If “Sex Is for Lovers,” Then What Is This Abomination We’ve Been Having?

If "Sex Is for Lovers," then who is fucking for? Lovemaking? Let's not even consider fisting. Sometimes a title is so irritating that one forgets all about the naked Europeans in the movie.

Denise Renato smiles as she watches her beloved taking a shower in a massive stone bathroom. He acknowledges her, smiling back, as if to say: "Yes, I heard you come in so I jerked it for a minute to make my dick look bigger in the shower." Then they fuck on the floor just like anyone else.

I can think of about a hundred better titles than this one that don't sound more ridiculous each time you say them. Here's a selection:

• "EuroVixens And the Men Who Seem Legitimately Attracted to Them Fucking"
• "Sex on Floors, Beds"
• "Heterosexual Europeans Doing It"
• "See? They're Not All Frowning Because of Austerity"
• "I Never Understood the Big Deal About Juliet Binoche"

What is different about this film? It is shot with fondness and light by Alis Locanta and features people like Aleska Diamond and Blue Angel in non-brutal, couples'-friendly positions. It's nice to watch if you just stop thinking about the title, which seems either prudish, exclusionary, or the best/worst consensus after the group rejected my suggestion: "This Really Ain't Wings of Desire."

· New Sensations (newsensations.com)
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