Lena Dunham: Conservative on Sex and Porn?

Here’s a perfectly 2020s moment at the movies: A confused young woman who is out to prove something or other seeks out a total stranger online in order to be sexually degraded, but makes sure to ask whether he’s been tested. Tested? He assures her that he doesn’t have any STDs and also promises to wear a facial mask.

To a certain segment of the younger population, sex with someone you haven’t so much as had a conversation with is less of a worry than being breathed on. Lena Dunham knows this cohort well and once again examines it with a forensic eye in her new film Sharp Stick, which just debuted at this year’s (virtual) Sundance Film Festival.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Here’s a perfectly 2020s moment at the movies: A confused young woman who is out to prove something or other seeks out a total stranger online in order to be sexually degraded, but makes sure to ask whether he’s been tested. Tested? He assures her that he doesn’t have any STDs and also promises to wear a facial mask.

To a certain segment of the younger population, sex with someone you haven’t so much as had a conversation with is less of a worry than being breathed on. Lena Dunham knows this cohort well and once again examines it with a forensic eye in her new film Sharp Stick, which just debuted at this year’s (virtual) Sundance Film Festival.