Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (Erotic 90’s, Part 1)

Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and feminism. Erotic 90s begins with a prologue about the disastrous rollout of NC-17 –the X rating’s replacement – and the evolving state of both porn and feminism at the dawn of the 90s. Topics include David Lynch, Harvey Weinstein, “pro-porn” feminism, “the new morality,” video stores, Magic Johnson, date rape, and much more. 

(00:00) The Beginning of the 90s and the “End of History”

(10:36) From Last Tango in Paris to The Unbearable Lightness of Being

(17:06) Harvey Weinstein, Wild At Heart, and the BIrth of NC-17

(25:02) Philip Kaufman and Henry & June

(36:18) Adult Video, Edwin Meese, and the De-Mainstreaming of Porn

(49:43) Playboy, MS, and “the New Morality”

(01:01:59) Camile Paglia, Madonna, and “Sex is Back!”

(01:13:20) The Anti-Feminist Backlash Picks Up Steam