The duo who pioneered Australian erotica

January 9, 2024 7:12 AM

"We thought we'd have a go ourselves, for the heck of it": The duo who pioneered Australian erotica. The forgotten story of the pioneering Sydney-based creative couple behind the one of the earliest explicit adult films produced in Australia in 1970.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (4 comments total)

Saturday Night Live in the USA had a skit about Australian erotic film:
posted by scasburn at 7:40 AM on January 9

Add your own jokes about the porn equivalent of Crocodile Dundee's "That's not a knife" scene her.
posted by Paul Slade at 8:17 AM on January 9 [1 favorite]

Ha, my US preschool twins watch too much Peppa and Bluey so everything is "can I have a go" for "I want to do it myself". This gave me an extra laugh.
posted by atomicstone at 9:39 AM on January 9 [3 favorites]

This reminds me that after watching Priscilla Queen of the Desert again I learned about Carlotta and Les Girls. They were a Sydney cabaret show in Kings Cross in the 60s-80s and were apparently quite raunchy. But like a lot of drag shows of the era it was just respectable enough that ordinary folks about town would go for a good time. There's a film of a 1987 performance.

A little off-topic but another part of Australia's opening up to sexual expression in the era.
posted by Nelson at 11:10 AM on January 9 [1 favorite]