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XXX is a popular label used on films to identify that it is a pornographic film, and contains explicitly sexual content. In the 1950’s in America, the X-rated label was developed to indicate that a film had explicit sexual and/or violent content. However, in the 1970’s, as pornography started booming and becoming more widely accepted, the porno industry began adding more X’s to their label for bragging rights, trying to tell potential viewers that their particular film was much more hardcore than a simple x-rated movie.
It started off with a double XX, which usually meant the film was sexually stimulating and contained penetration, but was nowhere near the hideousness of something like 2 Girls 1 Cup, or Brazilian fart porn. Before long, a third XXX was added, meant to warn/entice the viewers that their 1950’s notions of what sex is, were about to get blown out of the water. The first triple XXX films started showing babysitters getting plowed by the father AND the mother of the child she was babysitting, a common fetish for adult males between the 1950’s and 1980’s. Some of these films in the later part of the 1970’s, showed young female hippies getting bent over the back of a VW and penetrated from behind by an angry, aggressive police officer. Further still, the XXX films of the 1980’s often showed those infamous Ronald Reagan masks being adorned by muscular beefcakes who were busy getting even on their War on Drugs, throat fucking a heroine addict in an alleyway, or forcing two crack head sluts to sodomize each other with their crack pipe. This was perhaps the most popular XXX films ever got. As it turns out, American viewers also had a vendetta against drug users and hippies, because Reagan related porn in the 1980’s brought in a gross capitol of 1.2 million dollars by the end of the decade.
Today, XXX doesn’t really mean anything. Sure, it’s now officially recognized by the American Film Board and Censorship Boards as a legitimate label and film rating system, but to most viewers, if it doesn’t have a minimum of 3 X’s, then it’s not even worth watching anyway. Triple X films today can include snuff films where people actually get murdered, bestiality porn where a women gets raped by a pig (c’mon, we’ve all seen that video), or even more controversial, the infamous gang rape scenario where a young impressionable blond gets throat fucked by 9 dudes at the same time, insisting that she enjoys every minute of it (really? you enjoyed that? You had a puddle of tears bigger than the giant pile of cum and drool dripping from your chin).
Whatever the content, as long as it’s sexual, violent, or a combination of the two, it’ll have three large X’s slapped on the cover. Until we come up with a new rating system, or an even more hardcore type of porn, XXX is the only way to go.
1. When I was a kid, my Dad used to buy XXX movies and always hid them in a brown paper bag. One day I snuck into his office and found them. I don’t remember what they were about, but I know there were a lot of beards covered in white sticky stuff.
2. If a film isn’t rated with XXX, then it’s not really worth watching. Unless it’s a Snuff film. Sometimes those don’t even have ratings.
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