The History Of Sex In Cinema

The History of Sex in CinemaSince 1959, when Russ Meyer's mini-budgeted The Immoral Mr. Teas made its unblushing bow on American screens—and walked off with better than a $1,000,000 gross—the "nudies" have had an impact far in excess of their numbers, their cost or their quality. Not only was many a failing art house saved from extinction by switching from foreign films to domestic flesh, but Hollywood itself, despite the strictures of its own Production Code, soon began cautiously to...