A History of SEXUAL or EROTIC FILMS from filmsite.
It is believed that sexually aggressive women in a number of films brought about the Hayes Code instituted in 1934 which stifled Hollywood for years. In the 50's Hollywood began leaving the Code. This was followed by the more swinging 60's and finally the freedom 70's. Many conservatives today blame all of America's problems on what they call hippies and the freedom attitudes of the late 60's and early 70's.
The late 60's and early 70's were the first public showings of porn films. In 1974 was the first soft-core Emmanuelle film. In the 80's home VCR's sounded the death knell for serious x-rated films but a proliferation of non-studio productions expanded sex in art house and independent films. The conservative backlash first created the revised film ratings board from the earlier Hayes created board and then slowly created stricter interpretations of film ratings. (Others disagree and say there has been ratings creep. It seems language is more permitted but nudity is more restricted.) The NC-17 rating, created to have a mainstream studio X category, was originally No Children under 17 admitted. It is now No One 17 or under admitted. Erotic scenes in the 90's and the breaking of boundaries by art films.
The Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes - Intro. This is an illustrated history of sex in film.
The History of Sex scenes in film, the earliest, - the latest. "Some of the most significant milestones, and most influential and memorable sexual/erotic scenes and films on the big screen through cinematic history. Most of these films, with portrayals of sex and/or nudity, were considered quite erotic, groundbreaking, unique and/or controversial at the time." Most of the recent films mentioned here keep the cable movie channels in business. More on what happened to the American porn film business.
"The market for adult films started slipping around 1982," Chuck Vincent told the 3/9/88 Variety. "In the past three years it's dried up. Five years ago (1983), the video companies such as VCA and Caballero would typically advance $40-60,000 for the video rights to a theatrical porn film. Then two years ago (1986) they stopped making offers - they decided they could do four shot-on-video programs themselves for the cost of video right to a single theatrical film. These programs are shot in a single day, with no theatrical value."More on the history of porn - there were no legal public pornographic movies in the 60's although 8-mm stag films started to appear when home film projectors became popular in the 50's. Notes on the history of pornography.
Screenwriter Rich Marx earned thousands of dollars from his X-rated scripts including Taboo but after the video revolution he found himself out of work. He went mainstream. Rich told Variety that "the fundamental difference between now and several years ago is that back then we wanted to make a real picture - which people would enjoy and had possibilities of attracting the crossover, mainstream audience. The best shot we had at this was Chuck Vincent's Roommates in 1981, which I cowrote.
"The new breed are amateurs who have picked up a video camera. Video had enabled them to bypass film technique and the entire film distribution business, so they can create a direct-marketing mail-order business to store and the public, even creating warehouses in their own homes." - a tranquil eye.
Porn in the sense of color high-quality explicit sexual pictures can be considered a Scandinavian invention.
Alberto Ferro aka Lasse Braun traveled around the world from 1962 to 1967 shooting high quality loops and distributing explicit books and magazines. He believed that making quality erotica would allow for the eventual legalization of the product. Ferro inspired a young Danish MP of the Social- Democratic Party to sponsor legislation that decriminalized sexually explicit books and pictures.
Lasse founded Beta Film in Stockholm and began producing hardcore ten minute loops shot in color on Super 8mm. He starred in his first loop, Golden Butterfly, with his girlfriend from Monte Carlo. She dressed up as a Japanese Madame Butterfly and Lasse played a naval officer. Instead of singing, the couple had sex.
Pornography - wikipedia.
Pornography - timeline - rotten.com.
Linda Lovelace, happiest on the porn set or had a gun to her head? You get both sides of the most famous porn star's story in this interesting historical essay by Joe Bob Briggs with Eric Danville making corrections and his interpretations.
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