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Sexploitation or "sex-exploitation" describe a class of independently produced, low budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and/or gratuitous nudity. The term is often considered to designate a subgenre of exploitation film
Exploitation film

Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising....
s as a whole. Sexploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres
Grindhouse

A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. It is named after the defunct burlesque theatres located on 42nd Street in New York City, where 'bump n' grind' dancing and striptease used to be on the bill....
, the precursor to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and '80s that featured hardcore
Hardcore pornography

Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features Sexually explicit material. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography....
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Sexploitation or "sex-exploitation" describe a class of independently produced, low budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and/or gratuitous nudity. The term is often considered to designate a subgenre of exploitation film
Exploitation film

Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising....
s as a whole. Sexploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres
Grindhouse

A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. It is named after the defunct burlesque theatres located on 42nd Street in New York City, where 'bump n' grind' dancing and striptease used to be on the bill....
, the precursor to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and '80s that featured hardcore
Hardcore pornography

Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features Sexually explicit material. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography....
 content. The term soft-core is often used to designate non-explicit sexploitation films after the general legalization of hardcore
Hardcore pornography

Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features Sexually explicit material. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography....
 content. Nudist films are often considered to be subgenres of the sex-exploitation genre as well.

White coaters

In the late 1960s, American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 obscenity laws were tested by the Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 film I Am Curious (Yellow)
I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious is a 1967 Sweden film directed by Vilgot Sj?man and starring Lena Nyman as a character named after her. It is a companion film to 1968's I Am Curious ; the two were initially intended to be one 3? hour film....
. Because the ruling by the United States Supreme Court allowed the film on the basis of its educational context, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a number of sexploitation films which were widely referred to as "white coaters"; in these films a doctor dressed in a white coat
White coat

A white coat or laboratory coat is a knee-length overcoat/smock worn by professionals in the medicine field or by those involved in laboratory work to protect their street clothes....
 would give an introduction to the graphic content, thereby deeming it educational. Language of Love and other Swedish and American films capitalized on this idea until the laws were relaxed.

Notable sexploitation directors

  • Russ Meyer
    Russ Meyer

    Russell Albion Meyer , was an United States film film director and photographer.Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured high camp humor, sly satire and large-breasted actresses....
  • Doris Wishman
    Doris Wishman

    Doris Wishman was an United States film director, screenwriter and independent film producer.Self-taught as a filmmaker, Wishman is noteworthy for her paracinematic, camp aesthetic and is often referred to as "the female Ed Wood." The majority of her work was designed to be released in the American sexploitation film market of the 1960s...
  • David F. Friedman
    David F. Friedman

    David F. Friedman is an United States filmmaker and film producer from Birmingham, Alabama.Friedman first became interested in entertainment after spending parts of his childhood at traveling carnival sites....
  • Joseph W. Sarno
    Joseph W. Sarno

    Joseph W. Sarno is an American film director and screenwriter.One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno has written and directed approximately 75 feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and Hardcore pornography genres....
  • Joe D'Amato
    Joe D'Amato

    Joe D'Amato, was a prolific Italian people film director. Though he worked in a variety of genres he achieved his greatest fame in the horror arena....
 
  • Michael Findlay
    Michael Findlay

    Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, Film director and Film producer numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation"....
  • Radley Metzger
    Radley Metzger

    Radley Metzger is an United States filmmaker and distributor. He is also credited under the pseudonym Henry Paris, a name he adopted in the 1970s when he began to direct hardcore pornography....
  • Andy Milligan
    Andy Milligan

    Andy Milligan was an United States playwright, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor, Film editing, Film producer, and Film director, whose work includes 27 films made between 1965 and 1991....
  • Carl Monson
    Carl Monson

    Carl Monson aka Carlos Monsoya, Charles Monsoya and Nosnom Lrak, was at the forefront of independent low budget sexploitation/grindhouse films or paracinema during the 1970s and 1980s....
  • Tinto Brass
    Tinto Brass

    Giovanni Brass , better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italy filmmaker. He is noted especially for his work in the erotic genre, with films such as Cos? fan tutte , Paprika , Monella and Trasgredire....
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  • Jesus Franco
    Jesús Franco

    Jes?s "Jess" Franco is a Spain film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor. Though he had an American box office success with his first Women in prison films, 99 Women, in 1969, he never achieved wide commercial success....
  • Jean Rollin
    Jean Rollin

    Jean Michel Rollin Le Gentil is a French people film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Rollin is credited as having made the first French vampire film as well as the first French gore film ....
  • Stanley Long
    Stanley Long

    Stanley Long , often known as Stanley A. Long, is a British Exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He is a writer, cinematographer, editor, and eventually, producer/director of cheap exploitation movies....
  • Stephanie Rothman
    Stephanie Rothman

    Stephanie Rothman is a film director, film producer and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s....
  • Anna Biller
    Anna Biller

    Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker. She is known for her visual style, and for her use of period genres and satire. Her 2007 sexploitation feature film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won the Best of Fest Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival....


    • See also

    • Women in prison films
    • Exploitation film
      Exploitation film

      Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising....
    • Pulp magazine
      Pulp magazine

      Pulp magazines were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s....
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  • Nudist films
  • Pinku eiga
    Pinku eiga

    is a style of Japanese softcore theatrical film. Films of this genre first appeared in the early 1960s, and dominated the Japanese domestic cinema from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s....
  • Bavarian porn
    Bavarian porn

    Bavarian porn is a campy subgenre of softcore porn comedy. The apogee of the genre was the late 1960s and early 1970s, corresponding roughly to the chancellorship of Willy Brandt, but these films continued to be produced up to about 1980....
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  • Black Emanuelle
    Black Emanuelle

    Black Emanuelle is an Italy softcore film from 1975, the first in a series made to cash in on the success of the France film Emmanuelle, which was released the year before....
  • Pornochanchada
    Pornochanchada

    Pornochanchada is the name given to a genre of sexploitations produced in Brazil that was popular during the 1970s and early 1980s. Its name combined porn? and chanchada ....
  • Nudity in film
    Nudity in film

    Nudity in film refers to the presentation in motion pictures of people without clothing, whether as Nudity#Full Nudity ? a view of someone's entire nude body ? or more Modesty#Modesty in the arts....


    • External links

    • Sexploitation Movies:
    • Razor Reel:
    • Atomic Cinema:
    • Razor Reel:
    • Something Weird: http://www.somethingweird.com/ Popular online resource for Sexploitation movies]
    • Interview with Stephanie Rothman: http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/10/stephanie_rothman.html