Sexually Explicit Visual Media
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The Resurrection of Eve
The Resurrection of Eve, released in 1973, features the team from the previous year’s Behind the Green Door: Marilyn Chambers plays the title role, Eve, and the film is directed by the Mitchell Brothers. It’s a far more sophisticated and accomplished film than Green Door. It has a substantial narrative, the acting is (with a…
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Torn
Do you wonder if there is really such a thing as good porn? Do you wonder if a pornographic movie could tell a story so honest, so compelling, and so powerful that it would move you emotionally, even bring you to tears? Can you imagine a film that so integrated sex into the story that…
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Eyes of Desire
Eyes of Desire was, if I’m counting correctly, the twelfth film from Candida Royalle‘s Femme Productions. Royalle was one of the first ‘feminist’ pornographers, and she was far and away the most successful feminist pornographer of the twentieth century. Femme’s first release was in 1984, also titled Femme, Directed by Lauren Niemi, it’s a collection…
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Night Trips
Directed by Andrew Blake and released in 1989, Night Trips was considered absolutely revolutionary at the time. Blake had a background in glamour photography, and it shows in the film. It was shot on 35mm film, for one thing, at a time when most porn was shot directly onto video tape. And the way it’s…
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Insatiable
After becoming famous for her roles in Behind the Green Door and various other films, Marilyn Chambers attempted to forge a career as a ‘legitimate’ film star. After a few minor roles, she returned to pornography in 1980 with the film Insatiable, directed by Godfrey Daniels (in reality, Stu Segall). The film is regarded as…
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Behind the Green Door
Released in 1972, Behind the Green Door is one of the earliest feature-length pornographic films. It’s discussed at some length by Linda Williams in Hard Core, and I’ve discussed it myself in “Does Pornography Presuppose Rape Myths?” The reason it was of interest to me there is that, more so than any of the other…
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Deep Throat
It seems appropriate to launch the site with some comments on the film that, in many ways, started it all. The one pornographic film that just about everyone has heard of. There was, of course, pornography before Deep Throat. There were even feature-length pornographic films before Deep Throat. The film Behind the Green Door, directed…
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Why Reviews?
Whenever I go somewhere to speak about my work on pornography, at least a few people ask me whether there really is any ‘good’ porn out there. Of course, this leads pretty quickly to a discussion of just what ‘good’ porn (or, at least, ‘better’) porn might be like. But often people are actually just…