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Adam V11 N1
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Adam January 1967 - Vol. 11 # 1

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Exclusive! Stella Stevens Nude Shower Scene From The Rage!
The College Bohemian And His Misunderstood Attitude Toward Sex, Religion And War
The Fleet Installment Of The Satyricon
Fiction By Robert Edmond After And Morfan Killean

 


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Quack Cures For Impotency!
Don't Be Trapped By Psychological Job Tests
The Millionaire And The Hollywood Sex Symbol
Adam Visits Charlie Mincus The Set Of The New Dean Martin Ann Margret Matt Ralin Moris

 


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The Man's Home Companion!
Klu Klux Klan 100 Years Of Brutality
Exclusive! Photos From The Movie That Was Too Sexy For The French Cessors!
Fiction By Ray Russell

 


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A Hollywood Agent Talks Frankly About His Sexy Starlets!
Flying Saucers How Long Have They Been Around?
The American Flyer And The Viet Sexpot
Fiction By Jack Ritchie, Ray Russell, David Madden And William E. Sprague

 


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America's Strange New In Fad... Mechanized Sex!
Prize Winning Author Sam Elkin Details The Nuttiest Sexiest Conflict In History
Five Sensational Nudes, PlusPhotos From I, A Woman And Fiction By Jack Hitchie

 


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The Man's Home Companion!
Hollywood Freakout!
A Ghost That Murdered
Adam Goes To A Wild Sexy Costume Ball

 


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Another John Wayne Movie
An Undercover Look At Beds Built For Lovemaking
Bold - Beautiful Full Color First Time Ever!
Plus More Pages, More Girls More Of Everything!

 


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Hell's Angels Blast Or Bust?
How To Organize Your Own Orgy
Lost Sex Japanese Film Too Hot For America!

 


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Sex And The Sports Car The How And Where Of Speedqueen Shenanigans
Renaissance Pleasure Faire - Why The Establishment Howled
A Behind The Gunfight Look At The Old West

 


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Covergirl Jayne Mansfield (Nude)
Hollywood's Sex Queen Remembered - Jayne Mansfield
A Short Refresher On Improper Approaches - The Social Intercourse Game
A Visit To The Island Of Free Love Tahiti - Sexual Retreat

 


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The Cancan - Immorality In French Kicks
A Street Of Sin - Nogales Red-Light District Turns On
Nude Films - Sex Shockers Build Box Office
Humor By D.G. Lloyd

 


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Our Topless Heritage Wins A Court Decision
Sex May Not Be Forever
How China's Prostitutes Rocked The Boat

 

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Adam Film World (AFW) and Adam Film World Guide (AFWG) were American magazines about pornographic film, starting in 1966 as The Adam Film Quarterly.

Knight Publishing Corp. had launched Adam magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow Playboy's success. Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. The first issue's cover price was US$1 and the cover story was about The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill, an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth.

Originally, like Playboy, the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars such as Orson Welles or Judy Garland. However, by 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued monthly.

The Internet Adult Film Database owes its start to Peter Van Aarle, who began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World starting in 1982.

Adam Film World was called "one of the industry's leading trade publications" in 1994 by the Associated Press.

In his 2001 book Pornography and Sexual Representation, Joseph Slade states, "Extremely valuable are the reports, reviews and gossip of Adam Film World and Adult Video Guide, the oldest American monthly devoted to explicit cinema and generally more reliable than similar magazines, though the information on actors and actresses should be approached with caution. Best described as a fan magazine, Adam Film World hypes the careers of performers for a credulous audience, but partly for that reason it is unparalleled as a guide to the mores and customs of the porn subculture." Slade pointed out that the magazine's interviews with performers were, to an extent, similar to celebrity interviews in popular mainstream magazines: "Actors and actresses usually begin by talking about their parents, their adolescence, their own children, lovers, the importance of grooming, then move on to discussions of augmented breasts, relative penis sizes, favorite costars and directors, referred techniques of oral, vaginal, or anal sex, striptease dancing on tour as a sideline and—most important—their fan clubs or their 900-telephone numbers."

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 when its sister publication, Adam Film World Guide, was launched. Today the role of adult film awards has been mostly supplanted by Adult Video News, with its AVN Awards, which launched a decade later.

Adam Film World Guide, in turn, spawned an annual Directory of Adult Films starting in 1984. The annuals were "important directories of...hard-core films and videos of the previous eighteen months, with lists of notable films of the past, capsule reviews that rate eroticism from 'warm' to 'volcanic,' addresses of distributors and retail outlets, brief biographies of actors, directors, and producers and indexes by theme, director, and performer."

Edward S. Sullivan was the first editor of Adam Film World, followed briefly in 1984 by John Zeus, while former pornographic film actor Tim Connelly was editor, under the name Jeremy Stone, from 1985 to 2003. Connelly, as Stone, was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in the Fifth Estate category in 1998.

Knight Publishing eventually expanded to add several other magazine titles such as Adam Black Video Illustrated, Adam Gay Video, and Cinema X Monthly and several others, but Adam Film World remained the flagship of the group until it was discontinued in the late 1990s in favour of Adam Film World Guide. By 2008, owner Bentley Morriss put the company up for sale. When a buyer was not found, the magazine empire folded.

The Adam Film World annual X-Caliber Awards based their selection of winners "largely on the votes of readers who are members of the audiences of the adult theaters." although after the popular vote is counted, "an editorial panel makes the final selections". The winners were announced annually starting with the August 1976 issue for films released the previous year. By the second year, the Z-Caliber Awards, for the worst movies, were also introduced.

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