Lhe word “sex tape” has made inroads into the news where we least expected it. In the Senate. Gérard Larcher, the president of the Upper House of Parliament, has just contacted the public prosecutor after the publication of an article from Chained duck, where it is revealed that dismissal proceedings are underway against a doctor from the High Assembly who brought to the attention of his management the existence of an intimate video involving an (unnamed) senator. Or a “sex tape”. As one can easily imagine, this term, linked to new technologies, at least to the democratization of cameras, made its appearance late in The world. We had to wait until October 24, 2011 for Anglicism to appear in the evening daily.
In an article entitled ““Guignols”, the old thing », Jean-Baptiste de Montvalon notes that as they prepare to cover their fourth presidential campaign, the Canal+ puppets no longer arouse as much public interest as in the past. And the journalist mentions the DVD edition of selected pieces of the show which is no longer as successful: “The latest DVD sold, La Sextape des Guignols (DSK in leopard bathrobe, cigar in hand, on the cover) sometimes makes you smile, more rarely laugh. » We are after the famous DSK and Sofitel affair in New York. The Guignols go to the scene of the scandal, for what would undoubtedly have been the most famous “sex tape” in history, causing the possible candidate for the presidential election to be sidelined, but this promise is no longer of interest person. At least, if it is staged with the famous puppets.
In January 2014, in an article titled “How do we make love in the cinema?” », Thomas Sotinel describes how “in thirteen years, the status of erotic and pornographic imagery has profoundly changed. It is now within reach of a computer or mobile phone in all its variety, involving sex professionals, amateurs or celebrities (“sex tapes”, distributed without the knowledge or willingly of the interested parties). » And to quote “the young Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Indiana Jones), who plays one of the main male roles in Nymph ()maniac, [et qui] bragged about having sent a “sex tape” to Lars von Trier to convince him of his ability to play the character..
Football soap opera
On November 7, 2015, the “sex tape” reappeared in the newspaper, as part of a pitiful story which would turn into an endless soap opera. With an investigation entitled “Karim and the “parasites””, Rémi Dupré reports the indictment of Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema in a case of blackmail using the “sex tape”, a video in which his teammate France Mathieu Valbuena would be the protagonist and, now, the victim. Didier Deschamps, the French coach, gave up summoning the two players after the Blues scorer admitted to having intervened as an intermediary between the blackmailers and Mathieu Valbuena.
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