Bringing Back The 1970s Nunsexploitation Genre
Last night I was so depressed I needed a way to distract myself for a while. There was something on my mind that made me think about nuns and the nunsexploitation genre of the 1970s era that caught my attention. But I believe these movies started out in the late 1960s before they became relevant in the 1970s. You know tales of women who are supposed to be the holiest of all women known to mankind engaged in all sorts of manners of perversions and debauchery behind closed walls. In the 1970s these movies were popular; Europe was notorious for producing a variety of these nun films, especially France, Italy, and Germany. When America explored the nun genre in the 1990s, what did they give us? They gave us Sister Act... SISTER ACT! And I wouldn't consider that a nunexploitation film, and that's because it isn't. But even if it was, I wouldn't want to see Whoopi Goldberg in anything sexual! Eck.
There are two genres of cinema I've always appreciated and loved: the women imprisonment genre, which I wrote a blog about two or three, maybe four, years ago? And then there's the Nunexploitation genre that I like but had such a difficult time finding something with intense moments that would get me to watch the movies over and over again. The problem is that Nunexploitation films are really boring, and a lot of the themes are painfully misleading too. The nunexploitation genre tries to do a lot of things to stand out from other exploitation genres. At times the films want to be taken seriously, but they don't take enough risk for my taste, and simply just flirting with the idea of nuns requires factors that will challenge your comfort zones; forget about morals for a while and just concentrate on telling a compelling story of eroticism in a convent that adopts hardcore pornographic elements.
The early 2000s tried to bring the nun genre back into the light, and there have been a few attempts afterwards to slightly revive the genre, except a lot of the modern nun films often leave out the bondage and explicit segments that were somewhat present in the 1970s. But most of those nunexploitation flicks were overly exaggerated by those who covered the topic. They would mention how these films had a lot of sex and perversion in them. I've watched quite a few Nunexploitation movies, and the majority of them had no sex, maybe a few nudity scenes, but even that was missing from a lot of them.The ones that did contain sexual scenes weren't much to write home about. Many scenes were typically softcore, while a few attempted to be more "hardcore" by depicting actual penetration and oral sex, although these were less common.
A helpless Nun is forced to give birth to an adult sized Doll. I finally figured out how to fully stretch out a character so that I could have a full grown individual crawl right out of their holes. I was thinking "I'm going to have some evil adult size doll crawl out of this Nun's pussy while she's making these horrifying painful noises. I really wanted this idea for something else but it worked better here due to it's extreme horror factor.
For the longest time I've been thinking about bringing this genre back myself because I have a clearer and much broader understanding of dark themes in fiction than a vast majority of artists who may indulge in dark themes. But the problem is that there is a tremendous lack of artwork and stories that explore such genres of art that involve lesbianism and futanarism (I made that one up) while also including darker undertones within them. If you were to look around the web, there are no themes that are even remotely close to the kind of madness I've conjured up over the years of being an artist.
There is also my strong sense of hatred for the modern world I'm struggling to cope with. I find the modern era less creative, with self-loathing people all around me (especially white ones) and so damn soulless, not to mention BORING. There's something about the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s that had all this passion. People weren't afraid to cross red lines back then either.The year 2009 proved they were still willing to cross the line with films like Orphan. But if you can go much further back than 2009, you'd find out that there were plenty of films that took on these different risks, and as a result of that. Entertainment was, well, entertaining!
Nunexploitation films, on the other hand, have tried to do things on the lighter side with a few "uncomfortable" moments. I always felt that the element of perversion wasn't strong, dark, or deep enough for my liking in these movies. I would sit there and watch them, and then I would say, "Damn, I could have done a better job than these guys! Give me the money, a few actresses who can act and be convincing enough to portray nuns forced into lesbianism, and some camera equipment, and I can produce some of the best nunexploitation cinema imaginable!" Of course there are a few that have explored Satanism elements as well to push the limits a little further.
