Alongside Eyes Wide Shut there are a number of films dealing with erotic fantasies at this year's festival.

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The young photographer Nev Schulman receives a painting from an eight-year-old girl based on one of his published pictures and begins an online correspondence with her, and then with her mother, and then with her nineteen-year-old sister, with whom the communications soon turn flirtatious, even erotic.

NEWYORKER: Catfish

Last year, Surrey became a UK lending hotspot for loans of EL James's Fifty Shades erotic romance trilogy.

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