Adam Film World: The Complete 1980 Issues

We continue our digitization project by looking at the west coast film magazine Adam Film World – and this time reviewing the issues published in 1980.

These issues include interviews with people such as Candida Royalle, Sandi Foxxe, and Clair Dia, articles about Claudia Jennings, Tina Russell, and adult film awards, and features on movies such as Mystique, The Ecstasy Girls, Talk Dirty To Me, Easy, and much more…

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Adam Film World: 1980

Adam magazine was launched by Knight Publishing Corp in the 1950s as an attempt to follow the success of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine.

In 1966, Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine under the guidance of artist, cartoonist, science fiction author, and keen pornographer, William Rotsler. Its remit was to cover the growing sexploitation film industry, though it also covered mainstream films of a sexual nature and movie stars who appeared in racy films.

By 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued on a sporadic basis for the next three decades, covering the increasingly hard-core American adult film industry, as well as European and Japanese sexually-oriented movies.

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 its sister publication, Adam Film World Guide, was launched, which in turn, spawned an annual Directory of Adult Films starting in 1984.

January 1980 (Vol 7, No. 8)
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Contents:

– The Sensuous Detective – Carroll Baker – Tina Russell‘s comeback – Mystique – Fulfilling Young Cups – 3rd Annual Erotic Awards – Fantasy World – Tropic of Desire – Easy – Bad Girl

March 1980 (Vol 7, No. 9)
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Contents:

– Her Name Was Lisa – Jane Fonda – The erotic mystique of Dracula – Secrets Of A Willing Wife – Fulfilling Young Cups – The Ecstasy Girls – Sensational Janine – Hot Rackets – Does male nudity turn women on? – Mondo Nude

May 1980 (Vol 7, No. 10)
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Contents:

– Ecstasy Girls do New York – Lust In Old Tokyo – Romeo and Juliet – The life of Claudia Jennings – Gerard Damiano‘s Fantasy Island – Coed Fever – Clair Dia interview – Bon Appetit – Screwples – Summer Heat

July 1980 (Vol 7, No. 11)
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Contents:

– Chopstix – Suzanne Somers – Talk Dirty To Me – Mamie Van Doren – Sizzle – Sweet Captive – Sandi Foxxe interview – Angel in White – Budding of Brie – Summer School

September 1980 (Vol 7, No. 12)
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Contents:

– Candida Royalle interview – Britt Ekland – October Silk – Bad Girl – Nanci Blue – Italian sex films – Sensual Sanctuary – Female Athletes – Hot Legs – ‘F’

November 1980 (Vol 8, No. 1)
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Contents:

– Double Your Pleasure – Susan Anton – Insatiable – Ultra Flesh – Ms. Magnificent – Plato’s – The Movie – One day wonders in New York – Education of the Baroness – Exposed – G-String Geisha

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