Mädchen die sich (selbst) bedienen (1975) Poster

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3/10
Tedious '70s Euro soft core - though with some hot women
Groverdox12 September 2019
A guy goes into one of those booths where you pay to watch a porno and whack off. I guess that's the framing story, though I don't see how it's necessary.

We then see a group of guys bowling. One is big and kind of ugly, with a prominent uni brow and a leonine head. A voluptuous woman is bowling with them, scantily clad, and when she bends over to bowl her skirt rides up, showing her butt. She goes into some kind of locker room and gets naked, but leaves her shoes on, and reclines on a bench.

The ugly guy goes in the locker room and drops trou. "Are you first?" the woman asks. Apparently she's some kind of prostitute who also bowls. The ugly guy wears weird patterned underpants. He starts really dirty talking her, like this is a Max Hardcore video, rather than soft porn. It's quite shocking. The girl doesn't seem put off by it. He leaves and the girl sits like a fat man on the toilet, legs spread, and uses a piece of fabric on the bench next to her to rub her genitals.

Um, is this supposed to be erotic? It's depressing, like it's trying to show us the ghastly reality of life as a sex worker. But then the next guy goes in and has sex with her, and she seems to enjoy it more, commenting that this guy's "c*ck" is bigger than the last guy's. He comes early and she gets a little upset with him. She tells him to use the piece of material she used to clean her vagina with to wipe his penis, but to "leave her a dry spot". Again, not particularly erotic, is it?

The third sex scene with another bowler is shot from a top-down view and looks kind of unrealistic. You can see the beautiful woman's naked body, and a guy thrusting away between her legs, but he looks too far away to actually be penetrating her.

The fourth guy kneels in front of the woman and gives her cunnilingus. He apparently doesn't mind that she just had sex with three of his buddies, none of whom used condoms. How's that cream-pie taste, bro? He even makes slurping noises and remarks, "It was delicious". What a pervert.

And then we go back to the guy in the booth, so I guess that's the end of that segment. The girl in it was extraordinarily sexy, but it was grimy and depressing.

The guy in the booth makes an asinine, negligible comment about how he's not really interested in porno flicks and just "wants to know how they're made". You're already in the booth, bro. It's too late for excuses.

Then we're off into the next segment. A man is lying on an operating table surrounded by doctors, in a room that nobody could believe is located inside a hospital. I guess they went all out on costumes and props and couldn't afford a decent set.

A nurse on the soundtrack comments on the man on the gurney, saying he'll "never be a man like the others", and how she's "heard of circumcision, but this is ridiculous". She says she'll "do her best to comfort him tonight".

Sure enough, we cut to the hospital room where he's convalescing after the operation - whatever it was - and the nurse sneaks in, stripping off her gown and getting naked while the man sleeps. Like the girl in the previous segment, she is voluptuous and sexy.

On the English dub, she has a weird southern drawl. The man in bed, despite recovering from an operation, wakes up and runs his hand over the nurse's naked body. He fingers her while she plays with her breasts and breathes heavily, while an inexplicable harpsichord soundtrack plays.

She climbs on top of him, lowering her groin over his face so that he can eat her out - apparently not fearing for his life due to the suffocation risk.

And then that's the end? Wha? We didn't even find out what his operation was supposed to be. I guess the point is that, whereas he can't have sex normally, he can still give head. Phew!

After a quick - and not to mention, pointless - cutback to the guy in the booth, the next segment starts with a shot depicting a fully naked man lying on his back in a sauna. With his long moustache and lank hair, he looks like Lemmy from Motorhead. This is the first full frontal male nudity in the movie.

A naked woman comes into the sauna, and the man is alarmed to see her and covers up. He calms down pretty quickly though, when she starts talking about sex and masturbating. "I must have some c*ck," she says. The man rolls over. "Are you faggot?" she asks him. "Is your c*ck broken?" "My pussy needs some juice," she explains, getting up and leaving. "I should have been a dyke, you sh*t."

But then she comes back and finds he has an erection, pitching the towel he has thankfully draped across his groin. Sitting on the seat above him, the woman teases him with her feet, and we get shots of her spread vagina, showing that as usual soft porn from Europe is harder than hard porn from the US.

The scene changes to sculptor's studio. A picture of a black woman on the wall has a dildo sticking out from between her breasts. The woman strips the man, and a statue in the way prevents us from seeing his junk. The woman's stream of obscenities - there's that dirty talk again - is broken when we are made to believe she is giving him a blowjob. Then he poses naked for her, apparently having lost his erection in seconds.

The woman starts marking a sculpture of an erection, despite the fact that her model doesn't have one.

Finally they have sex, in one long unbroken take, which just looks like the guy pawing the woman's breast while she gets angry about it. There's little attempt to simulate penetration.

Segment over, so we go back to the nudie booth. We are apparently witnessing the corruption of the guy in it. His voice over becomes increasingly perverted, remarking that an aeroplane "looks like a big c*ck with two wings".

