[Politics of Intimacy: Bonnie 1]

This is raw footage shot for Julie Gustafson's documentary, "The Politics of Intimacy." In this seminal feminist video, ten women address the camera and seemingly each other in a wide-ranging exploration of such previously taboo subjects as women’s sexuality, power, and fears about intimacy. This interview is with Bonnie Hankowitz. Originally shot in 1/2" B & W video.

00:21Copy video clip URL Title card reads “ST. PATRICK’S DAY NEW YORK CITY 1972” 

00:27Copy video clip URL Being overstimulated  

01:50Copy video clip URL Communicating sexual desires with sexual partners  

03:25Copy video clip URL The perceived view of women orgasms by men and if they deem it important that their female sexual partners have orgasms   

04:12Copy video clip URL The pressures to orgasm and faking climaxes  

5:10Copy video clip URL Insecurities of showing pleasure during intercourse  

08:07Copy video clip URL Fears around sexuality and being a nymphomaniac 

09:30Copy video clip URL Bonnie shares experiences traveling across country and becoming in touch with self which made her feeling of inadequacy resolve itself 

09:49Copy video clip URL Positive sexual experience changing outlook on sex  

10:58Copy video clip URL Feelings of competitiveness with other women and feeling threatened by them.  

12:00Copy video clip URL Using sexuality and relationships with men to feel superior to other women   

12:40Copy video clip URL Feeling threatened by women due to being sexuality attractive to them and the perverted feelings surrounding it 

13:03Copy video clip URL Feeling more whole in sexual experiences with other women approached to sexual experiences with men  

13:56Copy video clip URL Less pressure about having orgasms when engaged in sexual experiences with women   

15:06Copy video clip URL Physical attraction to other women subsiding after sense of competitiveness in female friendships was resolved 

16:20Copy video clip URL Frigidity, pressures to have an orgasm when having intercourse with men  

17:30Copy video clip URL Losing virginity to gain control to be vindictive to father’s influence    

18:00Copy video clip URL Female/male sexual relationship dynamics  

20:00Copy video clip URL Guilt feelings about sex  

21:43Copy video clip URL Turing men on and the pressures to do so  

23:30Copy video clip URL Knowing what other women like  

24:00Copy video clip URL Communicating what your sexual needs  

24:21Copy video clip URL Cut several still images of a man 

27:18Copy video clip URL Video ends.