Raizl is an eighteen-year-old, Yiddish-speaking Chasidic Jew who defies custom by going to college, allowing for her first taste of the unfiltered internet.  School-sanctioned laptop in hand, curiosity leads her into the world of online porn, and her blunt observation, her made-up language for that which is forbidden, is certainly amusing.  But video after video, night after sleepless night, Raizl finds herself addicted and unimmune to the dangers of sexual naivety.  Struggling beneath the pressures of work, school, and her family’s expectations—namely, that she marry soon—Raizl must perform a balancing act between exploring her sexual desires and honoring religious values.  Shmutz is a deviant coming-of-age story for readers of Milk Fed and Unorthodox.