Word: porn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porn entrepreneurs offer case
...Mitchell, then 24, first tried his hand at making black-and-white porn films, using a borrowed 8-mm. camera and young men and women willing to copulate on screen for a few dollars a day. In due course he and his younger brother Artie made it big with Behind the Green Door (cost: $45,000; their gross: about $1 million), starring the ex-Ivory Soapbox Girl Marilyn Chambers. Now incorporated as the Mitchell Brothers Film Group, they are potentates of porn, operators of ten theaters in California and producers of the most expensive porn film ever...
...deprecating perennial juvenile ("I am the furthest thing from a mature person") who overstuffed his plain newsprint magazine with tales of his sexual obsessions, failures with women and humiliating need to buy sex from prostitutes because of his overwhelming unattractiveness. Screw (circulation: 125,000) features raunchy humor, gross sex, porn-movie reviews and endless columns of ads for prostitutes and willing amateurs. The formula, imitated by several other sheets, tapped an astonishing market of the sexually hungry, lonely and perverse, who, Goldstein says, have a right to their pleasures, just like the rest of humanity. His latest effort is Midnight...
...nation's richest porn merchandisers of the '60s now spends his time in federal prison. In the 1950s Michael G. Thevis was part owner of a busy Atlanta newsstand. When he noticed that "90% of the sales came from 10% of the displays"?sex books?Thevis threw himself into porn. By 1970 he claimed control...
...adult bookstores in the nation, plus some 30 porn theaters. Then his luck turned bad: he was convicted three times in federal courts (after more than 100 successful defenses) for interstate distribution of pornographic materials. Sentenced to 8½ years in prison on those charges, Thevis last month was hit with a concurrent 45 months after pleading no contest to the charge of conspiring to burn the movie theater of a porn competitor in Louisville. Thevis claims he sold his porn empire for $5.7 million in 1973. His feifdom, a maze of 200 corporations extending from California to New York...