Word: porno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riverrun in the late afternoon of a humid hot May Saturday, a day which drove city-dwellers up the walls or out to the countryside. With a friend, I'd walked up from the Village to Central Park, then full of softball games and lingering couples, street musicians, porno peddlers, family picnics and friendly cops. To walk through it that day, to row a boat in its cramped pond was to welcome back the sentimentality and nostalgia forestalled during the year by sterner pursuits. When with sweat-stained shirts and feet aching we decided to move to the East Side...
...circumvent censorship, Porno, as the film is known, is passed off as a documentary. Clumsily interspersed with the sex scenes are travelogue footage of Denmark and man-on-the-street interviews of the queues entering Copenhagen's 1969 Sex Fair. Police vice squads have raided Porno-once in Los Angeles, twice in San Francisco-but courts have refused to close the show. Another censorship dodge, used by many of de Renzy's competitors in the fast-expanding porno market, is sex education. Such how-to-do-it movies as Man and Wife and Marital Fulfillment clinically demonstrate...
...pictures in advance of distribution, Maryland pays the members of its Board of Motion Picture Censors between $4,000 and $4,500 a year each. In fiscal 1969, the trio previewed 687 movies, censored objectionable portions from 14, and rejected 59 outright. Half of those rejected were 8-mm. porno productions made on a shoestring, which is more than most of the performers wore. None of the disapproved films was produced by members of the Motion Picture Association of America, which voluntarily rate their movies for their suitability for different audiences. To look at the issue through the censors...