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Adam V25 N1
Adam February 1981 - Vol. 25 # 1 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam February 1981 - Vol. 25 # 1

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Covergirl Anna Bergman Photographed by Janet Cook
Her Love Button - And How To Press It!
Christopher Reeve: The "Man" In Superman!
Roni & Terry
Stan Dale interviewed by Paul Miller

 


Adam V25 N3
Adam March 1981 - Vol. 25 # 3 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam March 1981 - Vol. 25 # 3

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Covergirl Tiffany Photographed by Rick Barnes
A Nevada Madam's Born - Again Brothel!
Swinging Marriages And Why They Work!
Sex In Las Vegas: Where To Find It & How Much To Pay!

 


Adam V25 N4
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Adam Vol. 25 # 4

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Sexual Power: How To Make It Work For You!
Clubs For Single Swingers!
New York Porn's Marlene Willoughby

 


Adam V25 N5
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Adam Vol. 25 # 5

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Interview Russ Meyer King Of Softcore Sex, Violence & Big In Worship!
Swingers: Dial 'O' For Orgy!
How To Find Sex Aids At Your Grocery!

 


Adam V25 N6
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Adam Vol. 25 # 6

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Free $2.50 Poster Inside
Where To Find Kinky Swinging
Seka Playing Around With The Porno Superstar!
Join Our Club Adam Swingers All New Listings Each Month!

 


Adam V25 N7
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Adam Vol. 25 # 7

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Interview Juliet Anderson Erotica's Aunt Peg Tells All
Hookers & Husbands Family Style Hustling
Free $2.50 Poster Inside

 


Adam V25 N8
Adam Vol. 25 # 8 - August 1981 magazine back issue cover image

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Adam Vol. 25 # 8 - August 1981

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Covergirl Rebecca Carmicheal Photographed by Rick Barnes
Sex And Speed At The Long Beach Grand Prix
Join Our Club Adam Swingers All New Listings Each Month!
Amanda By Night
Larry Levenson interviewed by Paul Miller
Male Strippers And Their Women

 


Adam V25 N9
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Adam Vol. 25 # 9

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Interview Sheri Nevada Madam For Swinging Couples
Sex Clinic How To Cope With Sex In Stress
Plus: Wild Porn Stars S&M Punk Girls
Free $2.50 Poster

 


Adam V25 N10
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Adam Vol. 25 # 10

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Covergirl Rita Jenrette (Nude) photographed by Peter Bartok
Adam Goes To Chicago Swingers Convention
Sex Clinic: Getting Fused Sexually (It Can Happen)
Girls Into Hockey - Where's The Puck?

 


Adam V25 N11
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Adam Vol. 25 # 11

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Porno Superstar Jamie Gillis Tells
Secret Of How He Stays Up, Gets Off!
Confessions Of A Dildo Demonstrator
Plus: Girl Mud-Wrestlers, Hot Swingers Survey Free $2.50 Poster

 


Adam V25 N12
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Adam Vol. 25 # 12

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Special Holiday Issue
Free 1982 Calendar
Free Giant Poster
Annual Porno Movie Awards: All The Stars!

 

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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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