Porn chic

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The term porno chic (also golden age of porn or Golden Age of Porn ) was first used in the early 1970s, around the shaft pornographic describe movies that at this point the first time in US mainstream - cinemas have been presented to it and to those under other productions like Behind the Green Door , Deep Throat , The Devil in Miss Jones and Score . Today the term is also used to describe the increasing spread of pornographic style elements in a wide variety of mainstream media contexts.

Original meaning

Deep throat

With the appearance of Deep Throat at the latest , it was fashionable for a period of two or three years to watch and discuss relevant films. In 1973, a five-page review of the film Deep Throat in the New York Times became very popular, using the term porno chic in its headline to describe this phenomenon.

Actress Linda Lovelace at the time was of the opinion that the porn industry would be absorbed in Hollywood mainstream cinema.

Directors such as Gerard Damiano , Radley Metzger and Lasse Braun created pornographic films that approached classic film productions in terms of budget and craftsmanship and were based on the actors' distinctive plot lines and acting skills. Long before the first porn productions for the video market these films were often in super-wide screen format (aspect ratio 2.35: 1) produced, they visually that the cinemascope of 20th Century Fox were similar. These developments created several significant works in their genre and resulted in films based on the same basic principles being made years later. Some of the most famous productions are:

Current use

Since the 1990s , the terms porn chic and porn chic have also been used increasingly to describe the growing spread of pornographic style elements in a wide variety of mainstream media contexts in pop culture such as: B. Describe movies, commercials, and music videos .

Active and former pornographic actors (such as Michaela Schaffrath ) appear regularly in talk shows and feature films or, like actors from the non-pornographic sector, make their publicity available to NGOs in the PR framework (for example Ron Jeremy for PETA ). Promotion events, trade fairs and autograph sessions are now part of everyday business for the big names in the industry. Since Jenna Jameson established herself as a celebrity in the glamorous world of the media business a few years ago , social responsibilities have also been part of the profession for some porn stars. Since the 1990s, it has also been increasing or becoming public in the United States that Hollywood actors have relationships with pornographic actors, in some cases with private videos that were later distributed over the Internet.

British media scholar Brian McNair was one of the first to use the term in a scientific context.

In the field of fashion , the increasing violations of traditional moral standards were also subsumed under the term porno chic . For example, In 2003, for example , the designer Tom Ford, who was then working for Gucci , used the company's logo as an intimate shave after he had previously depicted the model Sophie Dahl completely naked in a pose in which she was for an " opium " perfume campaign banned in Great Britain after protests by passers-by seemed to be masturbating . In 2001, the French State Secretary for Women's Rights, Nicole Péry , told Le Monde that she would be calling for tougher measures against "lewd and shocking" posters.

literature

  • Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia: The Other Hollywood . The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. Regan Books, 2005, ISBN 0-06-009659-4 ( English ).
  • Diedrich Diederichsen: The good old mustache sex . No. 33 . DIE ZEIT, Hamburg August 11, 2005 ( documentary: The good old mustache sex - features section - ZEIT ONLINE ). “Documentary: The Good Old Mustache Sex. The documentary "Inside Deep Throat" tells of the most successful porn of all time and glorifies the past of the sex industry. "
  • Corliss, Richard: That Old Feeling . When Porno Was Chic. Time Magazine, New York March 29, 2005.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ralph Blumenthal: "Porno chic: 'Hard-core' grows fashionable-and very profitable". In The New York Times , January 21, 1973.
  2. ↑ In an interview from the 1970s in the documentary Inside Deep Throat .
  3. ↑ William L. Hamilton: "The Mainstream Flirts With Pornography Chic". In The New York Times , March 21, 1999.
  4. ↑ cf. Anette Dina Sørensen: " The mainstreaming of pornography in mass culture ( Memento of May 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )", 2003. (Source no longer available online. Status: September 14, 2007)
  5. ↑ cf. Jon Henley: " A very Gallic problem ", The Guardian , July 12, 2001, and Avril Stephens: " French lash out at 'porno-chic' ".