Showing the neighborhood my asshole

Within a year, it hit the world.

The shooting got many mainstream holders dumbfounded

that we can't know exactly how much it made

because it was financed by a firm.

Within two years, we saw the death of Elizabeth Jones

behind the green door.

These four movies made more money per screen

than even The Godfather, which was

released around the same time.

Though the sexual revolution that made these films possible

was, at first, mostly a heterosexual affair,

it also had a profound effect on gay men.

The intense stigma attached to homosexuality

before Stonewall blocked any open discussion

of gay male sexuality and ***** gay men

to sexual expression deep underground.

Consequently, the increasing acceptance of pornography

during the '60s and '70s played a significant role

in the sexual lives of gay men, even more

than it did among the straight men of the same age.

The increasing social acceptance of porn

helped to legitimize visual representations

of homoerotic images and gay sex in general.

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