Sex comedy
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Sex comedy is a vague term for comedies with sexual content. They may range from comic pornographic films to relatively innocent romantic comedies that include jokes about sex and other sexual related humor. They are indebted to ribaldry, the burlesque and the picaresque.
Britain
'Adventures of...' directed by Stanley Long including Adventures of A Taxi Driver starring sitcom star Barry Evans. Long began his career as a photographer, before producing striptease shorts or “glamour home movies”, as they were sometimes known, for the 8mm market. Beginning in the late fifties, Long’s feature film career would span the entire history of the british sex film, and as such exemplifies its differing trends and attitudes. From coy nudist films (Nudist Memories, 1959), to moralizing documentary (The Wife Swappers, 1969) to a more relaxed attitude to permissive material (Naughty, 1971) to out and out comedies at the end of the 1970s.
British sex comedy films became mainstream with the Carry On series especially in the 1970s Carry On England in which an experimental mixed sex anti-aircraft battery in wartime is enjoying making love not war! However, the arrival of the new Captain S. Melly brings an end to their cosy life and causes terror in the ranks...
Carry On Emmanuelle the beautiful Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot get her own husband into bed. A spoof of Emmanuelle, the film revolves around the eponymous heroine and her unsuccessful attempts to make love to her husband Emile, a French ambassador. Emile grants Emmanuelle permission to sleep with anyone she likes, and her promiscuity turns her into a celebrity and a frequent talk show guest. Meanwhile, Theodore Valentine is besotted by her and wants them to get married. But Emmanuelle is obsessed with arousing her husband's sexual desire at almost any cost.
Other British sex comedy movies of the 1970s include 'Confessions of...' starring Robin Askwith such as Confessions of a Window Cleaner. Like the other films in the Confessions series; Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Confessions of a Pop Performer and Confessions from a Holiday Camp it concerns the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea and is based on the novels of Christopher Wood , writing as Timothy Lea.
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