BONDING
or: Penises Are Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Directed by Wash Rogers
Sound by Ralph Garrett
Edited by Brian Greer
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Year of Production: 2003
Cast: Rob Bennett (#1), Kenneth Stephens (#2), Sarah Hinkle (Girl)

Words. The only controversy surrounding this film has to do with words. The reason this movie was banned was because of words. Words used as dialogue between two males. Dialogue that was not scripted. Dialogue that is profane, frank, explicit, brutal and disturbing. Dialogue that is used everyday in real life in similar situations. Art is often censored for a variety of reasons: violence, nudity, sex, rape, racism, religious themes, drug use...this film contains none of those. Just words.

Some men are blatantly misogynistic. Their sexist attitudes toward women reveal many things about their own sexuality. Attitudes formed by mass media and consumerism in an attempt to show their "dominance" as men in society. That is what "Bonding" is about. Two guys spying on a girl, engaging in mental masturbation, talking about what they would like to do to her. Or maybe, what they really wish to be doing to each other. They talk and talk and talk until their words become meaningless and incoherent. These boys are repulsive human beings. They are also a dime a dozen at any college campus.

This is reality...deal with it.