The Golden Age 4K,1080.720.480

                                                        The Golden Age 

Sex sells, the saying goes, but what if sex is what you’re selling? For the producers of adult films during the genre’s golden age (1970-1985), the secret to hot ticket sales was an eye-catching poster.

And during that 15-year heyday, there were some beauts. Though many of the films were coarse, poorly made “weekend wonders,” the posters promoting them often were gorgeous works rendered by artists with genuine talent. In fact, it could be argued that in many cases, posters for adult films were more artistic, authentic and creatively conceived than their mainstream counterparts.

“Theatrical hardcore adult movies weren’t a thing until Alex De Renzy’s Pornograpyhy in Denmark, which was released in U.S. theaters in 1969. But if we’re talking about softcore adult movies, those really started with Russ Meyer’s The Immoral Mr. Teas a decade earlier,” says porn historian and graphic artist Robin Bougie, author of two volumes of Graphic Thrills: American XXX Movie Posters (FAB Press). “And that had a movie poster just like any other theatrical film would have, because how else are you going to let people know about your low budget movie in 1959?”

                                                               Download now

                                               GDRIVE

 

                                           WATCH NOW