SXSW ‘08 | Sex Positive

"Sex Positive" producer David Oliver Cohen, director/producer/editor Daryl Wein and subject Richard Berkowitz after a busy world premiere screening of their doc in Austin Saturday afternoon. The film follows the story of Berkowitz, a controversial gay S&M hustler who turned into an AIDS activist on the forefront of promoting safe sex and questioning what he believes was an oversimplification of the disease by science. He also sees current safe sex campaigns as ineffective. "People who took over sex campaigns in the late '80s were sex workers and porn stars that made their campaigns appealing to sluts," said Berkowitz. "And now those campaigns are taken over by bureaucrats and people who are worried about losing their funding."