Adult Film World magazine in 1973/1974: The Complete Issues

We continue our digitization project with the west coast film publication Adam Film World, and re-publishing all the issues from 1973 and 1974.

These issues contain interviews with Sharon Kelly, Emily Smith (aka Clair Dia), William Rotsler, Kandi Johnson, Fred Williamson, and many others from the west coast adult film scene, and features on films including The Pigkeeper’s Daughter, Deep Throat 2, Behind The Green Door, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein and Frankie and Johnnie.

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Adam Film World: 1973 – 1974

Adam magazine was launched by Knight Publishing Corp in the 1950s as an attempt to follow the success of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine.

In 1966, Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine under the guidance of artist, cartoonist, science fiction author, and keen pornographer, William Rotsler. Its remit was to cover the growing sexploitation film industry, though it also covered mainstream films of a sexual nature and movie stars who appeared in racy films.

By 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued on a sporadic basis for the next three decades, covering the increasingly hard-core American adult film industry, as well as European and Japanese sexually-oriented movies.

The publication is also notable for having issued the first movie awards for excellence in pornographic film, first with the X-Caliber Awards in 1975, then replacing them with the AFWG awards starting

In 1981 its sister publication, Adam Film World Guide, was launched, which in turn, spawned an annual Directory of Adult Films starting in 1984.

January 1973 (Vol 4, No. 4)
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Contents:

– The Pigkeeper’s Daughter – Shannon’s Women – Enslaved – Interview with William Rotsler (aka Clay McCord) – Cuttings from a sex film editor’s floor – An inside report on where sex film models come from … and much more

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April 1973 (Vol 4, No. 5)
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Contents:

– Blood Sabbath – Steelyard Blues – Wet Lips – The Stepdaughter (aka And When She Was Bad…) – The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Tomb – Interview with Sue Rainer (aka Kathy Williams) – Behind The Green Door – The Secrets of the O’Farrell Theater – Interview with Sandy Jackson … and much more

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June 1973 (Vol 4, No. 6)
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Contents:

– The Erotic Adventures of Zorro – The Daughter of Fanny Hill – Paradise Lust – The Black Decameron – Deep Throat – Dave Friedman interview – San Francisco porno films report – 1972 Porno Awards … and much more

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August 1973 (Vol 4, No. 7)
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Contents:

– Little Miss Innocence (aka Teenage Innocence) – It Happened In Hollywood – Space Thing – The Black Bunch – Last Tango in Paris – Interview with Stella Stevens – Interview with Fred Williamson – San Francisco porn film interviews – Kandi Johnson interview – The Mitchell Brothers double bill – Ed Karsh interview … and much more

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October 1973 (Vol 4, No. 8)
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Contents:

– Sleazy Rider – The Dirty Mind of Young Sally – Cold Eyes of Fear – Interview with Emily Smith (aka Clair Dia) – Inter-racial Porno Movies – Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Porno Movies … and much more

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February 1974 (Vol 4, No. 9)
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Contents:

– Frankie and Johnnie – The Sensualists – My Life in Porno Films, by Merrill Dakota – Sex in the Comics – Captive Maid – Fragments of Porno – Vanessa Redgrave … and much more

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April 1974 (Vol 4, No. 10)
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Contents:

– Sassy Sue – Poor Cecily – The Day Evelyn Rose From The Tomb – Curtis Harrington – Porno Girls feature – Raquel Welch – Judy Garland … and much more

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June 1974 (Vol 4, No. 11)
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Contents:

– Sandra – Booby Trap – Linda Lovelace – Mona – Monique Milan feature – Liv Ulmann – The Burning Nights of Poppea – Steve McQueen … and much more

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August 1974 (Vol 4, No. 12)
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Contents:

– Female Chauvinism – High School Fantasies – The Queen of X-Rated Hearts – Memoirs of a Sex Film Starlet – Tuesday Weld – 1001 Nights: Italian Style … and much more

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October 1974 (Vol 5, No. 1)
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Contents:

– Code Name: Rawhide – The Female Bunch – Sharon Kelly interview – Swinging Wives – How to Make a Stag Film – I Was The Star of a Copenhagen Sex Show … and much more

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December 1974 (Vol 5, No. 2)
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Contents:

– Lash of Lust – Sex Swap – The Young Secretaries – All About Sex Films For Fun and Profit – Confessions of a Happy Pornographer – Kristiana: Danish Porno Actress – Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein – Deep Throat 2 … and much more

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