Tous les mêmes ?

“We commonly hear women complaining : ‘âmen don’t like and don’t know how to express their feelings…’ So how do you expect men to even begin talking about what’s ticking over in their minds? How do you say what it’s like being a man today, anyway? Nowadays, it seems sex entirely determines his male identity, at a period in time when the assertion of women’s rights, unemployment, the ascent of intellectual over physical activity, the absence of war (in our country) destroys any justification of male superiority or domination over women. Men must therefore re-explore their specificity, above all their particular way of talking about themselves in their own words. Otherwise, they will never be able to express basic feelings. Thus, the film lets seven men talk about their relationship with their sex. These are the hesitant first steps in the appropriation of our crude, tense intimate feelings leading to the desire to share them. Because ‘if women get to sexuality through intimacy, men become intimate through sexuality.’ (Guy Corneau).” (Michel Reilhac)