Buying Sex

2013
5.5| 1h15m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 May 2013 Released
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Official Website: http://www.nfb.ca/film/buying_sex/
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Timely and wise, this feature documentary explores the state of prostitution laws in Canada. Buying Sex captures the complexity of the issue by listening to the frequently conflicting voices of sex workers, policy-makers, lawyers and even the male buyers who make their claim for why prostitution is good for society. Examining the realities in Sweden and New Zealand, and respecting the differences of ideology as Canada works its way toward an uneasy consensus, the film challenges us to think for ourselves and offers a gripping and invaluable account of just what is at stake for all of us.

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Teresa MacInnes, Kent Nason

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BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
benm-41751 This documentary is really engaging because it doesn't intervene in the expression of perspectives on prostitution. There is no narrator: You hear directly from people who are vocal about the laws around prostitution. They each get a chance to say what they feel, and their arguments speak for themselves. Importantly, the majority of the platform is given to current and former sex workers who take different stances on the way laws can best protect women in an undeniably gendered profession.
Balluna Should prostitution be legalized? Decriminalized? Should prostitutes be afforded legal status but johns criminalized? This film doesn't take a position. It gives thoughtful discussion showing different views and goes on location to Canada, New Zealand and Sweden, countries which revamped prostitution laws in fairly recent years. A central character, the lawyer responsible for forcing Canada to legalize prostitution, looks like a nice enough guy. He argues that some people really do want to be sex workers (true!) and they should be allowed to do that despite what anyone thinks. But in the end, he seems like a self-satisfied blowhard and somewhat shallow, blustery showoff with no deeply thought out solutions for how to help protect vulnerable women from violence and exploitation.I wished he could have sat down directly with the prohibition movement people after they toured Sweden because at least one of his theories (that it's human nature and raw impulse and therefore unavoidable) seemed profoundly rebutted by Swedes defending the Swedish model of criminalizing the john but protecting and supporting the prostitute.If you watch this film, have the grit to finish it all the way through to the end. Don't just stop midway because the subject matter seems salacious, unpalatable or embarrassing. This is a good topic for dialogue and this film is a good way to jump-start the dialogue. Nothing dark and sinister is glossed over in this film. It does not trivialize or argue for prostitution. It tries to get at real truth. One is left thinking, a very good way to be left sometimes when issues are complex. I wish it had been longer and there'd been more interaction among the different people involved.
babiit33 The people in this documentary who are encouraging prostitution are overlooking what this implies. It continues to objectify women by selling them as commodities. The men on this documentary who buy sex won't their faces because they claim to be married. As if it isn't hard enough to keep a marriage together, now this documentary is trying to promote the legalization of prostitution to tell men that it is OK to get sex elsewhere and it is not cheating because it is not a relationship. There are YOUNG, naive girls in this documentary who are prostituting themselves, legally in various countries. This documentary reveals a part of humanity that is completely regressive.