Pornology

A timeline on pornography in the United States  (continued)

1967 - Executive Order 11375 expands President Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action policy of 1965 to cover discrimination based on gender

1967 - Two movies are released containing the word "fuck": Ulysses and I'll Never Forget What's'isname

October 1967 - The US Congress votes in favor of the creation of a Commission on Pornography and Obscenity

Oct. 17, 1967 - Hair premieres on Broadway

Nov. 13, 1967 - "Anything Goes: Taboos in Twilight," an article about how society had lost its consensus on major moral issues, like pre-marital sex, birth control, and sex education, is published

1968 - Russ Meyer's Vixen, a soft-core film known as the first "nudie" to show sexual acts, debuts

Linda Boreman graduates from Marina Regina, a Catholic high school

1968 - Lyndon Johnson appoints Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

1968 - Damiano's Changes is released. Damiano said of the film, "Changes was a pure documentary about the sexual life style, which was a film about the people engaged in various forms of the new freedom, but had no sex in and of itself, if I make myself clear, it was about sex but it had no sex in it." Some time later, some explicit scenes were added and it became known as All About Blank

April 1968 - Judge Joel Tyler is named criminal court judge by Mayor John Lindsay. Prior to this, he was a license commissioner

May 1968 - Swedish import I Am Curious (Yellow) is seized by New York customs officials.  It is ruled obscene because it includes an erection and full frontal nudity, both male and female. The Court of Appeals overturns the ruling, calling it an "intellectual effort"

1968 - Robert Kennedy announces candidacy for presidency. President Johnson renounces bid for re-election

April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr assassinated

April 23, 1968 - Columbia University shut down by student strike

April 26, 1968 - NYU International students and faculty strike to bring troops home

June 4, 1968 - Robert Kennedy assassinated

August 19-25, 1968 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia while anti-war protesters and police battle in Chicago during Democratic National Convention

September 1968 - Miss America protest in Atlantic City. This event is credited as being the first media event to bring national attention to the emerging Women's Liberation Movement

September 1968 - Screw magazine founded

Sept. 19, 1968 - The Continental Baths opens for business

Oct. 30, 1968 - Youth International Party sponsors a "Come Curse Nixon" demonstration in Washington Square Park

Nov. 1, 1968 - Motion Picture Association of America institutes its rating system

November 1968 - Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey by the thinnest margin in history

(to be continued)

- Ashley York