This plane is the setting for the next segment. A young man with long blonde hair looks through the window and calls a stewardess over, seducing her. The other people on the plane - of which there aren't many - don't seem to realise. The stewardess tells the man to meet her in the bathroom, where she goes and strips naked. He follows.

Their sex scene is interrupted by pointless shots of the plane flying through the air.

And that's over. Pretty tedious.

Back int he nudie booth, the guy is watching another guy watch an ancient silent pornoraphic cartoon, featuring a cartoon man with a huge phallus, and dogs and snakes mating. He walks along with his huge penis dragging along the ground and encounters a naked, masturbating woman. Another guy is shown having sex with a donkey, and the first guy confronts him. They duel with their penises.

Was the point of showing this execrable cartoon to make the rest of the movie seem well made by comparison?

While the idiot watches the stupid cartoon, a beautiful woman comes into the room next door, gets naked and masturbates. Hearing her sounds of pleasure, the guy goes to a spyhole in the wall and watches. We get a closeup of the woman's vagina as she masturbates, again testing the limits of "soft core".

Apparently the spyhole works both ways. The guy goes back to his ancient porno and the woman spies on him doing it. Predictably, she joins him, and they have sex... or at least she lies back while he puts his hand on her breasts, like the two did in the plane. There's not much in it for either of them, is there?

"Wow, he's really f*cking the sh*t out of that c*nt!" remarks the guy in the nudie booth. His strongly accented English is funny.

In the next segment, a housewife listens to someone playing violin and strips off her clothes, masturbating in front of a bedroom mirror.

She doesn't know that the violinist is actually kind of ugly! The movie cuts to him occasionally. The end.

The next segment shows a man trying to sleep while his neighbours are having loud sex. The woman, particularly, is vocal, sounding like a train whistle. She appears to be a person of colour, the first non-white in the film yet.

The guy trying to sleep comes out with a stream of obscenities: "I'd like to f*ck her while he sucks my ass!"

These are perhaps the most graphic sex scenes yet. It looks like they're actually doing it, instead of just pretending.

The next day, the guy who was trying to sleep rolls around on his bed, pretending to have sex, recording the noises he makes. He imitates the woman and the man. Perhaps to get revenge, he plays this recording so that they can hear it, but of course it just turns them on more. The man buries his face in the girl's hairy bush while the ridiculous sound effects play. After they have sex, the woman, intrigued by the sound effects, crawls into the vengeful insomniac's bed, but he climaxes almost immediately, so she goes back to the other guy, and the insomniac goes back to not being able to sleep.

"Such a sad end for the poor guy," says the guy in the nudie booth, as he leaves the sex shop. He looks at some vibrators through the shop window and we get some scenes of some of the women from the prior segments masturbating with them.

And then the movie's over. I can't say I really enjoyed it, or recommend it. It was mostly pretty boring. For campy throwback '70s softcore, I recommend the Schoolgirl Report movies instead. They're out of this world.
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7/10
Sisters are Doing It for Themselves
Nodriesrespect21 February 2008
One of several MÄDCHEN titles to come out of Erwin C. Dietrich's Swiss soft porn factory Elite Film throughout the '70s (along with the likes of ...DIE NACH LIEBE SCHREIEN, AM WEGE LIEGEN, SICH HOCHARBEITEN, etc.), SELF SERVICE GIRLS was a virtual prototype for the kind of cinema that would receive little respect while simultaneously packing theaters to capacity. Prior to video and DVD, skin flicks were doing major business at cinemas worldwide. As there were still many countries that would not permit public exhibition of hardcore material at the time, the market for simulated sex features was positively huge. The French and Italian purveyors thereof had a tendency to cover up their motives with mock cultural and artistic alibis. Dietrich had no such qualms admitting he was in the money-making business, simply supplying what audiences demanded : plenty of attractive unwrapped starlets in healthy humorous scenarios. Without blowing his own horn, the man also delivered some of the most lavish production values within the genre at that stage. Regular Elite contributors, the father and son team of Walter and Peter Baumgartner were on hand for the movie's amazingly eclectic soundtrack and its bright and colorful camera work respectively.

The set-up is simple but cute. A male visitor to a sex shop keeps putting coins in a slot machine showing stag movies, ranting about how he's not interested in pornography at all but just in the way these movies are made (an excuse certain genre scribes apply to this very day...) while getting more turned on, not to mention hilariously foul-mouthed, with each successive segment. The seven sexy stories are largely played for laughs. Funniest of these has an alarmingly aggressive sculptress (stunning blonde Marianne Dupont, who supported the incredible Marie Forsa in Joe Sarno's spectacularly underrated BABY LOVE) recruiting a potential – and potent – male model in the sauna. When she finally gets him home and into a typically Greek athletic pose, she only proves interested in making a clay replica of his privates, even though she's exaggerating on the size issue ! An even more elaborate scenario has a single guy avenging himself on his lusty neighbors by recording a full tape of sex noises – with him taking both parts and you will just have to witness this gob-smacking sequence to be able to believe it – to play when they are finally ready to get some sleep. His plan backfires, sort of, when the exotic next door lady (ravishing Martina Domingo from Jess Franco's DOWNTOWN) is aroused rather than annoyed by this aural disturbance and creeps into his apartment while her husband's asleep and snoring.

