Where There's A Will ...

Friday night in Spain, at least in my corner of it, is the night of sex and drugs, at least on TV. Nearly all the programmes are about all aspects of these vices, recently more of it's commercial side; the sex and drug trade. There are endless stories of prostitutes, pimps, addicts, traffickers, rapists and child molesters. If a Martian lands in Spain on this night and watch TV, he would run off convinced that this must be the most sordid hole of perdition of the cosmos.

There are fictional stories, semi-documentaries, reality programmes; one about under aged prostitutes in Cuba, with hidden cameras filming their activities and street life, rape cases with testimonies of victims and witnesses, some include reconstruction using actors, selling these to TV viewers instead of films and entertainment, which no doubt costs more to make programmes with known actors and lots of technicians, involving studios and location costs. Or cabarets needing fantasy settings, costumes, musical bands & equipment.

With Sex as appetizer, a team of 4 or 5 and a camera, following some people of the street, many of whom would be so besotted of appearing on TV, would likely be more than happy to do it for nothing.

Amongst all that, mostly rubbish, there was one documentary I thought rather interesting. A docu-report with the main titled '''Extraordinary People', and sub-titled: 'Incapacitated - Sex for one night'. It's a British production of reality-documentary-report, following 3 disabled men - one with damaged mellow, one with muscular disorder, and one blind - first the interview where they voiced their demand of the right to enjoy sex, then the recorded and filmed adventure of them turning their wish into reality.

As they found they were forever unceremoniously turned down by girls they meet, purely for their physical state, they decided to organize a trip, helped and support by the parents of one of them, to visit a 'Club' where girls are happy to 'help', in exchange for some € of course. They said they are asking only what is every man's right to experience being with a woman, to be caressed, pampered, to enjoy carnal contact and sexual pleasure. If there are women who are willing to give them what they wish voluntarily, and the payment is handed over also voluntarily, who is to say that's wrong?

How does one distinguish the difference of this noble exchange from prostitutes and customers and therefore a sex deal? This 'club' they visited, naturally or coincidentally, is in Costa Brava!

Tags: sex, drug, docureport

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