From: Chuck Kleinhans (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2009 - 19:08:40 PST
On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Steve Cooke wrote:
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> Does anyone have an inkling of where we could start searching for a
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As I remember it, Beeson made a number of films which were
distributed by an outfit in San Francisco that offered sex education
materials (broadly defined) for educational institutions (such as med
schools, social work programs, etc.). Her film "Touching" was a
hyper romantic depiction of lesbian sexuality (which provoked a
response film by Barbara Hammer, "Dyketactics"). I can't remember
the name of that distributor (doubtless now out of business) but some
Bay Area folks might. I believe some of that collection ended up with
a Bay Area school that offered professional training to sex therapists.
You can do an online title search in the Kinsey Institute collection
(their stuff does not circulate) at Indiana University; and also send
a query to their media librarian.
It's hard to imagine that those who manage her estate would be
unaware of or embarrassed by her sexual themed films which were well
known and widely circulated at the time. She was certainly frank in
depicting sex, with a strong strain of counterculturey romanticism.
CHUCK KLEINHANS
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