Retro Raunch Revisit

This month marks the 45th anniversary of SEX WORLD (1978) opening in XXX theaters. A spoof of the sci-fi WESTWORLD movies (and thus one of xxx's earliest parodies), a month before its Southern California premiere, the company that owned the Pussycat Theaters chain apparently won a lawsuit allowing them to have bus ads to promote the film's release. Starring Kay Parker, inspite of her already older age, this featured her first sex scene on screen. Within weeks, SEX WORLD was playing in Chicago, Washington,DC and New York. By year's end it had been shown "around the world" having run in Japan, Holland, Denmark and Sweden.