Let's Get Physical

Despite a title that couldn't help but make me think of Olivia Newton-John, I loved this movie. The best thing about it was it was sex-positive and showed a woman who was fiercely independent and in control of her own destiny freely and unashamedly taking up a career in sex work and doing it as op-enly and proudly as the law allowed. I even liked the fact that welters Margaret Froley and Kelly Fullerton raised the question of whether prostitution should be illegal at all. Given that most Lifetime depictions of prostitution show the girls (and sometimes guys) involved in it as human-trafficking victims or people tricked into it by abusive, exploitative pimps masquerading as boyfriends (a pattern all too common in real life as well), it's nice to see a film that presents sex work as a reasonable choice for a liberated woman. I also loved 41-year-old Jenna Dewan's performance as Sadie; at a time in life when most women are considered past their prime physically, her overall sexiness and clear comfort with her body make her believable as a woman whom some men would freely and happily pay to have sex with her.