>Although to be fair, in the 1970s porn had entirely a different set of
>social markers than it has today. It was aligned in the public mind with
>the sexual revolution and the left and independent films and had a short
>bout of mainstream respectability centered around the success of Deep
>Throat.
>
>It had a similar reputation in Spain when Franco died. Almodovar
>supposedly started his career as a porn movie maker.
>
>Michael
A friend of mine was a Komsomol leader in the early 80s. His mother, who was one of the SU's biggest geologists, picked him up of Playboy at one of her overseas conferences. He was terrified smuggling it back to his apartment in a bag, afraid the cops would stop him. Getting caught with it would have seriously damaged a Komsomol leader's reputation.
Punishment for makinh pornography in the USSR was 3 years, though university students might occasionally make naked ohotos of their girlfriends and pass them on to their friends.
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