by Lexi Feinberg, JoBlo.com

John Waters' new comedic sex movie, A DIRTY SHAME, was slapped with an NC-17 rating, in the aftermath of the infamous Janet Jackson "boob incident" and simultaneous conservatism spreading like wildfires in America. The Catholic News Service criticized the movie for "almost non-stop rough, crude and profane language, full frontal nudity, sexual imagery, obscene gestures, scatological humor, casual portrayal and descriptions of deviant sexual practices, a glorification of freewheeling sex and some sacrilegious imagery." While such a critique may seem like an artistic death sentence to many film-makers, Waters was thrilled by the rave review. He is probably having it framed and mounted on his living room wall, as we speak.

The film tells the story of a repressed suburban town that has its worst fears realized - its townspeople are slowly but surely, becoming rampant sex addicts. Suzanne Shepherd plays Big Ethel, leader of the ‘Neuters’ (nickname for the people of the town who won’t jump on the hormonally decadent band wagon), and Johnny Knoxville plays the leader of the sex addicts. "Let's go sexing!" he announces whenever he and his cronies get a sexual itch they’d like scratched. Needless to say, they get the 'itch' more than a room full of kids with the chicken pox. Fetishes, exploitation, and deviant behavior proceed to shake the foundation of the town to its very core. Click here for full article