\n
![](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bd75d02790794f9aae5dfc0c18bb8905147cd9ae\/0_0_2120_1272\/master\/2120.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0784075d51e4c5db192b639b0b9b6620\" "\\"The")
It featured an erect penis, and could be bought on the high street. The groundbreaking film changed attitudes to sex and censorship \u2013 paving the way to the Pornhub era<\/p>\nThe second sexual revolution began 30 years ago, on 23 September 1991, with the release of an educational videotape called The Lovers\u2019 Guide. The revolution\u2019s unlikely figureheads were a film producer who had been making how-to videos about gardening and pets and cooking, and a 56-year-old doctor, while their ally was an American former TV and theatre director who had become Britain\u2019s chief film censor.
\nThe producer was a man called Robert Page, who had been approached by Virgin \u2013 which had recently started making condoms \u2013 to make a sexual health film for men that explained how to use one. There were two difficulties with that. The first was that no erect penis had been shown on screen in Britain. The second was that Page had no interest in making a film about penises. The censor \u2013 James Ferman, the director of the British Board of Film Classification from 1975 to 1999 \u2013 took care of the first issue. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It featured an erect penis, and could be bought on the high street. The groundbreaking film changed attitudes to sex and censorship \u2013 paving the way to the Pornhub era The second sexual revolution began 30 years ago, on 23 September 1991, with the release of an educational videotape called The Lovers\u2019 Guide. The revolution\u2019s …<\/p>\n