Sex In Cinema 1973

November, 1973

Sex in Cinema 1973The Rumblings had been heard for some time: a distant thunder, ominously persistent, punctuated by occasional flashes of lightning as a movie was closed here by overzealous sheriffs or a theater was burned there by bluenose vandals. Vocal minorities called for the arrest, prosecution and conviction of "the pornographers"; and, in response, a crescendo of court cases--many of them instigated by the FBI--rose from coast to coast. The Supreme Court had been sitting for m...