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By Adder Lovelace

Updated 18 March 2023

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1975 film by Radley Metzger

The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann

Released	1975 (47 years, 9 months ago)

Director	Radley Metzger
Genre	Porno
Composer	Robert Rochester
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	Radley Metzger

About The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann

The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann is a 1974 American adult film starring Barbara Bourbon and directed by Radley Metzger (as "Henry Paris") that is considered one of the classics of the Golden Age of Porn. It was a step forward in the development of the genre, as it had a plot and good acting. The movie can be seen as a meditation on voyeurism, due to the trope of Mann being spied on by a private detective hired by her husband, and the production of pornography itself, as the detective films her sexual encounters.

Porn film star Bill Margold, who went on to be the director of the Free Speech Coalition, has written that "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann signals an end to the all-balling, no purpose, disposable mastur-movies that go into one orifice and out another.” Filmed in Manhattan, the movie was released in New York City on December 26, 1974 and was nationally distributed in 1975. The film has been inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame.