Perversion for Profit: Pornography and the Decline of Western Civilization (1/2) (1965)

1965 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PWA850?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full film: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/10/perversion-for-profit-1965.html

Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against pornography, the film attempts to link explicit portrayals of human sexuality to the subversion of American civilization, and briefly draws a parallel between pornography and the Communist conspiracy. The film is in the public domain, and it has become a popular download from the Prelinger Archives. Perversion for Profit illustrates its claims with still images taken from various soft core pornography magazines of the period, though with some portions of human anatomy obscured by colored rectangles.

To bolster his position, Putnam makes a reference to "Dr. Sorokin, the renowned Harvard sociologist". This individual is Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American who founded Harvard's Sociology department and served as the American Sociological Association's 55th president.

In an article discussing the Prelinger Archives for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter L. Stein observes that the film has gained a different sort of utility than its producers intended: ...as the parade of girlie magazine covers, men's physique pictorials and campy S&M leaflets continues, the film betrays a kind of prurience the filmmakers could hardly have intended. What results is a remarkable visual record of midcentury underground literature and sexual appetites, and a gloss on the values of the society that condemned them.

At the time the Chronicle article was written, Perversion was the Archive's second most popular download, superseded only by Duck and Cover. Ephemeral film scholar Rick Prelinger, founder of the Archive, views the popularity of such films as a sign the "unofficial evidence of everyday life" has become more interesting than "'official' documents from Washington or New York".

Quotations * "Now, you might ask yourself 'Why this sudden concern? Pornography and sex deviation have always been with mankind.' This is true. But, now, consider another fact: never in the history of the world have the merchants of obscenity, the teachers of unnatural sex acts, had available to them the modern facilities for disseminating this filth. High-speed presses, rapid transportation, mass distribution: all have combined to put the vilest obscenity within reach of every man, woman, and child in the country."—George Putnam, narrator. * "This same type of rot and decay caused sixteen of the nineteen major civilizations to vanish from the Earth. Magnificent Egypt, classical Greece, imperial Rome, all crumbled away not because of the strength of the aggressor, but because of moral decay from within. But we are in a unique position to cure our own ills: our Constitution was written by men who put their trust in God and founded a government based in His laws. These laws are on our side. We have a constitutional guarantee of protection against obscenity. And, in this day especially, we must seek to deliver ourselves from this twisting, torturing evil. We must save our nation from decay and deliver our children from the horrors of perversion. We must make our land, 'the land of the free', a safe home. O God, deliver us, Americans, from evil."—George Putnam, narrator (closing words). * "This moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the communist masters of deceit."—George Putnam, narrator.

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[highway234]

these photographs of nubile, oiled, wet and randy perfidious young women, brazenly flashing their jiggling breasts and nude, quivering thighs as they part their moist, juicy lips in a come-hither look suggesting the most unnatural acts of filthy forbidden oral pleasure, these muscular, well-endowed men with their rippling pecs, enveloping, mighty biceps and rugged legs like sturdy oaks, so arousing you can smell the musk rising from every page... these publications might make YOU a pervert!

[pranabelly]

does this mean I have to stop spanking my boyfriend?

[evelsteev]

@JNathanK2011 Show me evidence that "jerking off more" makes someone "devoid" of life. It's PART of life. You're talking about "excess." I was referring to the mere act.

But I have hard evidence of things that ARE devoid of life: murder, rape, war, genocide, etc. Jerking off, is hardly in this category.

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

[JNathanK2011]

@evelsteev Well, there's meeting basic necessities, but once those are met, there's all forms of discovery to be had, personal and collective. If our only objective in a society of abundance is to eat more, consume more, and jerk off more, were living a very pointless existence, devoid of any virtue.

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

-Socrates

[evelsteev]

@JNathanK2011 nah, it's just catering to natural, biological impulses. You know, like eating, sleeping. LOL

[JNathanK2011]

Its not really communist or capitalist masters of deceit. I think its more of a generally totalitarian conspiracy, and different political ideologies are used to justify it. The Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and Morgans are at the head of it. They want to promote pornography and masturbation, among other things, to encourage passivity, nihilism, and shame. Its all about sapping morale from the populous to make us easier to control.

[JNathanK2011]

@SoFarFromGeneric I think basically the laws of nature and everyone and everything subject to it is all the imagination of God. There's a golden path, which we can stray from, but if we live our lives in accordance to it, in accordance to divine love, we can magnify and glorify God.

[NeverSeenAsaskatoon]

Now I know where rick Perry gets his views from... ))

[SoFarFromGeneric]

@genuinewordofmouth My faith is in the god of the christian bible. For the first time I read all of proverbs about 4 months ago. It's all true. There is a creator/architect of all. To say there is no god is like saying a painting has no artist. Every stroke is designed to create a masterpeice. Our bodys, solar system, galaxy, universe. All have a design. All these ancient texts hold true. Our creator set upon us laws. When these laws are ignored society will collapse. Fools cannot see this.

[genuinewordofmouth]

There is a True and Living God and we are accountable to our acts. Make jokes about these videos, try to discredit them, or seek every kind of justification but every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ. To say there is no God is to say there is no law and no devil either and if they are not, we are not. Those who commit these perversions are unto themselves their own God, they worship themselves and seek to kill all people who cause them to doubt their lifestyle.

[Freya5000]

omg !! listen to this, ...decembinating filth !! pure filth..

[jesus7es7dios7]

God never approved perversion... Did he? God always castigated perversion...Look at sodome and ghommore.... what do you think will happen to this new world? Particularly, The U.S.?

What a perverted and al-together perverse generation.... These pages of humanity will too be burned... those dollar bills will also be burned one day.... You have only one way out.... JESUS.