The popular imagination has it that NYC in the 1970s was a sleazy place full of hookers and porno theaters and creepy guys in leisure suits and women in Twiggy-like dresses, all with bad hair, dancing to bad music, playing around with oils and lotions, and having lots of gross, pre-AIDS sex on circular water beds.
People today believe, back then, that our fair town was a den of hedonism and perversity. Woody Allen even speculated that most Americans thought New Yorkers were "pornographers."
They were right.
Before the Internet, those peddling "erotic services" in NYC had only two real places to advertise: at the back of free newspapers like the Village Voice or on late-night cable TV. That's right, there were actually TV ads created for massage parlors, hookers, and porno theaters.
This compilation of ads is almost like a parody of what people today think the sexual life of NYC was like back in the 1970s. It has to be seen (and heard) to be believed.
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