I used to consider myself an “erotic artist”, but now I would say that I am an “artistic pornographer” — EM
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I used to consider myself an “erotic artist”, but now I would say that I am an “artistic pornographer” — EM
I think it was like thirty-five dollars a week for a room. They had a twenty-four hour switchboard and as a struggling actor that was great because I didn’t ever miss a call. If I wasn’t there they would take a message. The place was full of Hollywood wannabes, writers, actors, directors, musicians and also life’s losers. Ex-cons, drug addicts and that sort of thing.There was one ex-con there that had read Timothy Leary’s Tibetan Book of the Dead and was always trying to get us to do acid in a group scene with him.
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I really loved the seventies because it was the height of the sexual revolution and I was establishing myself as a pioneer in erotic photography. I eventually became “Penthouse’s most Published Photographer” working under the guidance of a true genius Bob Guccioni. I was given the freedom to express myself creatively and sexually without constraints and opened up an extraordinary lifestyle to me. It was an intensely sexual time. They called it the sexual revolution because there was just an explosion of freedom from the terrible sexual repression of the fifties, and also the sixties, where any kind of sexual behavior was considered dirty, nasty, and bad. Sex was an evil thing to be feared, and under no circumstances to be practiced before marriage. There are still forces today trying to force that point of view on us.
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