Word: peepshow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porn industry, a loose, sprawling congeries of businesses, roughly divisible into the old porn (peepshow films, sleazy photo magazines and porn paperbacks, mostly produced and distributed by organized crime) and the new porn (theater films, glossy men's and women's magazines and sex newspapers, most of which grew out of the youth culture of the '60s, and are still independent of organized crime). The industry's products are generally separated into what the trade and its public consider hardcore or soft-core porn. The distinction is not always easy to draw, but in hardcore, sex acts are explicitly shown...