In her essay "Crackers and Whackers: The White Trash of Porn," which among other things brings into relief the heritage of bawdy songs, the related oral culture of joke telling, and the "bawdy, farcical character" of early stag films in modern porn, Constance Penley, exclaiming that after its golden era passed, porn became "wonderfully trashy again," asserts that John Stagliano did for anal fetishism what Woody Allen did for neurosis, pointing out that, "as in so many stag films," Buttman is the "butt of the joke" since, "seeking the perfect shot of a woman's perfect ass," the character "gets mugged, evicted, bankrupted, rejected, and ridiculed – all in his single-minded quest for perfection."