Retro Porn Classics: Taboo 1, 1980

Ah, the Oedipal classic that started a series that would last for 27 more films, all the way up until the last; Taboo 23, 2007. Taboo holds a special place in my heart of naughty hearts, because it was the first porn movie I ever saw. Oh, the heady days of youth; long before catching glimpses of the raunchy movies on channel 98 between wavy lines of  cable interference, there were the movies under your friend’s parents’ bed.

Although there had been numerous films by 1980 that explored incest fantasy, and of course, publications and other erotic media, full length adult films on the topic were few and far between. Several comments on the film declare Taboo to be the porno that set standards for the rest of adult movies. It was and still is, one of the top earning adult films of all time.

Taboo explored the topic of mother/son incest better than any cheesy Japanese cartoon you’ll ever see. The story (yes, a story, that’s how old this porno is, there is actually a storyline!) follows adult actress Kay Parker, playing the newly single Barbara Scott, whose husband just left her for his secretary because of her prudish bedroom ways. Their son decides to stay with his “not over the hill” mother. The two inevitably begin to screw, but towards the end of the film, things get complicated when Barb gets a new boyfriend. Dun dun dun! The film is still available, in all its glorious sleaze, and even the infamous Ron Jeremy is supposed to have a cameo. Though sources differ, so if you can find him in there, do tell.

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