After the stock market crash of 1929, Hollywood and the entire country(U.S.A) was living a crisis.
many theaters started showing double features and reduced prices. Some theaters did bingo games , but the depression stills there , they need something and the solution for the films industry was adding sex’s scenes.
The first sex movie was “Why don't you come up and see me sometime?“ with Mae West.
All the boys were in love with her because she was voluptuous and had a provocative line.
The film industry ignored the hayes code because the only solution to be out from this crisis was making all the things that the hayes code provided ( kisses,sex,forbidden words,etc)
That’s why sex saved Hollywood.
It was incredible. Why? Because did not affect film industry. People were in a bad situation then one of the ways of exit of it was watch movies so for it not was a weakness.
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