Les mauvaises rencontres

In pornography, there seemingly is no such thing as rape: it existed in Adult Cinema from the '70s, but due to censorship a rape scene in current porn is fudged by having the women implicitly consent and more significantly "enjoy" the forced sex.

Among the earliest Marc Dorcel releases, this made-for-video feature directed by Marc himself features two rape scenes, both of which have the ladies initially fighting against the attacker but ultimately going orgasmic and enthusiastically participating in the XXX action. The movie takes an amoral stance, essentially endorcing the cads' actions.

Screenplay, uncredited, defies audience expectations, perhaps merely to pander to a male audience. Setting is a bar where a married couple (Helene Shirley and Richard Allan) chat while the "bad guy" Gabriel Pontello plays on an "Incredible Hulk" pinball machine nearby (yes, back in 1980 Marvel was already popular in France).

He slips a note to the wife, and subsequently when she's feeling neglected by her husband, she phones Pontello and invites him to visit her. Upon arrival he immediately assaults her and has sex with her. As Pontello is smoking a cigar post-sex, the husband returns early and catches them nude on the couch, and he hits his wife in anger.

Ingenious plot twist has Pontello hurriedly dressing to flee but simultaneously striking up a conversation with the hubby about how bad women behave, and the duo leave together to hang out on the town, leaving wifey helpless.

They go back to the "Hulk" bar and quickly chat up a pair of beautiful blondes: big-name stars (Dominique Saint Claire and Marilyn Jess). But the women turn them down flat, cuing the men to call them lesbians and get angry.

Upshot, after we see a sensual lesbian love scene for the women, the two men break into their apartment and violently rape the girls, who after fighting back step completely out of character and actively help the men achieve multiple ejaculations. Short movie (an hour long) ends after the last cum shot.

I suppose Dorcel and his audience wrote this one off as standard porn, but its embracing of violence against women is indefensible. Apparently the expression "Non veut dire non" never caught on in France.