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of you must remember this, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten

histories of Hollywood's first century. I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is

another installment of our ongoing series, Arotic Nineties.

I'm a sex saver, just sex not love, just sex. And sex just isn't cool without conum

for protection, or a hooker. He talked about pornographic material.

He gave me a lot of pleasure. So we could show the sex act all over the place.

I have seen one or two things in my life, but never, never anything like this.

This episode is about a movie that came out in the summer of 1993, but the story starts

in the fall of 1991, with the annual Movie Line magazine Sex Issue. Patrick Swayze was

on the cover promoting point break, with the pull quote,

I hate being a sex symbol. What can I tell you? Being on the cover of a sex issue protesting

that you hated being a sex symbol was very Nineties. As was a whiplash inducing editorial

on page 20 of the magazine, by William Stadium, headline, sex is back.

With the advent of AIDS, the sexual revolution that had raged into the disco inferno of the

70s, peaked out into a state of non-affairs that was known far and wide as the new celibacy.

People stopped doing it. After a decade, however, the failure of AIDS to explode into the heterosexual

community has somehow signaled the passage of a sexual statute of limitations.

Today, people in Hollywood are doing it again, on-screen and off, and talking about it as well,

with a gusto reminiscent of that attendant to the repeal of prohibition almost 60 years ago.

Stadium sites the recent successes of pretty woman and ghost, as proof that sex is back.

And then looks ahead to another film that was about six months away from release.

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