Directed by Tim Pope, Soft Cell’s Sex Dwarf video, released to promote their debut album, created quite a scandal in 1981. Claiming it was pornographic, British police actually confiscated copies of the video. It was banned from MTV at the time and has been banned from YouTube…though it pops up now and then.
 
The Sex Dwarf clip reminds me of the films of Jack Smith and The Kuchar Brothers, mashed up with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: a Bacchanalian group grope full of writhing bodies, hot flesh and a chainsaw. Enjoy it in all its sleazy glory. 
 

 
Tim Pope and Marc Almond discuss the making of “Sex Dwarf.”
 

 
Okay, so the headline comes from the Sunday Sport. It’s still out-fucking-standing, tho…

Below, the very NSFW original “Sex Dwarf” video by Soft Cell.

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Soft Cell’s Infamous ‘Sex Dwarf’ Video

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