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...shut down the films and secured the conviction of one actor. They were directed by men who could fancy themselves as artists, and starred off-Broadway actors as well as the occasional gifted ingenue -like Linda Lovelace, star of the movie that created the craze (and the phrase) "porno chic," Deep Throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...Fast on its heels came Mona, the first porno fiction feature, which opened in theaters in San Francisco and New York -and, more important, wasn't closed down by the police. Set in the Bay Area, Mona had no redeeming social interest, only redeeming prurient interest. It's about an engaged girl who has promised her mom she'd be a virgin on her wedding day, but figures fellatio doesn't count. The movie spends its 70 mins. following the parallel adventures of Mona and Mama. (Both generations sup at the loins of Mona's fiance, and take my word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...infamous premise of the 1972 porno movie Deep Throat is that one young woman’s clitoris is inexplicably located very deep inside her throat, thus she can only achieve orgasm by performing oral sex. After scratching your head and thinking back to high school biology class, there’s only one thing left to do: laugh. And then maybe get curious...

Author: By Laura E. kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...Porno is acceptable for married men,” he said...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tim Robbins, Man of the Year | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Contrast today with the early 1970s, when movies like Straw Dogs, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris and Nichols' own Carnal Knowledge promised a future of truly adult depictions of sex. At the same time, the first wave of porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Let's Talk About Sex | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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