Jamie Gillis, Serena, Jennifer Welles, and Harry Reems shared the same space as Raquel Welch, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson. The series was enlightening on two fronts:įirstly, it chronicled the increased sexual permissiveness in mainstream films, with films like ‘Last Tango in Paris’ (1972) receiving more and more attention with the general public.īut secondly, the articles also treated explicit sex films side by side with their Hollywood counterparts, thus fueling the idea that the two streams would perhaps eventually merge into one. Starting in 1969, Playboy magazine ran an annual article every December selecting the ‘Sex Stars’ of that year. Who were the sex stars of the 1970s? How seriously was their work being taken? And how well do their films measure up today? The Rialto Report recently celebrated our fourth birthday, and so we thought it would be a good moment to take a brief step outside of the bubble of golden age XXX films, and look at what was happening to the depiction of sex in mainstream films over the same period.
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