Sexploitation film

Theatrical release poster for the 1969 Argentine film Éxtasis tropical, starring Isabel Sarli, one of the biggest stars of the sexploitation genre.[1][2]

A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget[3] feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s[4] and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used since the 1940s.[5]

In the United States, exploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres, which were the precursors to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and 1980s that featured hardcore pornography content. In Latin America (most notably in Argentina), exploitation and sexploitation films had meandering and complex relations with both moviegoers and government institutions: they were sometimes censored by democratic (but socially conservative) administrations and/or authoritarian dictatorships (especially during the 1970s and 80s),[6][7] and at other times they enjoyed an important success at the box office.

The term soft-core is often used to designate non-explicit sexploitation films after the general legalisation of hardcore content. Nudist films are often considered to be subgenres of the sex-exploitation genre as well. "Nudie" films and "Nudie-cuties" are associated genres.[4]

  1. ^ Parish, James Robert; Stanke, Don E. (1975). The Glamour Girls. Arlington House. p. 463. ISBN 978-0870002441. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
  2. ^ Turan, Kenneth; Zito, Stephen F. (1975). Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them. New American Library. p. 66. ISBN 978-0275507701. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
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  4. ^ a b Weitzer, Ronald John (2000). Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry. Routledge. p. 51. ISBN 0-415-92295-X.
  5. ^ "sexploitation | Origin and meaning of sexploitation by Online Etymology Dictionary". www.etymonline.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
  6. ^ Fevrier, Andrés: Hollywood in Don Torcuato. The Adventures of Roger Corman and Héctor Olivera (2020, Argentina). "Hollywood en Don Torcuato. Las aventuras de Roger Corman y Héctor Olivera" is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
  7. ^ Un Importante Preestreno (2015) Santiago Calori RaroVHS.com