Thanks to films like 'Deep Throat' and 'The Devil in Miss Jones,' adult movies were once considered just as artful as classical cinema.
In a 1995 interview with actress Georgina Spelvin, Screw Magazine editor Al Goldstein described porn as “a subspecies.” “Endangered,” Spelvin laughed back, “it’s always been endangered!” By this point, more than twenty years had passed since the adult film industry emerged from the underground, and it had since receded to its own little category, although on a far wider scale than ever before.
Of course, photographic pornography had existed for as long as photography had, but until this point, had been an underground affair. People made pictures and films for their own amusement, to show on a projector at parties, or to be sold under the counter in specialist shops. In the 1950s, pinup model Bettie Page and her associates were embroiled in legal proceedings under the Kefauver committee, which considered pornography to be a moral disgrace and a serious danger to the public.
The Devil In Miss Jones is probably the best porn movie ever made. It embodies everything that the rapidly-expanding adult genre of the early ‘70s was ideologically aiming for: it is a real movie…with sex. A virgin commits suicide and encounters a guardian of Hades, with whom she arrives at a bargain: if she is damned to hell for her means of death, she can borrow time back on earth to truly earn that damnation, and experience all the carnal sin she never had.
She went on to enjoy a very long career in the industry - even taking up the sloppy seconds of Lovelace’s aforementioned sleazy husband - and doing the unthinkable by breaking out into mainstream film, notably in David Cronenberg’s Rabid. Georgina Spelvin was the enigma of the scene: a 36-year-old classical ballerina-turned-protest filmmaker, she was traditionally too old, too normal, and too classy for the industry.
Courts would see it differently: if Deep Throat was a symbol of sexual freedom to the masses, it was to be used as an example by politicians and lawmakers of what happens to radical thinkers. By the time all three "golden era" movies had been released to much fanfare, in the case of Miller v.
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