind of deep-rooted psychosexual illness? Just think—we could have wound up as one of the vignettes in "Psychopathia Sexualis", filmmaker Bret Wood's cinematic adaptation of Krafft-Ebing's 1886 sensationalist treatise on sexual "perversities". All of our hyperesthesiastic enthusiasm about Scarlett Johansson's boobs surely would have fallen on that erotophobic continuum somewhere.

· "Psychopathia Sexualis" (official film site @ kino.com)
· "Watching Psychopathia Sexualis" (comstockfilms.com)
· Bret Wood's Efforts and Exploits (bretwood.blogspot.com)
· Order: Krafft-Ebing, "Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories" (Amazon)

Previously: "Shortbus" at Cannes, "The Erotic Eye And Its Nude", Sex On The Brain, Mapping Sex in America, Kinsey: Protests and Raves