Porn Was Born in San Francisco

San Francisco filmmakers Michael Stabile (formerly the founding editor of The Sword) and Ben Leon (formerly of Raging Stallion Studios) just made a documentary short that they're pimping to the festival circuit called The Smut Capital of America. San Francisco, you see, was the birthplace of hardcore pornography, and during the brief, shining moment of 1968 to 1972, porn theaters blossomed all over the city as downtrodden movie houses, already in decline from their post-war heyday, flipped over and became porn theaters, both gay and straight. California Senator Dianne Fienstein launched her political career and got elected to the Board of Supervisors (later becoming Mayor after the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk) on an anti-porn platform, crusading against the smut that was infiltrating every corner of San Francisco.

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