At any rate I feel that nuns have always played such a fascinating role in films... It was about time someone took the Nunexploitation theme from the 70s and did something truly unfathomable with it. Another source that piqued my interest besides Nunexploitation movies was the French artist Noe and the author who wrote the story for Convent Of Hell, Ricardo Barreiro.I've praised and reread the comic so many times because it was always a major inspiration and one of the reasons why I wanted to do something just like it since no one else would have. It's an old story and was written in the 1980s. By today's standards it's still one of the very best erotic horror graphic novels you'll ever read about nuns.
No one has done anything like it ever since; it's sad that there are hundreds, thousands of different artists, and none of them have bothered to explore the nun genre. I had this same attitude about the women's imprisonment genre back in 2020 when I was working on three failed graphic novels I had plans to remake but never got around to.
Yesterday I came across a blog on the internet that showcased a few nun exploitation movies, but the list looked rather small, just like the women imprisonment exploitation genre that started out in the same era as the nun genre did. Although women's imprisonment concepts continued further into the 1980s, some of them even found their way into the modern age, such as the popular series Orange Is The New Black and, of course, Australia's very own Wentworth, which was based on an old series back in the 70s, so it was practically a remake.
There were always sexy closeup scene's like this where you thought something explicit and intense between two Nuns was going to happen, but it turns out just to be a bullshit cock tease scene. A scene leading to nowhere that disappoints you because the director is not creative but also an amateur that doesn't know how to take advantage of good moments like this...
If I were director, this scene would have involved the unwilling Nun resisting but the Nun aggressor would be too strong. She would have tore the top part of her dress and ripped it wide open to expose her breast, then she would take full advantage of her in the most roughest way possible assuring that this sister becomes a lesbian against her will...Just thinking about it made me aroused and excited. Nothing makes me more excited than women taking power away from another.
The nun exploitation genre made a slight comeback with the likes of horror films such as The Nun, that is, if you can call those nun exploitation movies anything other than horror films about nuns. If you want an even more thorough discussion about the genre, here is something you may find interesting to read about it from this website: https://offscreen.com/view/nunsploitation It contains a lot of information. Some of it is bullshit, like the left-wing garbage they mentioned, including the talk of feminism they brought up. Just pretend you didn't see any of that as you read through it.
I've seen a lot of these films and didn't experience any of that crap in them. Associating lesbianism with leftism by default is rather stupid to me, the same way female dominance in erotica is often labeled as part of feminism, which I also don't agree with. When I'm invested in lesbianism and female domination elements. I ignore all of the politics and pretend none of it exists because I don't believe the directors were focused on political agendas when making these movies back then. There can be a way where someone might mock or poke fun at political themes in their explicit work. I believe I've done it once or twice a long time ago.
The 1970s was a different time in cinema, and nobody was interested in political ideologies and agendas. Not even liberal filmmakers were pushing any of that stuff in movies at the time, at least not as aggressively as they were doing in the late 2000s. So when it boiled down to lesbianism actions in these nun films, it wasn't used as a propaganda/marketing ploy to change people's views about anything. It was there for pure eroticism reasons, to arouse your interest in this whole girl-on-girl concept within the nun genre of cinema.
The nunexploitation genre took on a lot of risk and challenges that I strongly approve of, but that was the hallmark of the early 70s and the 80s when films like Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977) explored a controversial concept where a teenage girl is sent to a convent of Satanists. There is a part in the film where she fully exposes her naked body. And there are a lot of themes in the film that will challenge your comfort zone. I personally don't believe in things like Satanism, even though I've used symbolism of the occult in my own work. I didn't do it because I believed in any stupid religions. I was just trying to find a way to make horror elements interesting, maybe add a bit of tension, but not because I believed in anything Satanic or worshiped a goat demon.
The movie, of course, like any controversial film, was banned in some parts of Europe. When I looked up the film on Wikipedia, it didn't say exactly why the film was banned. I'm sure there are some reasons for it on the web I didn't bother to look into. However, if we lived in a better world where filmmakers were respected rather than shunned and ridiculed for having an open mind to explore controversial themes that didn't involve any propaganda or mind fuckery. Well, filmmakers would have a lot more freedom than what they currently have. Instead we live in a world where everything offends people regardless of their political views or stances. We get endless movies that pander and send a stupid message that a majority of us who are just trying to be entertained don't give a dick about.
