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The Secret History Of Hollywood

Sex In Monochrome

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Tv & Film, Film History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Many do not realise, but sex has been a part of cinema since the very beginning... In this special series, hear all about how film makers first celebrated, then did all they could to cleverly disguise sex and sexuality during the lawless days of early cinema, and on through the "Pre-Code" era, when the rules were markedly different... To unlock this entire series, as well as every other story in The Secret History Of Hollywood simply go to https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:08.8

Not much to it, is there?

0:10.8

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:15.5

Mmm, that is good.

0:17.5

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:20.4

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:23.5

Delicious.

0:24.7

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0:32.1

forward slash Atterboy's Secret or follow the link in the show notes of this episode.

0:40.4

In 1934, the Hollywood industry was fitted with a pair of handcuffs.

0:49.3

For decades, American movies had run riot, bringing audiences' dreams and fantasies to life for

0:55.6

the screen, however wholesome, or however sordid.

1:03.8

To modern audiences, early cinema is often seen as quaint, non-threatening, unadventurous, innocent.

1:12.3

But the cinema of the 1930s and 1940s tenderly refer to nowadays as Hollywood's golden age

1:19.1

was built on the bones of another generation of cinema, an era of films and filmmaking

1:25.0

that for almost half a century, the censors tried to suppress.

1:29.8

Lads and lasses, forget your dancing classes, forget your old professors while you take a bit of

1:37.7

advice. A free-spirited time where Hollywood's imagination ran free, and anything was permitted.

1:48.4

Many people think that sex in cinema is a relatively new innovation, beginning in the

1:53.7

permissive 60s and exploding in the hedonistic 70s. But while sex certainly became more

1:59.6

explicit later on, it had been a part of cinema from the

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