Word: erotica
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Pornography's outsize profits are attracting many investors. Stock in Grove Press, a pioneer publisher of salacious books and U.S. distributor of foreign sex films, is now sold on the open market. Trading is scheduled to begin next month in the shares of another purveyor of erotica, Olympia Press; its latest skin flick, Barbara, cost $32,000 to make, grossed $ 11,700 in its second week in Manhattan and is scheduled for national distribution...
...time when life seemed ready, for a change, to offer some answers. She was as aware as anyone of the deaths of major talents who tragically thought drugs were something they could gamble with and win; most recently there was the death of the king of rock erotica, Jimi Hendrix. In the fall of 1969, she was taking a six-month vacation "to clear my head." By last February she claimed to have kicked heroin. "I don't touch drugs," she told an interviewer at the time. "These kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have...
...group's 18 members, twelve viewed pornography positively. As evidence, they cited one study in which "substantial proportions" of people exposed to erotica believed that the effect on them had been "socially desirable." Participants in experiments that exposed married couples to films and literature traditionally reserved for stag parties claimed that the experience "lowered inhibitions" between husband and wife, increased "willingness to experiment" and heightened "satisfaction with marital sex life...
...distinction is difficult to prove. For one thing, pornography has been a private enthusiasm, so that epochs of conservative outward rectitude, such as Victorian England, have produced lush undergrowths of erotica. And anyone who has ever attended a smoker with conservatives in, say, Prairie Village, Kansas, knows that the gusto for smut is nonpartisan. When he heard of the report, California Congressman John Rousselot, a conservative Republican, grumbled: "How did they determine it? I know they didn't interview...
...narrative, Meyer recants the dilemnas of each character at the end of the film. The announcer says of a lesbian "it was not because of her strange tastes that she died, but it had a lot to do with it." In the end, Meyer would argue, his brand of erotica is its own social redeemer, its own justification...