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" \nWhat if humming sex machines and leather riding crops weren&amp;#039;t just the stuff of Christian Grey&amp;#039;s red room fantasies, but\u2014no big deal\u2014just a part of your day job? Meet Christina Voros. She&amp;#039;s not a porn starlet, but the director of Kink, a new documentary produced by her frequent collaborator James Franco about bondage porn giant Kink.com and its castle headquarters in San Francisco. Dubbed the Armory, it&amp;#039;s a place where you&amp;#039;ll find whips and chains behind closed doors, as well as Sunday brunches and eye-popping public tours. &amp;quot;James shot a film, About Cherry, there and he said, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;This place is amazing and I can&amp;#039;t believe it exists and it&amp;#039;s bizarre and fascinating,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Christina told Cosmopolitan.com. &amp;quot;My first instinct was, &amp;#039;I don&amp;#039;t know if I want to shoot a documentary in a porn dungeon a month before Christmas.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; That was a year ago. Now Christina and James are taking Kink to premiere at next month&amp;#039;s Sundance Film Festival. What changed her mind about the real-life look at Fifty Shades of Grey sex? &amp;quot;I was carrying some baggage about porn. I had a boyfriend who took a job editing soft-core fetish videos...and I lost my mind! It was like, &amp;#039;Not on my Final Cut Pro!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Christina said. &amp;quot;But I spent three days talking to (porn) directors male and female. I found them very relatable, like Princess Donna (porn actress/director), who was a gender studies/photographer double major at NYU. They were people that I would hang out with\u2014smart, funny, driven. I became really into the question of, what drives someone to make this their career?&amp;quot;  Camera in hand, Kink led Christina into a dank world of submission, spanking, and on-camera interviews with subjects who &amp;quot;happened to be naked and tied up and hanging upside down.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nothing is taboo. People are walking around naked or going into the bathroom to get an enema,&amp;quot; she recalled. &amp;quot;That was actually refreshing. Apart from eating and sleeping, sex is one of the only things that everyone on the planet does, and yet it&amp;#039;s still edgy to talk about it.&amp;quot; Perhaps more shocking, Christina says, was her realization that behind-the-scenes, at least at Kink, porn wasn&amp;#039;t as scary as it seems. She reports surprise at seeing female directors and observing a casting process in which performers would specify limits like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m okay with you pulling my hair, but you can&amp;#039;t slap my face. You can call me names but you can&amp;#039;t tie my hands behind my back.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The biggest misconception about BDSM is the notion that the dominant is in control. The submissive is the person setting their limits and guidelines. They have a safe word even if their fantasy is that they&amp;#039;re a slave,&amp;quot; Christina said. &amp;quot;But that information is intentionally withheld when you see the porn. If you knew that the submissive has the keys to get out of this, it sort of takes away from the fantasy.&amp;quot; Kink will precede the big-screen 50 Shades of Grey, but, like it or not, Christina predicts bondage in the bedroom is a topic that will continue to tie up pop culture.  &amp;quot;That that limit of what is safe and what is porn is a continuum and the line keeps getting pushed further and further,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;You can argue it&amp;#039;s a good thing, you can argue it&amp;#039;s a bad thing\u2014it&amp;#039;s happening.&amp;quot; For more Michelle, follow her on Twitter @michelleruiz "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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