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Weekly Roundup: It's Child Porn, But It's Worse Than That Edition
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Weekly Roundup: It's Child Porn, But It's Worse Than That Edition

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Question for the audience: How many of you can remember any salient plot points of the film Porky's other than the infamous shower scene? I have to confess that I could not, in much the same way that Fast Times At Ridgemont High exists in my memory as "Jennifer Jason Leigh lying down and Phoebe Cates standing up". Those movies were fairly simple devices: at a time when female nudity was fairly difficult to come by for teenaged boys, they provided a generous amount of it, wrapped in enough comedy to make the consumption of the film respectable. My high school classmates would have had a very low opinion of anyone who went to a peep show or an adult movie booth, but Porky's was just on this side of being, as the kids say now, "normalized". You could go see the movie with friends and not feel like you'd just watched a porno together.

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