Hard-Core From A To Xxx
June, 2002
In the Sixties and Seventies, smut merchants slipped their films past censors by calling them documentaries about nudity and sex. One of the first mass-marketed adult films was a 1968 quickie called Pornography in Denmark, followed by a collection of stags billed as The History of the Blue Movie. Today, porn is respectable enough that serious filmmakers regularly visit the San Fernando Valley, where most adult videos are shot, to search for the meaning of choreographed sex. They drop by sets and...