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Covergirl Rita Hayworth (Nude)
A Dirty Name In Boxing By Lester Bromberg
Are Lonely Hearts Clubs Love Slave Traps?
Sizzling Photos Of Rita Hayworth In Columbia's Sadie Thompson

 


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Fact - Fiction - Humor
Killer In Conflict

 


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Fact - Fiction - Humor
The Raw Deal - Page 26

 


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Horseracing - The Million - Dollar Tip!
Marijuana - Assassin Of Youth?
How To Attack The Establishment On A Shoestring

 


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Volume 14 Number 2 Adam
Special Underground Issue

 


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Today's New Breed Of Woman
Italy's Erotic Art
The Anti - Smut Crusade!

 


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Obscene Mail - How To Get On The List!
Zabriskie Point - Anti - American Or Realistic?

 


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The Love - In Give Peace A Chance
Does TV Distort Truth?
69 - The Sexual Taboo Is Broken!

 


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Love & LSD Julius Caesar
More Sexy Shakespeare
The Advertising Game - Sex Sells It, You Buy It

 


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Covergirl Janet Agren (Nude)
5 Year- The Erotic Explosion!
Get Sex & Power
Chicago's Conspiracy Trial - Best Play Of The Year?

 


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Sexually Aggressive Women Want Equal Rights
How To Form A Live - Together, Love-Together Group
Why Rudi Gernreich Killed Sex In Fashion
Adam Movie Close-up Woman On Fire - Called Lurid & Obscene By Italian Censors

 


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How To Program A Woman For Sex
Kinky Groupies Dig Leather & Domination
Video Voyeurism - Sexy Commercials On TV

 


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Covergirl Cynthia Barnett (Nude)
The Phony Massage Parlor Sex Game
Sexy Cindy Barnett Wins Adam Poll
Up Front Look At Male Falsies
Charles Manson's Crucifixion Orgy

 


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Try Group Marriage For Better Coupling
How The Government Spies On You
EroticAdventures Of A Swinger In Israel
The High Cost Of Free Sex

 


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A New Dirty Movie Called S.M.U.T.
Why Some Women Want To Be Raped
How To Handle Jealousy - The Ugly Passion
Cool And Aloof But Sexy As Hell...Ruth Gassman, Germany's New Sex Symbol

 

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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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