At the time she made this film, Anne Severson referred to it as "the cunt movie" in an attempt to reclaim "cunt" as a power word for women, though she eventually gave up on the idea.
Casual nudity was so common at the San Francisco Art Institute (at parties and informal gatherings) during the early 1970s that Severson's later students were far more shocked by this film than her original ones were.
The title is derived from the second chakra (bodily energy points in yoga philosophy), commonly known at the time as the "Big Chakra," which is located just beneath the skin of the perineum, between the vagina and anus, so the vagina, the focus of the film, was "near" to it.