Much has been said/written/vented about the banning of Travis Matthews' <i>I Want Your Love</i> at this year's Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Many have stressed their disagreement with the Classification Board's claim that the six minutes of sex in Matthews' film did not advance the plot and I'd agree - the sex was nothing if not character driven. What is interesting is just how unerotic realistically depicted sex actually is. Not that it is unattractive; Matthews' film is actually incredibly beautiful in the way that it films the guys getting down and dirty, but it so tied up in the participants, in the case of <i>I Want Your Love</i>&nbsp;two (or three) guys, that it is the facial expressions, the laughs and the unsure expressions that become far more interesting than the mechanics of the bits going up and down, or in and out, or gushing forth. And it is the lead up to the actual act, the will-he-won't-he moments that really provide the tension in these scenes. All it takes is one section of&nbsp;Marco Berger and Marcelo Mónaco's <i>Sexual Tension: Volatile</i>&nbsp;to prove that. The anthology film, with six sections alternately directed by Berger and Mónaco, traces the outline of sex but never actually breaks through. It is a very cheeky 85 minutes of cock teasing but it is also a lot of fun. Each segment takes a potential man on man liaison as a starting point and works…

Much has been said/written/vented about the banning of Travis Matthews' I Want Your Love at this year's Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Many have stressed their disagreement with the Classification Board's claim that the six minutes of sex in Matthews' film did not advance the plot and I'd agree - the sex was nothing if not character driven. What is interesting is just how unerotic realistically depicted sex actually is. Not that it is unattractive; Matthews' film is actually incredibly beautiful in the way that it films the guys getting down and dirty, but it so tied up in the participants, in the case of I Want Your Love two (or three) guys, that it is the facial expressions, the laughs and the unsure expressions that become far more interesting than the mechanics of the bits going up and down, or in and out, or gushing forth. And it is the lead up to the actual act, the will-he-won't-he moments that really provide the tension in these scenes. All it takes is one section of Marco Berger and Marcelo Mónaco's Sexual Tension: Volatile to prove that. The anthology film, with six sections alternately directed by Berger and Mónaco, traces the outline of sex but never actually breaks through. It is a very cheeky 85 minutes of teasing but it is also a lot of fun. Each segment takes a potential man on man liaison as a starting point and works it up to the point that it is just about…

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