It used to be that if you wanted to watch sex in the movies, you had to put on clothes.

You would have to find a place that was showing so-called adult movies, and you had to sit

in the dark with a bunch of strangers.

This was the 1970s when deep throat and the devil and misjones, that's the devil in

misjones, and behind the green door were hits.

But then in the 1980s, the VCR comes along, and the adult film industry shifted production

to home video, and Hollywood freaked out.

And I have a theory.

They had to think of something that would keep people coming to theaters, coming to theaters.

So they figured, let's just take the sex and build a whole plot around it, and we'll

basically turn it into a genre, and that genre winds up being called the erotic thriller.

And in it, men and women are having sex, and the sex was the thing that sets the plot

in motion.

And the genre lasted from about 1981 to about, I don't know, the late 90s, it was pretty

much dead.

Some of these movies include Body Double from 1984, The Brian De Palma movie, 9.5 weeks

from 1986 with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

But the genre reaches its apex in 1987, with a movie that completely just electrifies the

nation.

It's called Fatal Attraction.

And it stars Glenn Close and Michael Douglas as two people having a hot sexy affair for

the weekend while his wife is out of town.

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