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...legislative seats in next Sunday's national elections, no other candidate receives the coverage accorded Ilona Staller, 37. Under the banner of Italy's small Radical Party, Staller provocatively proclaims that "more pornography equals knowledge and nonviolence." But the flashbulbs really start popping at her rallies when Staller, a porno star better known as "Cicciolina," rolls down the top of her tight hot-pink dress and buttresses her rhetoric with a fulsome display of physical eloquence. While campaigning, the half-clad Cicciolina embraces many of her admirers. Her slogan: "Let's have pleasure. Let's spread happiness." Her pitch against...
...melt when the product is cleaned up a bit and presented at home, where the woman can feel safe and treat the movie as a prelude to lovemaking. Women account for perhaps 40% of the estimated 100 million rentals of X-rated tapes each year. "The VCR put porno where it belongs: in people's bedrooms," says an executive vice president for one porn house, Essex Productions of Chatsworth, Calif. "I never felt it belonged in theaters. People feel that in the comfort of their own homes, they are allowed to be a little wicked...
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...
...When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase a Daffy Duck videocassette...
...women's movement (Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon), bad for the movement (A.C.L.U. Attorney Nan Hunter) or basically irrelevant to feminist interests (Movement Pioneer Betty Friedan). "Today could be a turning point in women's rights," MacKinnon told a news conference in a cramped storefront near the Times Square porno district that serves as the offices of Women Against Pornography. "Women actually succeeded in convincing a national governmental body of a truth that women have long known: pornography harms women and children." Hunter tapped a different strand of feminist thinking: women should seek liberation, not special protection from the state. "Protectionist...