The posters for the x-rated films of the early 1070s were an eruption of ‘prick-teasing’ graphic design. Promising audiences of sexy scenes that more often that not never quite arrived.
By the late 1970s the VHS had arrived which bought the end of the classic x-rated movie poster. ‘People started watching porn at home, and the films started becoming explicit, which killed the posters,’ says Nourmand, one of the authors of X-Rated Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s. ‘But what I love about them is their spirit. They are the most graphically interesting posters of that period. Look at the number of fonts used, number of techniques used. They’re beautiful.’
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