Word: porn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That big one with the moustache is Ben Davidson, former defensive end with the Oakland Raiders and bit-part actor (clothed, in the porn classic Behind the Green Door). The little one he's holding is Jim Bouton, the ex-New York Yankee pitcher who threw curves at the baseball establishment with Ball Four, his 1970 book about drinking, dallying and other big-league peccadilloes. The two are preparing a fall TV series (titled Ball Four) in which Bouton portrays a so-so relief pitcher and Davidson plays a catcher named Rhino...
...George Jessel is a very sexy man," coos Edy Williams, 33, breathy-voiced, barely talented star of soft-porn cinema (Vixen) and former wife of X-Rated Moviemaker Russ Meyer. Edy, who last flung her affections at ex-Mobster Mickey Cohen (TIME, Sept. 1), is now making the rounds at Hollywood parties with the Toastmaster General, 78. "He treats me like a lady. He's a living legend, and he's still living it," insists Williams, who serves Jessel seven vitamins each day to combat his arthritic aches and pains. Jessel, thriving on such fare, is taking...
This unsavory brew of landlocked lechery and homicide has something -although not enough-to do with a Yukio Mishima novel. The book's spiritual narcissism and level tone of nightmare has been replaced here by the flossy look of soft-core porn, the pulpy dementia of a horror flick...
...spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization...
Charges that porn is a literature of sexual hostility and male machismo spring not from careful study, but from unexamined prejudices and preconceptions. The fantasies in pornography are more often extremely complex and subtle. Looked at objectively, they can tell us much about the culturally complicated relationships between the sexes...