I didn't notice any sex scenes in the film involving the young girl in The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun, although I'm not sure, but I think there was a part in the film with the priest getting blown by her or something. There were some torture parts in the film involving the girl as well. I skipped most of it because halfway through I was just bored and had no interest in the film... Especially not enough to sit through the entire movie. It's been that way so far with all these Nunexploitation movies; they are just really boring and don't take advantage of elements that could make them stand out. I do like all the different nun clothing and variations of nun outfits I've encountered in this film; there are so many unique styles and different looks to choose from.
https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/423601/back-to-school-of-the-holy-beast-a-history-of-nunsploitation/
https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Nunsploitation
https://www.mondo-digital.com/nastyhabits
https://gatamagazine.com/articles/cinema/corruption-in-the-convent-gata-presents-the-15-best-films-to-feature-nuns
Each of those articles contains noteworthy information about nunexploitation films. There are some things in both articles I'm likely to talk about in this very blog since I'm already familiar with the concept and developed an interest in it back when I was reading true-life stories about real lesbianism in actual nun convents. It was that discovery of homosexuality between holy women that got me invested in nuns to begin with, because even though such a thing would piss off religious fanatics, which case it did, it only pulled me in closer to women having this attraction and desiring another woman in such concepts. Nunexploitation films were often censored or even banned in some parts of Europe for what they consider to be "blasphemy." I can't deny it... Lesbianism between real nuns is the sexiest goddamn thing on this earth.
It's because of nuns why I'm also slowly finding the hijab kink appealing recently, especially when they are wearing the full face coverings and all you can see are their eyes... If I were a priest, I would find it very hard to not masturbate to seeing two nuns engaged in lesbianism, and I'd probably be "wicked" enough to encourage lesbianism throughout the entire nunnery. Because of how my mind works these days, I would involve myself in the debauchery. I'm getting to the point in life where it's harder to achieve an erection from regular sexual material...
It has to be so intense and dangerously mind-inducing outrageous for me to even get into it anymore, and real nuns becoming homosexuals is one of those things that's starting to get me really turned on. I've had such a wild dream where I'd convert the entire nunnery to lesbianism. There would be no heterosexuals permitted on the premises unless I had plans to sic my diabolical lesbian nuns on them to convert the hetero women into lesbians as well; no escape from my powerful muff divers! You'd walk into that convent a heterosexual woman thinking you are protected because you are serious about your faith.
Then you'd end up leaving with thoughts of other women on your mind because you were coerced into homosexuality by a superior woman that dominates the entire convent, including their minds, their bodies, and their spirits. All of it belongs to the Mother Superior, not some fictional being in the sky. You are hers! The Mother Superior, she owns you! Your body is her body to command, and you will give it to her or else! To be dominated by a powerful woman who you are subservient to in charge of a sisterhood. That's why they are called "Mother Superiors," and that's what you'd be obligated to refer to them as. So I combine all of these powerful thoughts of nuns entwined, and it's just something I want to see happen in cinema on a level that will have me engaged in the material for the rest of my life.
I want the nunexploitation genre to make a return in an exciting new way. I want things to be done differently than they were in the past. By doing things with the films the 1970s failed to do in order to captivate me. I had the same sentiment about the women's imprisonment genre that had all this potential and could have been really amazing... Unfortunately the genre failed all because the directors were redundant, stupid, and boring and lacked a creative mindset to give me those female prison rape moments I wanted to see between two women. Well, the Nunexploitation, based on my experiences with it, did a lot of things I would have done much differently from those directors.
Last night I binge-watched several nunexploitation movies, hoping that they would prove to be better than what I could find among all the disappointing women's imprisonment films that failed to deliver on their promise of women-on-women sexual violence and misadventures where some heterosexual girl is coerced into acts of homosexuality against her will by predatory female inmates. A lot of those nunexploitation movies I watched yesterday—I ended up skipping several scenes because the stories were so painfully boring, and there wasn't much to keep me completely invested in them either, aside from a few mystery elements. And there were moments where certain things just didn't make much sense to me.
