San Francisco Was Once Lovingly Called ‘The Smut Capital of America’
Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs and porn theaters, and a boomlet occurred right in this very city in which theaters began flipping over into porn palaces one after another.
A new documentary short, Smut Capital of America, by local filmmakers Michael Stabile and Ben Leon explores this subject, and features interviews with John Waters, and a number of porn people from back in the day.
Stabile spoke with the Guardian this week, and you can watch a clip here. If you’d like to help them in their quest to raise money to cover the cost of all the terrific archival footage they’ve dug up, which will be used in a future feature-length documentary as well, feel free right here. Were you also aware that Senator Dianne Feinstein began her political ca …
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