{"id":18822,"date":"2014-06-11T19:42:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18822"},"modified":"2016-09-19T03:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:38:24","slug":"profoundly-erotic-sexy-movies-that-changed-history-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/profoundly-erotic-sexy-movies-that-changed-history-paperback\/","title":{"rendered":"Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History [Paperback]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s the last book from Joe Bob Briggs, and for his final outing in the publishing world, he follows up \u201cProfoundly Disturbing\u201d with the equally excellent \u201cProfoundly Erotic.\u201d The final book reviews a series of erotic movies, all of which aren\u2019t exactly pornographic or erotica per se. They\u2019re instead very adult films that deal with sexual politics and the undertones of sexual repression. As usual Joe Bob Briggs is as insightful and informative as ever, and it was ultimately a breezy read to finish.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Mr. Briggs has his turn at some of the more unique erotic movies ever created, including one of my favorites \u201cKitten with a Whip.\u201d He explores how the movie was a career disaster for then starlet Ann-Margret, and how it\u2019s an underrated gem. I tend to agree. He also discusses the surprising popularity it\u2019s garnered with the Gay community, and how Margret\u2019s character is often depicted as a heroine by them. Briggs labels the film as a thriller version of \u201cLolita,\u201d and I\u2019d definitely consider it as a double bill with the Kubrick film, if only because it\u2019s about two very desirable young girls that take a hold on two middle of the road men, that find it hard to loosen their infatuation with them. Margret is a sexual dynamo in \u201cKitten with a Whip\u201d and it\u2019s nice to see Briggs speak of it with such respect.<\/p>\n

One of the best chapters is Briggs\u2019 exploration of \u201cThe Immoral Mr. Teas,\u201d one of the first Russ Meyer films that introduced porn to the mainstream. It\u2019s a harrowing feat, but Briggs squeezes in Meyer\u2019s fifteen volume, one thousand page biography in to five pages, discussing his background with filmmaking, and his utterly unusual obsession with breasts. \u201cThe Immoral Mr. Teas\u201d is a very influential if goofy skin flick, but one that was trademark Meyer, who loved enormous breasts right until his death. Briggs explores other really interesting films about sex, including the Rudolph Valentino silent film \u201cThe Sheik,\u201d and the tonally inconsistent but compelling \u201cLooking for Mr. Goodbar.\u201d Briggs goes out on a very high note, making \u201cProfoundly Erotic\u201d a thought provoking look at films that delve in to areas of sex but aren\u2019t exactly pornography or erotica. Joe Bob never fails to impress.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the last book from Joe Bob Briggs, and for his final outing in the publishing world, he follows up \u201cProfoundly Disturbing\u201d with the equally excellent \u201cProfoundly Erotic.\u201d The final book reviews a series of erotic movies, all of which aren\u2019t exactly pornographic or erotica per se. They\u2019re instead very adult films that deal with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[64,329,337,469,477,547,735,922],"class_list":["post-18822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grindhouse-review-fest","category-literature","tag-adaptation","tag-erotica","tag-exploitation","tag-history","tag-horror","tag-joe-bob-briggs","tag-non-fiction","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}