Whipped

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Filmmakers, Iana Porter and Sasha Waters, bring the world of bondage and discipline out of the dungeon and into the light in this revealing and intimate portrait of three women involved in the business of providing pain for pay. Ava, Carrie, and Sonja are three completely different women who hold the same job title: dominatrix. Their clients pay them for acting out various role-playing fantasies involving physical and emotional pain, humiliation, and bondage. Whipped explores their world--from the business to the personal, from their clients to their lovers. The veil of secrecy is drawn back, so we can judge for ourselves whether their work exploits human weakness or provides a valuable self-affirming service. Are these people psychologically deviant and damaged, or are they merely being honest and open about needs we all may harbor? Whipped is a probing and fascinating exploration that dares to go behind the whips and chains and into the people behind them. Sadomasochism, its nature and practice, has never been explored in such human terms as it is in Whipped.