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From: diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Smut
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 17:18:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 17:18:22 1983
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Porn movies used to reviewed regularly by Playboy, but they dropped it. I
hope someone on the net can help me recall what was playboy's reason(s).
I believe they said that it was all the same old stuff, and thus not deserving
of the coverage afforded other films.  But face it, it's either a porn movie
or not.  To me, close-ups of lovemaking would be hard to depict as "art" of
any type.  Thanks to the Playboy channel I was able to retire my raincoat
and save $5.00 a month.  I went to seee my first porn movie a few years back
and was shocked to find the theater full of couples... I was the only fool
in a raincoat, not what I expected.  Everybody laughed at all the sex scenes!

I believe you see the same porn stars all the time because the porn-makers
have set up their own "Hollywood" system, so to speak.  That reads "Who'll
pack the theaters?"  They have their own "Oscar", and if any of you have
the Playboy Channel you've probably seen the Erotica Awards, where they hand
out prizes for costumes, music, plot, (PLOT?), etc.  I have to admit that
the movie Nothing To Hide had a pretty good plot, that is to say I paid
attention to what went on in between the sex scenes, and it could have made
a decent movie (no pun intended) if they left out the explicitness.

Anyway, the porn shops and theaters are returning to Atlanta, after a long
battle with the law down here (that's another tale - oops!) and they aren't
as explicit as the PC.  I found out that porn producers are now shooting
their movies in 3 versions-- soft-core (simulated sex), hard-core, and 
R-rated.  Boy, what would they have done with Princess and Jabba the Hutt!!!


Anyway, I have a good friend who is a pervert, and I'm sure he'll be glad
to know that porn is not dead, just diversifying!!!

dennis