Just as main stream cinema was coming into it's own with incredible classics being churned out in the studios, film and cameras became more accessable and so the sex industry embraced the new media and produced the first films able to be widely distributed, The most infamous being Deep Throat.
The premis for the film is comical and no different to any porn now broadcast on late night tv.
A women visits her doctor as she is unable to orgasm threw penitrartion with her partner and the doctor discoveres that she has another vigina in her mouth which is capable of being stimulated.
And the doctor rodgers her as do a bunch of other people, Due to the nature of the film it was banned but some adult cinemas did show it, those that did quickly recieved the benifits of screening it as the general public liked it, or at least liked the idea of viewing something taboo, so more and more picture houses started to distribute it untill the film gained such notoriety that it was banned not only in the united states but the uk and internationally.
So why the interest in pornography ? - Because the rise of Pornography coresponds with the Second wave of Feminism, where as the First wave was about Basic rights and voting rights, The second wave was work equalitys and sexual equality. For Example Rape Laws within a Marriage, The Pro Choice movement to legalise Abortions, and the Pill being widely distributed. Some women were enraged by Deep Throat and the other porn being distributed like Being the Green Door, these films were graphic but also demeaning to women as the women was seen as a play thing or sex object, Where as other women like porn Actress Annie Sprinkles saw pornography as the ultimate in sexual liberation and saw the adult industry as something upholding the american constitutional rights of freedom of speach.
The second wave of feminism was filled with protests and had several activists who went on to do great things as acclaimed writers, journalists, polatitions, lawyers,and artsis.
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