Retro Raunch Revisit

Today marks the 40th anniversary of INSATIABLE (1980) opening in XXX theaters. This film was the USA's top-selling adult video from 1980-82. Starring superstar Marilyn Chambers as a rich, pampered, bored & horny fashion model/heiress satisfying her wild d.t.f. unquenchable sexual appetite, this was her long-awaited xxx return after a 7yr absence (with her last film 1973's RESURRECTION OF EVE in which she again banged BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR co-star Johnnie Keyes). Chambers was the first major performer to do fisting and one such scene was heavily cut due to censorship. There's a quick 'Ivory Snow' detergent box scene as a playful wink of meta to her early modeling days, and her final moaning at the end is sampled in the Anthrax song 'Starting Up a Posse'. This was her first & only appearance with equally legendary co-star John Holmes. [He was reputed to be involved in the Jul 1981 'Wonderland Murders' in which 4 gang members who operated a Los Angeles drug house were killed in retaliation for having committed an earlier home invasion & armed robbery. Because of his association, Holmes hid out in Florida for 5 months until he was arrested then extradited back to L.A. to stand trial for murder. In Jun 1982 he was acquitted after 3 weeks in court (which also saw the first-ever use of videotape introduced as evidence). In his later years, he did some gay work, was involved with Greenpeace, and later contracted AIDS to which he kept his HIV-positive condition secret but continued in slimebucket fashion to have unprotected sex with unknowing women, and lying that his sickness was a result of colon cancer. Holmes died in Mar 1988]. INSATIABLE was followed by a sequel in 1984.