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Inside the Golden Age of Porn
Allie Rowbottom explores the lives of the women who became icons of 1980s Los Angeles’s adult film industry.
Is porn empowering? Is it a scourge? And either way: Was it better in the ’80s?
In this episode, Suzy Weiss and Dan Ahdoot sit down with writer Allie Rowbottom to dig into her new novel, Lovers XXX, set in the cocaine-fueled “golden age” of Los Angeles’s adult film industry. They discuss the evolution of pornography from VHS tapes to OnlyFans and why fem…
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