‘Sexy Baby’ Documents How the Cyber Age Changed Women and Sex
A 12-year-old girl, a 22-year-old labiaplasty patient, and a 32-year-old former adult film star: all are subjects of ‘Sexy Baby,’ a documentary premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival that explores the relationship between women and sex in the online era. Marlow Stern spoke with the filmmakers and subjects.
Sexy Baby, directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, a journalist and a photographer, respectively, at theMiami Herald, analyzes how pornography, social media, and pop culture are affecting the sex lives of girls and women through the eyes of its three female subjects. There’s Winnifred, a precocious 12-year-old growing up in New York City who struggles to balance her public and private lives in the age of Facebook; Laura, 22, an elementary school teacher in North Carolina whose porn-obsessed boyfriend is pressuring her to get a “labiaplasty,” a plastic surgery procedure that reduces the labia; and Nichole (aka Nikita Kash) is a 32-year-old ex-porn star who teaches housewives and co-eds pole-dancing lessons while trying to settle into a more conventional role and start a family.
Like the recently released documentary Bully, Sexy Baby is an important—and at times chilling—film meant to provoke intelligent debate.
