nothing shock anymore . after hear the word semen stain dress during national news broadcast and from the lip of super square dan rather and no less and on a nightly basis during the bill clinton or monica lewinsky scandal and a grandma cum sex trade worker who orally stimulate anonymous men at a gentleman club have less shock value than it might have and say and in the late seventy and when diane keaton star a a slutty schoolteacher and look for love in all the wrong place and in richard brook look for mr. goodbar . when maggie ( marianne faithful ) jerk back and forth on a client penis and just be grateful that filmmaker catherine breillat wasn not at the helm of irina palm . it would just be too graphic for word . but the film be breillat like in the sense that the filmmaker de eroticizes sex and by take the sex organ out of context from the human body and which be something the french provocateur attempt with female genitalia in 1999 romance . the hand job soon become a normal job and like an office job and which be the case for anybody involve in the sex industry and a exemplify when maggie brings into her office and some personal effect from home . since the end result of maggie unlikely occupation be for a good cause and the great good blind u to how unseemly her line of work really be . when tom ( kevin bishop ) chastise maggie after he discover what mom have be up to and for the first time and do we question her sense of morality . irina palm stop be a deadpan comedy and ask it audience to take a second look at what maggie be do . be she humiliate herself . yes and no . at the beginning and yes and because maggie be squeamish . but she do it anyway and a an act of love for her sick grandson . after the shock of the new wear off and maggie start to take pride in her job . she good at it . the former homemaker have never be good at anything in her life . although maggie life in a good neighborhood and and have fancy friend and she only upper class by association . her husband be rich . by be a sex industry worker and she reclaim her work class root . arguably and she doesn not belong in the parlour of a society friend and sip tea with the lady . maggie find herself and alone in a room with penis and and become something more substantial than a widow . like the girl in lizzie borden work girl and maggie find feminism in the strangest place and too .