A couple of female journalists - one of whom is a stripper fed up with the business - conduct a series of interviews with various figures along the numerous rungs of the smut ladder. Magazine editors, male and female porn actors, peep show performers, club owners, etc. Their goal is to blow the lid off and expose the biz as immoral and, especially, dehumanizing toward women. Yeah, that old noise...
The whole time you're only getting half the story, along with a "strippers are people too" incentive and all kinds of feminist outrage and ignorant bull dyke Nazi-babbling. At one point, one of the dumb broads goes into an BDSM porn booth and comes out all disgusted and disturbed after watching a portion of a video called "Beat the Bitch" and asks the owner if there are any films that show people "making love". Then he offers her some much more tamed down porn and she's STILL bitching about the woman looking like she's being hurt! After that the women take to the streets of San Francisco and start 'soap-boxing' in front of a strip club about the objectification of women, while carefully editing around any guy that happens to come up to sensibly and level-headedly dispute their contention.
So, yeah. "Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography" barely explores anything other than dense bra-burners thinking that pornography is the root of all evil and that men - a.k.a. the "sole consumers", according these dingbats - are just sick in the head and need some unsexy feminist to come along and change them. In that regard, I'd say this film is certainly worth seeing just because it's so ridiculous, plus they just so happen to throw a LOT of "explicit" material into it so the movie ironically ends up being more pornographic than not. Good job, ladies!
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