{"id":32614,"date":"2015-02-17T04:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=32614"},"modified":"2015-02-17T04:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:18:59","slug":"sacred-sperm-ori-gruder-2014-isreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=32614","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Sperm (Ori Gruder, 2014): Isreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Lia Durham. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sbiff.org\/schedule\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sacred-Sperm-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Ori Gruder, Sacred Sperm is a documentary exploring the sin of masturbation in the Orthodox Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span>exually pure<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span>tonement can not be given for wasting sperm<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span>ontest episode of Seinfeld about masturbation inspired the documentary<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>R<\/strong><\/span>abbi approved film<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span>ducation for his Hasidic son about sex<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>D<\/strong><\/span>irect cinema style<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span>ecular Jewish lifestyle led by filmmaker until he was thirty<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>P<\/strong><\/span>raying while rolling around naked in snow to repent for past sins<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span>xplains that\u00a0Orthodox men can not touch their penises while going to the bathroom<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>R<\/strong><\/span>elaxation exercises to help deal with sexual urges<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>M<\/strong><\/span>arriage is the only time to desire a woman, that woman being your wife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Lia Durham. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015. Directed by Ori Gruder, Sacred Sperm is a documentary exploring the sin of masturbation in the Orthodox Jewish community. Sexually pure Atonement can not be given for wasting sperm Contest episode of Seinfeld about masturbation inspired the documentary Rabbi approved film Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}