Comments on: Sexual violence in the Congo http://gravlee.org/sexuality/2008/12/03/sexual-violence-in-the-congo-2/ Course blog in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Fay http://gravlee.org/sexuality/2008/12/03/sexual-violence-in-the-congo-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1467 Fay Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:38:09 +0000 http://gravlee.org/sexuality/?p=250#comment-1467 Cannibal Holocaust is a film classic that deals with rape in the amazon among other topics, but from more of a movie perspective than the straight up documentary style we saw in class. It is on the graphic side, so anyone who was remotely disturbed by the film in class should be wary. Salo (The 120 Days of Sodom) is another film classic that has recently become available in the US. It also deals with rape, but is set in 1944 fascist Italy. It focuses on how sex can be used as a form of degradation. It is extremely graphic and controversial (hence it not being sold in the US until recently), but if you have the stomach for it, it will give you a whole new outlook on the relationship between sex, free-will, and the assertion of power. Also, unrelated to rape, there is a quirky and weird series of short films also from the Sundance Film Festival about some random sexual behaviors of various insects. You can watch them for free at http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/ Cannibal Holocaust is a film classic that deals with rape in the amazon among other topics, but from more of a movie perspective than the straight up documentary style we saw in class. It is on the graphic side, so anyone who was remotely disturbed by the film in class should be wary.

Salo (The 120 Days of Sodom) is another film classic that has recently become available in the US. It also deals with rape, but is set in 1944 fascist Italy. It focuses on how sex can be used as a form of degradation. It is extremely graphic and controversial (hence it not being sold in the US until recently), but if you have the stomach for it, it will give you a whole new outlook on the relationship between sex, free-will, and the assertion of power.

Also, unrelated to rape, there is a quirky and weird series of short films also from the Sundance Film Festival about some random sexual behaviors of various insects. You can watch them for free at http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

]]> By: Kathryn http://gravlee.org/sexuality/2008/12/03/sexual-violence-in-the-congo-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 Kathryn Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:55:04 +0000 http://gravlee.org/sexuality/?p=250#comment-1462 This was an extremely powerful video. My friends and I were just gasping and horrified at some of the things that were said in the video. I noticed that everyone interviewed kept calling the genitals the "sexes" and never once said the real biological names. This is different from the US. I personally didn't know that this was that big of a problem. I also didn't realize the war was still strong. I knew that in the past it plagued Africa, but had no idea that it was still a pressing issue. I think that Americans (and probably other industrialized countries) need more information to be made readily available to them about such topics. I realize that it is hard to get such information, but we should work on it. We have problems on the home front right now (for example the economy), that probably makes some citizens not care as much for issues outside our own borders. In all, this video really opened my eyes, and I feel like we should all play a bigger role in this besides just buying products like jewelry, cell phones, and computers. This was an extremely powerful video. My friends and I were just gasping and horrified at some of the things that were said in the video.

I noticed that everyone interviewed kept calling the genitals the “sexes” and never once said the real biological names. This is different from the US.

I personally didn’t know that this was that big of a problem. I also didn’t realize the war was still strong. I knew that in the past it plagued Africa, but had no idea that it was still a pressing issue. I think that Americans (and probably other industrialized countries) need more information to be made readily available to them about such topics. I realize that it is hard to get such information, but we should work on it. We have problems on the home front right now (for example the economy), that probably makes some citizens not care as much for issues outside our own borders.

In all, this video really opened my eyes, and I feel like we should all play a bigger role in this besides just buying products like jewelry, cell phones, and computers.

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