Friday’s debut of “No Hard Feelings,” a sex work romcom that doesn’t want to admit to its own subgenre, is very much of our era.
Noah Berlatsky Noah BerlatskyThe Jennifer Lawrence vehicle from Sony Pictures revolves around a sex worker who, like the film, doesn’t want to admit what she’s doing.
In sex worker romcoms, you’re supposed to be scandalized at the sordidness — but in a fun way.
Anti-sex and anti-porn advocates have put a lot of effort into (falsely) conflating sex work and sex trafficking.
Every film, sex worker romcom or otherwise, doesn’t have to be enthusiastically political, or, for that matter, sexual.
Persons:
Noah Berlatsky, we’re, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Jennifer Lawrence, Maddie, Lawrence, Uber, Laird, Matthew Broderick, Allison, Laura Benanti, Percy, Andrew Barth Feldman, ” Percy, romcoms, Billy Wilder’s “ Irma La Douce, Ron Howard’s, Vivian Ward, Julia Roberts, Edward Lewis, Richard Gere, Stock, Pixie “, Richard Gere’s Edward isn’t, Rebecca De Mornay’s Lana isn’t, revel, ”, you’re, Rebecca de Mornay, Lana, she’s, Irma La Douce, Barbara Stanwyck, Leo Grande ”, Nancy, Emma Thompson, Leo Grande, Daryl McCormack
Organizations:
CNN, Sony Pictures, Pictorial Press, Library, Twitter
Locations:
Chicago, Montauk , New York