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‘Sex and the Silver Screen’ traces history of racy films

Few films nowadays spare us nudity and/or sex scenes, so we might be forgiven for thinking Hollywood features were always that liberal. Not so.

‘Sex and the Silver Screen’ (Scanbox; €44.99) shows that movies have fought a long and often controversial campaign to open up the minds of censors. While ‘Deep Throat’ may have given explicit sex a profitable outlet, it’s hard to believe Hollywood was once under the grip of a regime where couples always slept in separate beds and even a kiss might raise the hackles of the moral police.
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