Sex In Cinema--1971

Sex in Cinema--1971One year ago, in Playboy's November 1970 issue, we wrote, "The pendulum has already begun its reverse swing--and it's bound to hit somebody." The pendulum referred to was the degree of permissiveness granted to films shown in the United States, and the allusion was to those who believed that movies had gone too far in their depiction of sexual activities. In May of 1971, that pendulum made its first strike. Jack Valenti's Motion Picture Association of America, the in...