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...particular, has gotten star treatment from his dormmates. They cheered his every move against the Irish and afterwards presented him with a placard which said. "Go Playboy Kid--Pride of Weld North," referring to Ferry's mention in a college round-up compiled by the ever-popular soft-porn magazine...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Freshman Duo Dazzle in Preseason | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

Having tried to kill himself twice, Farmer awakens from heavy sedation to find that his Malibu beach house has become the setting for an impromptu orgy--an epiphany for him. Farmer realizes that his film can only succeed as soft core porn. "We give them romance," he shouts, "when they want sado-masochism...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Sour Grapes | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

Five subjects were traditional no-nos at English dinner parties: sex, politics, religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Proper Way to Eat a Pea? | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...runway for years, but now cable television is definitely airborne. A quarter of the nation's 77.8 million TV homes are hooked up to one of the 4,600 local cable companies that pipe into living rooms everything from first-run movies, hard-sell religion and soft-core porn shows to kiddie programs and the proceedings of Congress live. Cable-systems owners, present or prospective, are as hot on Wall Street as genetic engineering firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present a mere $45 million in cable-television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informercials | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...support it have made the exploitation of women perhaps the most widespread and most ineradicable example. And a whole industry of pornographers takes the principle of tantalizing advertising to its logical conclusion: where an ad will use the bodies of women as bait to sell an unrelated product, a porn magazine trades directly in the female form itself. Once that form becomes an object to merchandise, it follows naturally that the promoters will seek ever more extreme ways to present the object: from titillation to abuse, from abuse to rape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson And its Advertisers | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

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