Adam Film World in 1976: An Issue by Issue Guide

We look back at the west coast publication Adam Film World by re-publishing all the issues published in 1976.

These issues include a series of articles on the snuff film phenomenon, profiles of American sex films such as The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), Defiance (1975), The Story of Joanna (1975), and Screw on the Screen (1975); foreign sex films such as The Story of O (1975) and Sensations (1975); profiles of Harry Reems and Amber Hunt, and much more.

Fully digitized copies of each 1976 magazine can be found below. You can find The Rialto Report’s growing collection of digitized resources by choosing Library in our site menu. 

Click on the covers below to access the full magazines. Due to the fact that the magazines are scanned in high definition, allow time for each page to load. If you are viewing on a phone, view in landscape orientation.

Magazines are fully searchable; use the icon displayed in each magazine to search by keyword.

Publications are being shared here purely for the purpose of research. They should not to be used or reproduced for any commercial gain.

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Adam Film World: The Complete 1976 Issues

January 1976 (Vol 5, No. 8)
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Contents:

– Foreign films including: Naughty School Girls (Japan), The School Girls (Germany), Confessions of a Window Cleaner (Britain) – How to be a porn star, part 1 – American films including: Frankie and Johnnie Were Lovers, Black Starlet, Sandstone, High School Honies, All Night Long, The Curious Woman, Defiance – The porn awards contest – Horny Harry Reems – Porn potpourri – Violence plus: screen sadism – Sex therapist to the stars – The KISS principle – Porn stars tell all: erotobiography – All time favorite porn film hits

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February 1976 (Vol 5, No. 9)
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Contents:

– American films including: The Orgy at Raquel’s Pad, The Black Widow’s Nest (Tapestry of Passion), Love, Lust, and Violence, Escape to Passion, Screw on the Screen – Those bad Black superchicks – The porn awards contest – Foreign films including: Castle Rhapsodies, Decamerone Proibito – Interview: Candy and Bob – The rating game: film standards – Roger Vadim‘s sex recipe – How to be a porn star, part two – Requiem for the sex symbol – From the roaring 20s to the swinging 60s – All-time favorite porn film hits

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April 1976 (Vol 5, No. 10)
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Contents:

– Foreign films including: A Peek Into the Geisha World, The Girl in the Via Condotti (Special Killers) – Frenchmen discover sex – American films including: Naked Afternoon, The Wife, Tongue, The Maids, Beneath the Mermaids, Six Women, The Kiss Off – A porn star tells all: by Bob Rose – A new frontier: porno films at home – The porn awards contest – The erotic cartoons festival – Are snuff films for real? – Great sex scenes – On the road with a porno queen: Linda Rene – Samurai porn – Lights, camera, and a lot of action – Confessions of a pop performer: Robin Askwith – All-time favorite porno film hits – The conversion of Amy, part one

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June 1976 (Vol 5, No. 11)
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Contents:

– Foreign films including: An Instant of Life, Sex in America, Sensations, Pleasure Sisters, The Story of O – The great “snuff” rip-off – Sex secrets of a sound stage script girl – American films including: A Star is Made, Mustang: The House That Joe Built, Love Secrets of the Kama Sutra, One Million AC/DC, Black Shampoo, Fantasy in Blue – The conversion of Amy, part two – The porn awards – Great sex scenes – Sex fantasies of the sex stars – Porno prop man – The foreign film scene – All-time favorite porno film hits

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August 1976 (Vol 5, No. 12)
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Contents:

– Foreign films including: Live and Enjoy, Birds, Orphans, and Fools, Dewdrops on the Petals, Seaside Hustler – The big bondage boom – American films including: 3AM, Judgement Day, Highway Hookers, The Cheerleaders, Saturday Night at the Baths, The Opening of Misty Beethoven – Down with snuff – The conversion of Amy, part three – Film World’s own porn awards – Great sex scenes – Would Linda Lovelace make a good president? – A day in a midwest porn factory – Foreign film scene – Erotic film checklist

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October 1976 (Vol 6, No. 1)
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Contents:

– Don’t cry for Amber Hunt – Foreign film scene – American films including: Female Chauvinists, Showdown, The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann – The Bergman touch: sick and sexy – Great sex scenes – Snapshots from The Story of Joanna – Sonny Chiba – the new Bruce Lee? – Sadism, Italian style – The conversion of Amy, conclusion – Erotic film checklist – An urgent appeal: Harry Reems – Private vices, public virtues – Those dirty directors

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December 1976 (Vol 6, No. 2)
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Contents:

– Rate me X: interview with Alan Bruce Colberg – Foreign film scene – American films including: The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Tower of Love, Fantasex – How Harry Reems got reamed – An unhappy interview with horny Harry Reems – Great sex scenes – Foreign films including: Emmanuelle 2, Teenage Abductors – Wanted: new porno queens – Profile: Alice in Wonderland – Howard Hughes and the big bosom boom – Video dating made my sex fantasies come true – Erotic film checklist – Porn potpourri – Bi-sextennial revue

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