Sex, Drugs, and Democracy
Sex, Drugs, and Democracy is Jonathan Blank’s award-winning, indie cult film, which grossed over $1 million in its art-house run.
The Dutch idea of a free society includes a legalized sex industry, the open sale of marijuana and hashish, total equality for gays, distribution of clean syringes and methadone to addicts, and government financed abortion, euthanasia and sex education for schoolchildren.
Has this unconventional approach changed Holland from a land of tulips, windmills and wooden shoes into a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah?
Apparently not. In Holland rates of drug use, addiction and AIDS transmission are extremely low, and the Dutch have the lowest rates of abortion, teenage pregnancy and imprisonment in the world.
Filmed over the course of many months spent in Holland by writer/director Jonathan Blank, the provocative documentary has revealing interviews with everyone from government officials, police, clergy and scientists to club owners, drug dealers and prostitutes and outrageous scenes from hash bars, brothels, nightclubs, prisons and rallies. The outstanding soundtrack features music from American and Dutch indie bands.
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I had to stop watching this half-way since this documentary is just hopelessly out-of-date. I somehow doubt that its portrayal of Holland as a multi-cultural paradise held true in the early 90s, but even if was true then, it is certainly not the case today as the recent European elections have shown.
@Alan
As a dutchman, I couldn’t agree more with your opinion :)
dutch is the most shameless nation in the world …on the name of freedom they all have become sex slaves and they hav made their women nude ..huh wat a shame
Incredible! Open mindedness at it’s most interesting height.
after reading the title im not gonna watch this.
sounds like a sick and twisted idea.
why are all of you so against legal prostitution and weed?
Don’t tell me that it’s personally “just bad!” because of your own moral feelings about it, that’s just ignorant!
If I wanna smoke up or see a hooker, it’s none of your fu***** business unless it affects you!
Think of it like this: You turn on your TV, the first channel you’re on is airing Scrubs or Funniest Home Videos, you don’t have to watch it, change the channel!
So if you don’t like seeing two consenting adults(or more) exchange sex for money, JUST DON’T GO TO A DISTRICT WHERE THIS WOULD HAPPEN!
If it was legal in your own countries it would most likely be concentrated in specific streets, so you would know where not to go.
So stop being douchebags thinking you know what’s best for anyone! That’s such a d***move!
btw, sorry for the obsceneties, didn’t notice that it would have to go through moderation. Really sorry about having to make anyone have to replace some letters with asterixes, i’ll do it myself in the future to save you time.
Again, sorry about that…