Corinne Cartier in Sylvia im Reich der Wollust (1977)

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Published in 1973, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying is an uninhibited novel about unbridled feminism; made five years later, the German film Sylvia im Reich der Wollust (1977) pays cheeky homage to Jong’s book, with an English-language title that references it—The Joy of Flying. No hand-wringing meditation on sex and love, Franz Josef Gottlieb’s flick revels in raunchiness by treating a slew of slender actresses to vignettes involving bubble baths, underwear parties, and enthusiastic sex sessions. Corinne Cartier, Olivia Pascal, Betty Vergès, and Ajita Wilson are the goddesses who attend this particular skin shebang.