The multi-billion dollar success of the Fifty Shades franchise has a lot to answer for, with erotic thrillers finally breaking free of their leather-bound prisons to escape onto film and television screens everywhere, with American Kamasutra marking the second coming of a story that had already climaxed.
Six-episode miniseries Submission ran on Showtime between May and June of 2016, but even though it was hardly showered in critical praise, it was decided that the entire thing would be re-edited and released as a feature with a much more salacious title, with American Kamasutra promising all sorts of titillating goings-on that would get viewers hot under the collar.