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human sexuality

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This dynamic film explores the lives of six New York City women who assume the category of "aggressive" through masculine roles, behavior, and dress. It offers a unique appreciation of a little known subculture within society's gender tapestry.



In a Los Angeles film studio, the cameras roll on an X-rated film, and in the director's chair sits a woman. In New York and San Francisco, companies created by women market hard-core videos to the female consumer.



2008 Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject, La Corona (The Crown) explores the lives of female contestants in an unusual beauty pageant at a high security prison in Bogotá, Colombia. The film addresses issues of female identity, sexuality, crime and equality.



Journalist Linda Ellerbee examines the state of contraception in the U.S. today, including women's dissatisfaction with the methods currently available.



This video series features thirty young men and women, ages 15 to 24, who share their thought-provoking, humorous and sometimes painful reflections on sexuality and growing up.



This video series features thirty young men and women, ages 15 to 24, who share their thought-provoking, humorous and sometimes painful reflections on sexuality and growing up.



This documentary about the people embroiled in and affected by the same-sex marriage debate, deftly captures what gets lost in most news reports, the human emotions behind the headlines.



Psychologists, psychiatrists and gay people speak directly to high school age youngsters and respond to their questions, concerns and fears about homosexuality.



This feature-length drama from Northern Ireland portrays a group of teenage schoolgirls (starring Emer McCourt and Sinead O'Connor) at a convent school, giddy with excitement over their discovery of boys and a newfound sense of sexuality, and the emotional turmoil and social isolation one of them experiences when she must deal with an unexpected pregnancy.



This short drama is a baseball movie with a difference. R.E. Rodgers (Law and Order, Oz) plays David Paxton, an aging minor-league player haunted by dark secrets from his childhood.



This provocative and emotionally unsettling video examines the realities behind the myth of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), the French author who, charged with numerous sexual offenses, spent half of his adult life in prisons or asylums.



This three-part video series examines different social aspects of the cultures of Mesoamerica (i.e., the nations of Mexico and Central America).



In this unusual family portrait, filmmaker Mary Patierno focuses on her gay brother, David, recording significant events during the last years of his life.



Odd Ones Out documents four years in the courageous lives of three transgender teens, Naomi, David and Tot, as they transition into adulthood and face life-altering events



This provocative video examines the relationships between contemporary feminism, free speech, and the sex industry. Filmmaker Rebecca Alvin interviews a variety of sex-positive feminists, women who stress tolerance of sexual diversity, the freedom to express one's sexuality and identify, the rights of sex workers, and the importance of making sex-related information available.



Seasonale. Depo-Provera. Librel. As pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs that allow women to stop their periods for months and years at a time, this film investigates the social, cultural and medical implications of this increasingly popular new trend.



Filmmaker Hali Lee grew up in suburban Kansas City, where she remembers her own high school prom as a drag. In later years, however, she became obsessed with trying to understand the appeal of this quintessentially American tradition--was it the pageantry, the poignant pretensions of teenagers dressing up as "adults," the myth of prom as a pagan coming-of-age ritual, or the ersatz memories?



A fascinating and moving insight into the lives of South Africa's black lesbians who, raped because of their sexuality, refuse to become victims. It shatters all preconceptions of homosexuality in Africa.



Examines sexual attitudes of high school youngsters in different environments, from suburb to inner city, including frank discussion of virginity, birth control, physical appearance, emotional involvement, sexual abuse, masturbation, acceptance and self- confidence.



This video profiles four young people at the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York, which supports lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual youth.



This historical documentary is a deeply disturbing portrait of Magdalene Asylums run by Catholic nuns in Ireland. For over a hundred years girls and young women were sent to live and work in the Magdalene Asylums' Laundries after they'd had sexual or "sinful" contact with men.



Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M-hustler-turned-AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest.



Examines the reasons for the high number of hysterectomies performed on women every year, the alternatives available, the side effects and after-effects. Includes interviews with doctors, other professionals, and women who have undergone the operation.



This short film offers an intimate peek into the sexual and psychological underpinnings of a modern relationship.



The AIDS pandemic in Africa as seen through the eyes of two young girls, an American and South African teenager, featuring the music of the Dave Matthews Band and U2.



Examines the worldwide crisis in teenage pregnancies through four case studies of teenage mothers in Ghana, England, Cuba, and the U.S., thereby providing a cross-cultural survey of the underlying reasons for the increasing rate of adolescent pregnancies and also discussing the hazards to the health and well-being of such young mothers.



A stark and honest look at the explosion of teen pregnancy in Brazil, Teen Mothers is an award-winning documentary that follows four young girls, aged 13 to 15, through the course of their pregnancies and into the early days of motherhood.



Shot in Harlem, this film features young minority men and women speaking frankly about their thoughts, feelings, misconceptions, and fantasies about sex.



An intimate and poignant documentary that explores what it's like to be gay in modern China from the filmmakers of the Academy Award-winning documentary, The Blood of Yingzhou District.



Profiles Katherine Cohen (formerly Bruce Cohen) and her decision to undergo male-to- female sex reassignment surgery. In interviews before the surgery, Cohen discusses her prior life, including a marriage and two children, relations with her family and her lifelong conflicted feelings about her sexuality.



Trinidad, Colorado (pop. 6,500) is one of the world's leading centers for gender reassignment surgery. This compelling documentary introduces us to patients who have made the pilgrimage to this small midwestern town and explores how it came to be known the "Sex Change Capitol of the World."



Examines the West African religious institution of trokosi, where young women are chosen to serve an indefinite period of servitude for crimes committed long ago by their grandparents and even great-grandparents.



This video is a shocking but insightful expose of the taboo subject of homosexual rape and homosexual relations in prison.



Examines the birth control injection Depo Provera and the international controversy over its use, raising disturbing questions about racism and sexism in health care, population control vs. birth control, and how drugs are tested and marketed.



Earlier this year, Gustav Klimt's "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" was sold for $135 million, the largest amount ever paid for a painting. This wonderful new documentary invites viewers to explore Vienna at the turn-of-the-century and the rich artistic movement that engendered such a work.



Focusing on the issue of male contraception, this film features high school students from various ethnic backgrounds portraying couples and individuals in difficult circumstances involving birth control.