Music Video
The video for "Sex Is Not the Enemy" was filmed on April 20 and April 21 and was a low-budget video shot by Sophie Muller. On the first day of shooting, both Manson and Muller shot scenes in a hotel room and at Times Square in New York City. On the second day the band filmed live footage at their show at Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club.
The video featured a stunt where Shirley was arrested on-stage after exposing her breasts (actually a flesh-coloured bra) and was dragged off the stage by hired actors posing as policemen, visually referencing and almost parodying the song's take on the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. The audience were not let in on the stunt; and afterwards boo-d and heckled at the venue, many of the audience thinking it had been a Punk'd stunt. The band was filmed rehearsing for the stunt, and footage was included on a mini-documentary on the "Sex Is Not the Enemy" DVD.
Butch Vig recalled: "We shot a lot of footage of Shirley running around New York. She was getting up on a soapbox with a bullhorn and just yelling at people. And it was funny, 'cause people thought, 'Oh, another crazy woman.' They just ignored her."
The video first aired in the United Kingdom the week of May 16, after a full day of exclusive streaming from Garbage's website and premiered in the U.S. on July 4. In 2006, the "Sex Is Not the Enemy" video became available to download on digital stores worldwide.
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