O2 party encourages drinking, strapping, lechery


One movie I eagerly anticipate is Ernest Greene’s O2: The Surrender of O. I thought the first in the series of character adaptations from Anne Desclos’ 1954 Story of O was an excellent example of porn done right.

The first movie starred Adam & Eve contract performer Carmen Luvana, and the sequel stars Luvana’s successor at Adam & Eve, Bree Olson.

“When you try to do a narrative in which sex is only an incidental part of the dramatic content,” Greene said, “the result is like a high-school play with sex. Both the story and the sex seem discordant.”

Greene took what was, at the time of its publication, a Harlequin romance with a real edge and turned it into a porn movie with heart.

“In modernizing the setting, I had to allow for the real cultural changes that have happened, particularly in the world of BDSM, since Declos’ time,” Greene said. “One thing we do have that she and her circle did not is a thriving, self-aware community of kinksters, who have a working understanding of the erotic technique of consensual power exchange and the elements that combine to make a D/s relationship succeed or fail.”

The release of O2 will be celebrated at a 21-and-over party on Friday, November 14 at Boardner’s in Hollywood. Doors open at 9:30 and there is a $10 cover charge to access the three full bars, the DJ who probably won’t play any Jonas Brothers, and fetishy antics throughout. Guests will include Nina Hartley, Bree Olson, and other members of the cast.

I enjoy Boardners. Last fall I went to a party there and didn’t drink and still had a good time. This year I will be drinking. It’s important you know this.

Greene’s summation of the character of O is just as applicable to the November 14 party.

“Until she accepts herself as a human being who can love and be loved and still find fulfillment within the terms of her particular kind of sexuality, she has no hope for a lasting relationship of any kind,” Greene said.

But she can still drink.

Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Nina Hartley and Ernest Greene interview; Surrender of O first look; Workingman’s Gunn
See also: Surrender of O

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