The History Of Sex In Cinema
June, 1967
Since 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 insert seminude scenes into...