For contrast, there are a few stories that attempt a slightly more poignant tone. One has an unfortunate hospital patient, who has somehow lost the use of his genitals (about which there's a particularly chilling voice over comment for all of us men), comforted by piping hot nurse Christa Free, star of Dietrich's little-seen TEUFEL IN MISS JONAS (a soft porn remake of Gerard Damiano's Porno Chic landmark DEVIL IN MISS JONES), who possesses one of the finest female forms ever displayed in dirty movies. The lusciously lit view of her riding the bedridden boy's face is a sight not easily forgotten ! The other tale contains the film's only hardcore footage apart from several borderline crotch-rubbing shots, courtesy of an ancient black & white loop - involving a rather fearsome contraption - and an extensive portion of the notorious BURIED TREASURE cartoon also featured in Alex De Renzy's HISTORY OF THE BLUE MOVIE. A lonely porno collector, played by handsome Eric Falk (Lina Romay's studly chauffeur in Dietrich's deliciously debauched ROLLS ROYCE BABY), spies through a hole in the wall on his pretty next door neighbor Esther Studer (a co-star in several Franco films including JACK THE RIPPER and LOVE LETTERS OF A Portuguese NUN) pleasuring herself - boy, does this flick ever make good on its title ! - but is too shy to talk to her, until she takes the lead by wandering buck naked into his apartment. Both sequences are far more leisurely paced than the comedic skits and make a mostly successful attempt at genuine eroticism.

Like the very popular German SCHOOLGIRL REPORT series, which lasted throughout the '70s, this cute carnal concoction offers a blend of buffoonery and bathos. Fortunately though, it eschews the former's heavy-handed moralizing which made it easy for middle class Kraut couples to enjoy a fair share of cinematic skin without the stigma of belonging to the "Dirty Mac" brigade. Hypocrisy is indeed of all ages but Dietrich and his gang would have none of it, presenting the viewer right off with his unflattering mirror image in the connecting character of the client, poking fun at bourgeois double standards.
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8/10
Within Temptation,
morrison-dylan-fan1 February 2015
Warning: Spoilers
April 2013:

Taking a look at a website about the German Sex Comedy genre,I read up an outline for what sounded like a delightful title.Taking a look around DVD sites,I was disappointed to find no sign of the movie on DVD,or even VHS.

December 2014:

Taking a look at IMDbs Horror board,I noticed a post about someone having picked up a number of films from the DVD company Something Weird's site.Visiting the site,I was thrilled to spot the film right on the opening page,which led to me getting ready to finally experience a new temptation.

The plot:

Note:Due to how many stories there are,the order in the film may be slightly different.

Story 1 & wraparound thread:

Visiting a projection booth in a sex shop,a man puts a coin in a slot and starts to play the movies.

Story 2:

Beating all the guys at a game of bowling,a girl decides to find out if any of the men can strike a ten pin knockout with her.

Story 3:

Operating on a man's genitals,a female nurse finds herself upset over knowing that the man will never be able to experience sexual pleasure.Visiting the man,the nurse decides that she will try to give the man one more moment of pleasure.

Story 4:

Spending the night watching rude cartoons,a man hears a noise coming from the room next door.Taking a look through the keyhole,the man spots a women pleasuring herself,which leads to him deciding that it is time to turn the cartoons into a reality.

Story 5:

Catching a glimpse of a body builder in a sauna,a women invites the man to clay factory.Arriving at the factory,the womens begins making a model to show the man as a true Greek God.

Story 6:

Stuck on a long flight,a passenger & a flight attendant decide to pass the time in the best way possible.

Story 7:

Furious at constantly hearing a young couple next door have loud sex,a single man decides that he is going to get revenge,with his own sound of music.

View on the film:

Whilst the dialogue for the male characters, (who really let the side down,by largely lasting 30 seconds in bed!) is surprisingly brittle,the screenplay by writer/director Erwin C. Dietrich (who also appears in the opening segment)uses the 7 stories to give the title a short 'n' sweet approach,with Dietrich making the flick fly by,thanks to doing the set-up,then delivering the punch line in the shortest times possible. Initially being wafer-thin story lines,Dietrich expands the titles canvas,so that the quick and easy ten pin knockout progresses into an unintended battle of the sexes,where a couple go up against a single man in making the loudest sex noises possible.

Brought to the surface by the slightly dusty transfer by Something Weird, Erwin C. Dietrich shows each of the actresses to be dripping with charisma and a magnetic beauty,with Dietrich using stylish over-laying lights to shine on the prominent features of the cast.Entering the title bent over,the stunning Rita Waldenberg gives a striking performance as the ten pin hitting girl,whilst the very sexy Martina Domingo shows that women can make louder noises then any man can,as each of the guys discover a tempting roommate.
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