‘IMPRISONMENT ISN’T A BIT OF FROTHY FUN’

Sally Howard is a 43-year-old journalist and author of

The Kama Sutra Diaries. She lives in London with her husband,

Tim, 39, and four-year-old son, Leo. I’m not a prude. I’ve written a book about sex and my husband and I have used lockdown to bring some sauce into our decade-long relationship: wrists lightly knotted against the bedhead with scarves; blindfolds and feathers; sexy truth or dare. So, on paper I might have liked a steamy movie that explores the kinky term ‘sub/dom’ (subordination/ domination) – the erotic relationship that comes from who’s in power, who wields the tickling feather, so to speak, in bed.

‘IT’S NOT THE MESSAGE WE WANT’

Sadly, I couldn’t like 365 DNI. Over 90 clunky minutes, hunky Massimo pouts and smoulders as female lead Laura sulks and simpers through a series of questionable plot devices.

Women as objects, date-rape drugs as a means to an end, imprisonment as a bit of frothy fun: this is not the message you’d want your teenage daughter to take away about malefemale relationships.

Male porn

But it was the fellatio that clinched it for me. There’s a lot of it, and it’s portrayed as orgasmic for every woman performing the act (through her heavily lip-glossed lips).

Which woman get her rocks off from this alone? A woman in malepoint-of-view porn, that’s who.

I get that we’re looking for a bit of sexy escapism in our lockdown lives. But there are plenty of sexy movies that don’t have abusive undercurrents or glamorise male dominance.

So watch one of those instead, then turn down the lights and get those feathers out.