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...first blow in the one-two punch that brought porn into the open was a 1969 documentary, Pornography in Denmark, from the sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, the sub-Kinseys of their day. As filmmaker John Waters recollects: "Pornography in Denmark got around the law because it was a 'serious documentary,' right? It was supposedly 'socially redeeming,' but it showed penetration.... It was a big deal because after that there was no turning back. That's the day exploitation films ended -the way Andy Warhol ended Abstract Expressionism in one night by that soup can, the way the Beatles ended...
...that it didn't work. Publicly exhibited porn flourished for the next decade. New York City, certainly, was much more open in the Lindsay-Beame-and-Koch 70s than it would be in the Giuliani 90s. In the early days you could see such perverse eccentricities as Why, a Kronhausen documentary about a Danish farm girl, Bodil Joensen, who has sex with her livestock. That one I skipped...
...been visible over much of southern Sweden, including the town of Lund. It heralded an 800-work display in Lund's museum entitled "First International Exhibition of Erotic Art." The nucleus of the show was drawn from the collection of Paris-based U.S. Sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, who maintain that their interest in erotica is "part of our concern with mental health. We feel very strongly that sexuality is the great remaining pocket of cultural insanity...
Insane or not, it was certainly explicit. At the preview, a large, coffinlike object, covered with black fur and with a slit across the lid, was rolled onto the museum floor. Out from its pink, uterine interior stepped Phyllis Kronhausen, 39, dressed in a see-through minidress and nothing else. Neither she nor a stark-naked violinist offered much competition to the art, which included erotic Indian sculpture, a Guinea fertility goddess, a Rembrandt etching of the artist and his wife disporting in a four-poster bed, a Picasso engraving of a couple copulating, and a vast variety of dildos...
...Lover, the U.S. Southern District Court has subsequently denied the right of the Postmaster General to ban the unexpurgated edition of that book, and people have begun to wonder if the next step--Miller--is really a pornographer or a prophet. In Pornography and the Law by Eberhard and Kronhausen he was called "the apostle of the gory detail"; Karl Shapiro has called Miller "the greatest living author...
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