John Waters Hates on Hetero Porn

In an interview with BBC Radio 3 before his appearance November 8 at the Homotopia Festival in Liverpool, American movie director John Waters was asked about the extremes of entertainment today as opposed to when he was making his most famous, or infamous, movies, including Pink Flamingos (1972) Not mincing his words (as if he ever does), Waters made no bones about his issues with porn, but not just any porn. As far as Waters is concerned, heterosexual porn is the problem.

"I agree that some porn is obscene today," he told the BBC. "Someone said, 'It's not making love, it's making hate'. Especially heterosexual porn. I think in the gay porn you can tell they're both in on it. In some of the hetero porn [with] the [treatment of] women you cannot tell."

But as eager as the BBC may have been to hear an American actually side with the U.K. plan to proscribe access to porn that allegedly glorifies the abuse of women, Waters was quick to note that despite his reservations about "obscene" content, "that is the limits of free speech we have to put up with."