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...Polyester, Francine Fishpaw (Divine) presides over a bunch rowdier by far than any Dark Age cavalry. Her husband runs a movie house specializing in kiddie porn; her daughter trucks around with vicious punks; her son is a criminally insane foot fetishist. Only Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), Francine's dream lover, offers any hope for spiritual regeneration, for he is everything her husband is not: handsome, slim, roughly debonair, and the owner of an art drive-in that shows Marguerite Duras triple bills. Best of all, he is in love with her . . . or so it seems. Francine should have known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Pittsburgh! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...mass marketing of porn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Sale Appeal | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...film venture succeeds, Uhse may start U.S. mail-order outlets in sun-and-fun states like California and Florida and market her products nationally. She has no plans at present, though, to open any sex boutiques in the U.S. Reason: zoning laws or public pressure have usually relegated porn palaces to disreputable districts like New York City's Times Square and Boston's Combat Zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Sale Appeal | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Romance fiction has also attracted some unsolicited (and scholarly) criticism as well. Columbia University English Professor Ann Douglas brands the genre "soft porn," that corrupts feminist ideals by glorifying male dominance. But Author Be atrice Faust in Women, Sex and Pornography takes a stand worthy of a romance heroine. In the right kind of contemporaries, she argues, "men have acquired tenderness and girls have matured into strong, independent women." These exemplars may help readers across the minefield of a new sexual culture. But the central question posed by Sullivan remains unanswered: "Why do women need so much fantasy in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: From Bedroom to Boardroom | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...fall screening of "Deep Throat" revived anti-porn sentiment on campus, Tilbor said, adding that at least one or two sex films are scheduled for the spring...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Princeton May Ban Porn | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

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