Virtually from the moment the fighting stopped, erotic takes on World War II became a mainstay of cheap porn paperbacks and lowbrow sexploitation movies.

Those boundaries (among others) expanded with the heady, high-class art film The Night Porter, which opened in theaters on this date in 1974.

Charlotte Rampling stars as a concentration camp survivor who comes across Dirk Bogarde as the commandante who once kept her as a sexual slave. Now he’s working in the lowly job of the title at a Vienna Hotel.

Rather than turn her former Nazi tormentor in, though, Charlotte revives their kinky relationship, and The Night Porter pushes cinema into areas that are as uncomfortable as they are arousing.

Controversy flared up around The Night Porter upon its release. Three-decades-plus later, it continues to provoke thoughts both intellectual and … otherwise. more…

Flesh-Happy Filmmaker Tinto Brass's Sex-Soaked Nazi Brothel Drama Salon Kitty Gets the Special Edition DVD Treatment on This Date in 2003.

The magnificent grindhouse archaeologists at Blue Underground, who had previously issued vintage skin classics such as Emanuelle in America and Eugenie
... The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion, outdid themselves by releasing a double-disc DVD special edition of erotic maestro Tinto Brass's lavish Third Reich brothel drama, Salon Kitty.

Aside from being the classiest product of the bizarre, only-in-the-'70s Nazisploitation subgenre (which includes Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, Love Camp 7, and SS Experiment), Salon Kitty nabbed Brass the job of directing Caligula, for which he brought along leading lady Teresa Ann Savoy.

Salon Kitty contains scenes of sweeping female nudity along with joltingly perverted kinks -- and we thank Blue Underground for doing this overstuffed cavalcade of arousing atrocities right.

To see just exactly what might be depicted in the above photo, as well as for a Der Furry look at full-frontal Teresa Ann Savoy, click and jump. more…