San Francisco in the ’60s, hippies, cheap sex and the rise of smut
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Yes, dear readers: this is what your parents refer to when they talk of the ”Good ‘ole days”. When sex was dirty–but cheap–and everyone was doing it without condoms…. San Francisco was the place where a revolution took place. It had to: mix hippies, cheap drugs, a rampant gay community and the Viet Nam war and what do you expect?
San Francisco’s 1969 rise as ‘Smut Capital of America’
“It happened in 1969. And it happened in San Francisco.”
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SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA Teaser from Ben Leon on Vimeo.
SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA Teaser from Ben Leon on Vimeo.
It’s kind of hard to imagine that prior to 1969 there were no professionally made films that showed people having sex. In fact it was a court case that year which established that it was legal to even have a porn film in your possession.
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Smut Capital (The Hungry Hole) from Michael Stabile on Vimeo.
Smut Capital (The Hungry Hole) from Michael Stabile on Vimeo.
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