The Golden Age of Porn refers to a brief modern period in the history of pornography, approximately from the late-sixties to the late-1970s. The history of erotic The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. [1] The period is idealized as a time in history where difficult to treat or untreatable STDs had not achieved wide public notice and birth control and abortion permitted sex for pleasure without worries about unwanted pregnancies. A sexually transmitted disease ( STD) or venereal disease ( VD) is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between Humans Birth control, sometimes synonymous with contraception, is a regimen of one or more actions devices or Medications followed in order to deliberately prevent An Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract This freedom was ostensibly reflected in the pornography industry, with adult movies and magazines approaching the mainstream and becoming increasingly visible. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer [2] The trend is exemplified by Deep Throat (1972), probably the most successful porn film of all time. Deep Throat is an American Pornographic film released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the
The golden age was also typified by interactions with the contemporaneous second wave of feminism. Second-wave feminism refers to a period of Feminist activity which began during the 1960s and lasted through the late 1970s Radical feminists allied with the religious right in opposing pornography, while other feminists were more concerned with ideas of sexual liberation and freedom from government intrusion into the growing industry. Radical feminism is a "current" within Feminism that focuses on the theory of Patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex [1]
Early Days
The origins of the Golden Age are typically associated with the massive widespread success of the movies Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door and The Devil in Miss Jones. Deep Throat is an American Pornographic film released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano (listed in the Behind the Green Door (1972 was the first hardcore Pornographic movie widely released in the United States. The Devil in Miss Jones is a 1973 pornographic Film, written and directed by Gerard Damiano These movies saw the blossoming of pornography in the mainstream consciousness, whereby drive-in theatres would take out full page newspaper ads to promote the latest adult features.
Along with these classics, filmmaker Bob Chinn, along with the priapic porn star John Curtis Holmes and his manager Bill Amerson raised adult film to a new art form, with the release of Johnny Wadd in 1971 and the subsequent release of six other films in the Johnny Wadd series. Bob Chinn is an American Pornographic film director. He is a member the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. John Curtis Holmes ( August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John C Bill Amerson was a pioneer and mogul in the Adult film industry in the late-1960s all the way to the late-1980s The Wadd series saw true character development, recurring characters, plausible story lines, and 35mm cinematography brought to the adult screen. Thanks to these films, John Holmes became a household name, and a "brand" that guaranteed box office success.
The Golden Age was commemorated in the 1997 mainstream film Boogie Nights. This article is about the 1997 film For the Heatwave song see Boogie Nights.
References
- ^ a b Second wave: Feminism and porn's golden age. Radical Society Oct 2002 by Loren Glass
- ^ Boogie bites: Porn star activists want to pave the way for a new era of enlightened porn...but isn't this an oxymoron?. Salon.com, By Jenn Shreve
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