Playboy: The Story of X

100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars

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The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind The Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.

Creators

Chuck Workman

director

Cast

Buck Henry actor Christy Canyon actor

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Ginger Lynn actor

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Juliet Anderson actor

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Samuel Z. Arkoff actor

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Juli Ashton actor

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Lisa De Leeuw actor

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John Holmes actor

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Samantha Fox actor Hugh Hefner actor Zalman King actor Jayne Mansfield actor

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Russ Meyer actor Roman Polanski actor

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Vanessa del Rio actor

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SaRenna Lee actor Linda Lovelace actor Traci Lords actor

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Amber Lynn actor Bernardo Bertolucci actor