As Christmas descends upon us like an angry vulture my job has become increasingly more a challenge of finding product to sell rather than selling anything. They need to stock the floor and entice harried holiday shoppers with scuffed copies of “Equilibrium” at $4.99 a pop and while my own efforts has deposited a fair amount of cash into the coffers the season demands baubles to be readily available. I have found myself trying to keep busy with an odd assortment of DVDs from foreign lands and other regions which sell better when tourists come from overseas in the summer.

Among versions of Fletch for the European market and Trauma dubbed into Italian (funny as it’s a Dario Argento movie and his daughter Asia stars– they’re Italian) was a colorful little DVD called Saekjeuk Shigong, or Sex is Zero. It looks to be the Korean equivalent of Meatballs or American Pie, a sex-comedy of mishaps and humiliation all in the name of getting laid. A curiosity, particularly as the more reserved Korean film market tends to keep girls covered and this genre is about cheap laughs padded with T&A. Looking the movie up on IMDB one of the user added keywords caught my eye.

What the fuck is “Frotteurism“? Turns out this is the official term for people who get gratification by rubbing their privates on other people against their will, usually using crowded places to cover their actions. Psychologists lump frotteurism in with other paraphilia such as exhibitionism or voyeurism– deviant mental disorders where people have mistaken notions as to the connection between their actions and the person they’re acting upon. Groping is the layman’s term, although while groping can be approved by both parties frotteurism relies on a victim for the perpetrator so they can believe this illicit contact is actually some deeper level connection tacitly desired. (more…)