There were a few teasing moments and a scene in one of the movies where a nun is forced to lick the floor in front of her sisters until she reaches the mother superior and is expected to lick her shoes twice. I'm not sure why this happened, but I believe it was punishment because the nun was openly expressing her desire for another sister in the convent. When the superior found out about her lusting for another woman, she made her lick the floor to teach her a lesson about wanting to put her mouth on dirty places.
We need more of this in these kinds of films, but ultimately I wish the superior had lifted up her skirt and forced the young woman to eat her out in front of the other nuns to teach her that it's wrong to desire other women. Especially having those lustrous desires for a holy woman. So to teach her that lesson, she should have shoved her full face between her legs until she can't help BUT crave and want other women and is unable to give them up! Even if it means upsetting whatever GOD it is she believes in... I just like stuff like this A LOT, but it doesn't happen, and it infuriates me to no end that these directors don't do the sort of things I'd do with this genre. And so I feel convinced enough that I do want to partake in Nun themes more with my artwork; it's something I really should have done a long time ago. Rather than wasting my time on other concepts.
I thought the idea of the Nun forcing the young short haired girl to lick the floor for wanting pussy was great, but it was still missing something. The problem with this genre is that the producers were always playing it safe rather than offending religious people that take their faith seriously. Playing it safe with a genre like this ruins the possibility of it becoming something memorable. As a result of this drawback, this is why you never get any intense moments that are often present in scenes where a man decides to force himself on a woman without her consent. There are a lot of films that depict male-on-female sexual violence, but these scenes are EXTREMELY rare to non-existent involving two women who are using abusive methods against other women to get what they want from them sexually... In the case of nunexploitation movies, there are some torture moments and a lot of boring light bondage themes with girls getting tied up and whipped across their backends....
I can attest right now that I have a short attention span when stories begin to bore the hell out of me. I tried to be as patient as possible because these kinds of films require you to tolerate a lot of slow pacing before anything remotely interesting happens. Normally I would sit through 30 minutes or more before I start skipping through the film to see if anything between two women happens, and sadly to say, I've read countless articles that talk about acts of lesbianism and homosexuality in nun exploitation films, and yet I've barely seen any of it occur at all. There were, of course, a few scenes involving heterosexuality more so than acts of lesbianism. And I came across a scene in one of these films where fully naked sweaty men were giving each other massages in a steam room, which I immediately skipped the moment that scene appeared.
Just like the women-in-imprisonment genre, I only watch these exploitation films for the lesbianism themes if they are present.Let me go on record and say it wasn't pushed as much at all in the 70s, 80s, or even the 90s. So that's probably why there weren't too many lesbianism themes in any of these nun exploitation movies. At least when they were relevant in the 70s, which would be the only time I would have been okay with such themes being aggressively promoted in media.
Because it would have explored those lesbianism encounters a lot more often between nuns...And that means more Nun on Nun bonding moments could have been implemented into the films. I just don't think the filmmakers understood how important lesbianism was in the nunexploitation genre (same thing with the women imprisonment genre), and that's why they were unable to capitalize on the sort of ideas and concepts I could and would have come up with. There's a lot you can do with the genre, so when I was watching these films, I was wondering how any director could miss out on the opportunity to add in some incredibly intense lesbian moments. But instead all we got were a few downgraded bondage segments involving whippings of the exposed back. Europeans at the time just didn't get it; they didn't understand what made a great non-exploitation film worthy of the viewers' attention... They weren't prepared.
Again, the only way I would have backed lesbianism being forced and pushed in media at all is only IF it involved a heavy focus on eroticism and explicit encounters but nothing political-related. Today would still be a better time to bring the nunexploitation genre back into the light, but they need to do away with all the left-leaning politics that infest lesbianism themes. They need to avoid aiming their content at political agendas and just stick to the status quo of eroticism. Forget all that promoting a message nonsense. What's important is that the nun fetish is taken to new heights and does what they failed to do in the 70s and 80s. The best stories would involve heterosexual women resisting it, but acts of lesbianism are forced on them against their will. That's where sexually stimulating hardcore scenes could come into play, and I wish more themes involved this between women.
