Cultpix Radio Ep.25 - Sex Education (and Scare) Films
Django Nudo and the Smut Pedler discover that the only thing scarier than Halloween Horrors are US sex hygiene scare films. With sexually frank adult dramas too taboo to be made in the repressed Hollywood of the fifties, other countries' sexually frank adult dramas were imported, shown in “arthouse” theaters, and sold as smut. Like “Unmarried Mothers” (1953), an amiable paean to Swedish maternity homes. The four “Language of Love” films (1969-1972) are the core of this history of sex e...