Graphic Thrills: Classic XXX Movie Posters in New Book

Femmes De Sade. Sex Wish. Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls. Pretty Peaches. The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue. Talk Dirty to Me. First Time at Cherry High.

The colorful titles of hardcore porn films of the 1970s and '80s, such as those above, were more than matched by the posters promoting them—posters that, yes indeed, hung in actual theaters where audiences bought actual tickets to sit (or do whatever) in the dark among actual strangers and watch actual full-blown fucking and sucking projected larger than lust itself onto actual full-size movie screens.

The new book Graphic Thrills: American XXX Movie Posters 1970 to 1985 by Robin Bougie (Fab Press, 2014) compiles dozens of these eye-and-other-organ-popping come-ons into a slick and sumptuous bound collection, where each image is accompanied by a miniature editorial feature on the movie at hand (and gland). Cinema history has seldom been so hot.

Author Robin Bougie, the perv-pleasing proprietor of the long-running exploitation movie 'zine Cinema Sewer (and its multiple spin-offs) authoritatively and entertainingly provides a fascinating, funny, and, given the era, appropriately funky education on theatrical hardcore with wit and passion that's purely his. If you're not familiar with "The Bougieman", plunge in with Graphic Thrills and dive deeper from there. Smut scholarship on this level should be approached mo(i)st seriously.

Order Graphic Thrills from Bougie himself and he'll autograph it for you—with his one free hand, no doubt.

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