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AFWG V4 N1
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 1

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Erotic Movies Are What You Get! The Wife Has A Lover On The Side,
While The Liberated Woman Gets Help From Her Friends
The Street Of A Thousand Pleasures Has 71 Naked Ladies
And Once You've Tried The Sexual Merry-Go-Round You'll Want It One More Time!

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 2

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Covergirl Barbara Bouchet (Not Nude)
Film World
Volume 4 Number 2

 


AFWG V4 N3
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 3

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Visit Lovely Ladies On The Set, Learn How To Make A Sex Film
Find Out What Happens When They Tie Her Up, Torture Her, Listen To Her Scream
Visit With A Show Biz Lez
Listen To The Sounds Of Sex, Read All The Secrets In A Pornographer's Diary And Much Much More

 


AFWG V4 N4
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 4

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Behind The Scenes With A Scenic Behind
Three New Roman Orgy Films
On Making A Porno Film
The Girl Who Had A Thing For King Kong

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 5

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Covergirl Rene Bond (Nude)
Learn The Hardcore Secrets Behind The Green Door
Listen To The Confessions Of A White Slave Porno Star
Visit Sue Rainer And Sandy Jackson On The Set And Learn Why They Love To Do Erotica
Preview A Heady Panorama Of Sexual Cinema From The Stepdaughter And Female Factory To Wet Lips

 


AFWG V4 N6
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 6

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Deep Throat: The Number One Hardcore Sensation!
Iceberg Slim's Trick Baby Explodes On Screen!
Donna Young Stars As A Night Nurse With Michael Asher In T.L.C. (That's Tender Loving Care!)
It's The Most Erotic Hospital Movie Ever Made!

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 7

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Covergirl Pilar Velasquez (Not Nude)
The Mitchell Brothers, San Francisco Porno Czars, Preview Resurrection Of Eve, Their Latest Hit
Hard-Core Actress Kandi Johnson Tells Why She Likes To Do Explicit Films
Black Caesar Star Fred Williamson Raps About His Sex Life
Stella Stevens Tells Some Secrets

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 8

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Danish Porno Movies: How They Are Made!
The Real Emily Smith: Sex Film Star!
Scenes From The Sensational Film Sleazy Rider!

 


AFWG V4 N9
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 9

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The Scenes On The Front And Back Covers Of This Issue Are From The Film Frankie And Johnnie Featured
Other American And International Films To Be Found Between The Covers Include:
The Season Of The Virgin Vampires, Captive Maid, Sex In The Comics And Many More Films
With Unusual And Entertaining Subject Matter

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 10

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Memories Of Judy Garland
The Art Of Alfred Hitchcock And Curtis Harrington
Interview With A Sex Star
The Inside Story On The Cannes Film Festival

 


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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 11

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The Artistic Quality Of Steve McQueen
The Style Of Life Of LIV Ullmann
The Sexual Signifance Of Linda Lovelace
The Great Beached Whale: MGM

 


AFWG V4 N12
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Adam Film World Guide Vol. 4 # 12

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Rod Steiger: The Actor's Actor
D.W. Griffith: And The Birth Of An Art Form Tuesday Weld
A Profile - Plus: Film Reviews - And Much More!

 

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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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