The History Of Sex In Cinema

November, 1965

The History of Sex in CinemaLed by the Legion of Decency, the Forces of Suppression Excoriate Hollywood's earlier eroticism and finally expunge it from the screenDuring the first few years of the cataclysmic Depression of the Thirties, Hollywood began to play dangerously with the fires of censorship by reaching new peaks of sensationalism and new lows in vulgarity. Although film attendance withstood the paralyzing effects of the stock-market crash of 1929, it was at the cost of slashing box-offi...