American Pie came out in 1999, spawned six sequels (and offshoots) and reinvigorated the teen sex comedy that was so prevalent in the 80’s with films like Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, & Risky Business, just to name a few.
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Sex Sells: A Brief History of Cinema’s Favourite Trick.
Sex sells. This is not a bold thesis so much as a stubborn, unkillable truth, and few mediums have leaned into it more enthusiastically than cinema. From the earliest flickers of film, sexuality has been baked into the language of movies. One of the first films ever publicly exhibited, The Kiss (1886), ran a scandalous…