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Adam V15 N2
Adam February 1971 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam February 1971

Features
A Lurid Description Of Sensitivity Training
America's Newest Sex Game
The Sexiest Girls In Paris - At The Crazy Horse Saloon!
How Women's Lib Grabs You Where It Hurts The Most

 


Adam V15 N3
Adam March 1971 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam March 1971

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Now Bigger, Better, Wilder - More Pages, More Color!
How I Taught My Girl Sexual Etiquette
How "X" Rated Films Are Castrated For TV
New Flashlight Gimmick Used In LA'S Live Sex Shows

 


Adam V15 N9
Adam Vol. 15 # 9 - October 1971 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 9 - October 1971

Features
Covergirl Heidi Andersen Photographed by Ron Vogel
Touch Me: The Ultimate Movie Orgy
Biological Sculpture
Sexual Pleasures Of The Waterbed
Bizarre Ritual Uses Human Sperm

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 11 - December 1971 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 11 - December 1971

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Covergirl Photographed by Michael Le Roy (Not Nude)
Casanova Swings Again In A Hot Sex Film
Famous Roman Chef Gives Recipes For An Erotic Dinner
Yayoi Kusama's Sexual Revolution
Just How Sexy Are Those Paid Performers?

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 12 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 12

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Covergirl Jan Pennington Photographed by Michael Le Roy (Not Nude)
Frenchmen Riot To See America's Naked Performers
Hollywood's Wild Party For Rock Freak, Alice Cooper
Movie Close-Up: Runaway Runaway
How Fantasy Can Improve Your Sex Act

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 1 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 1

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History Of Those Dirty Little Comic Booklets
How To Give Women Equal Rights In The Bedroom
New Wave Sex Schools Give Live Demonstrations

 


Adam V15 N3
Adam Vol. 15 # 3 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 3

Features
Now Bigger Better Wilder - More Pages, More Color!
How I Taught My Girl Sexual Etiquette
How X Rated Films Are Castrated For TV
New Flashlight Gimmick Used In La's Live Sex Shows

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 4 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 4

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Sex Shows Live Action On Sunset Strip
Making It What To Do When You Can't
Sexual Ecology Solving The Population Problem
Kansas City's Red - Light Legend

 


Adam V15 N5
Adam Vol. 15 # 5 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 5

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Special Report: Most Erotic Film Festival Ever In San Francisco!
How To Use Women As Sex Objects
Warhol's Trashbaby Makes It Big In New York
Free! Full Set Of Calendar Nudes

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 6 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 6

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First Photos! The Sex Show That Got Busted In Hollywood
Nudes Help Swedes Raise Money For Sports
She's Back... More Pix Of Miss Boom Boom!

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 7 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 15 # 7

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Our Man In Greece Reports On Sex Scene ...It's Wild!
Why You Can't Trust The New Mystic Cults
Hottest Show On Stage ....Exclusive Photos
Barbara Miller ...A Lovely Sexpot To Blow Your Mind

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 8

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Hey, Big Spender! Taxi Dancers $900 An Hour
LA's #1 Porno Filmmaker Says Making Stag Films Can Ruin Your Sex Life!
Exclusive! The Sensuous Watermelon By "G"
Screwy Games To Relieve Bedroom Boredom

 


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Adam Vol. 15 # 10

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Rapping About The Pimp Game
Iceberg Slim
Special Report: Oral Freedom
Kendo... The Sport Of The Samurai

 

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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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