FHM US May 2004

‘IT’S ART, WOMAN!’

Critics agree: Collecting smut posters makes you cultured

For Dad, porn meant shuffling in a cinema while trying not to soil his raincoat. At least the posters were arty. A new book, X-Rated Collection: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s, collects 150 classics. FHM asked Tod Tarhan, the designer of posters for Pulp Fiction and Swingers, for an appraisal.

‘This work is groundbreaking’, Tarhan confirms. ‘Indeed, it has laid the foundations for many
mainstream posters of today’, So, if your girlfriend doesn’t like them, that’s what to tell her.