What needs to happen to make this genre really work today is that creators of the genre need to market the genre as nun exploitation just as they did in the 70s and keep the focus on heavier pornographic eroticism and taboo elements, which would help make the concept even better. Judging from the articles I've read up to this point, they've all claimed that nunexploitation films were judged as being pornographic, which is why a few of them were banned in some parts of Europe at the time until all that "sexual revolution" stuff happened, but if you actually sit through any of these movies. The explicit moments that are present really aren't that big of a deal, not even by 1970s standards. I found myself wondering, I can't believe people were offended by these scenes... There's nothing to be offended by because the sex and action aren't even that, well, sexual... It's just softcore boredom.
I've seen at least 9 or 12 of these films this month, and most of them barely had sex at all to even speak of. The few sex scenes that were present just looked a lot like softcore pornography, which is usually heavily tamed. There were a few that tried to go full frontal semi-hardcore with it by revealing genitalia, including showing off dicks that weren't hidden out of sight. Some showed cocks actually being sucked on and fully exposed pussy getting munched on, but it was all by 1970s standards of porn, but 1970s and 1980s porn kind of sucks compared to porn in the 90s... That's when they started to have creampie scenes, squirting, and a lot of harder fetishes that didn't exist in the 70s and 80s because it was all so damn tame and laid-back-type sex at the time with lots of annoying corny music playing in the background.
One of the Nun films I watched was called Malabimba (1979). It waited until the ass end of the movie before it finally showed a scene between a young woman who was 19 years old (her real age) but spent the majority of the film behaving and walking around as though she was naive and too young to understand anything at all. There were parts in the film where she appeared to have some sort of mental disability that made it seem as though she was immature and had stunted growth and didn't know any better; at least this is what I observed from the character and her behavior throughout the film.
At least further back when cinema was doing all this experimenting, most directors and producers were much more open to taking risks, and they did a lot of things back then that no one would be willing to do today. That explains why modern cinema is a goddamn borefest aside from the shitty annoying left-wing politics that get forced into a lot of it now to annoy everyone.
Claudia Wolf And Her Sisters Performing Orinoco Flow
(This scene was inspired by the song, but I prefer the original title which was Sail Away)
https://open.spotify.com/track/14EUcXXpqrC03Dzzdj8bGr
Anyway, near the end of the film, she sees her father having sex with another woman whom she had been secretly spying on, and as a result, she becomes very curious about sex, like she's going through puberty in her late teens or something. So we have this 19-year-old woman that is behaving like a confused and clueless juvenile that doesn't understand why she feels the way she does when she masturbates; she sleeps with her teddy and even has sex with it and all kinds of other behaviors to display her purity.
Then, right near the end of the film, she proceeds to seduce the nun, who was a 40+-year-old woman. It then becomes clear that the younger female is possessed by a demon that succeeds at convincing the nun to give in to her after she rejected her lesbian advances before. But the sex scene was so damn tame and boring that it did nothing but make me appreciate I didn't sit through the whole movie just to wait until the end of it in order to see a very boring lesbian scene that could have been much better if I had anything to do with it.
And that brings me to the conclusion that I gave thought to reinventing the nunexploitation genre, and I've done this to some extent with my Shadow Hill series, but I haven't done enough art to truly make it official. I like to experiment with themes that fascinate me, and the Nun genre could have been so much better than it was if the producers took it seriously. I felt that they wanted to do it as a way to challenge the norm, to see what the religious fanatics would think... And of course they hated this stuff so much that it was the Catholic Church itself that wanted to have it all banned, outlawed, and censored... Nuns are a lot like nurses; both have incredible potential in fictional eroticism stories... I've experimented with both, and so far I love the Nun idea much better.
