Nixon-era fornicators at the Fox

A title card at the beginning thanks the “humanitarians and concerned professionals” who allegedly contributed to this rogue, XXX mondo film, not that Refinements in Love has any real interest in educating its viewers. For instance, and this might be a shot in the dark, but I suspect that isn’t a real psychiatrist “clinically” demonstrating how to bring a (supplicant, possibly drugged, maybe hypnotized) woman to orgasm.

As it turns out, the refinements under discussion here include talcum powder, baby oil, and—get this!—alcohol. Refinements in Love was made in 1971, long after the invention of both wine and love according to my history books, so let’s just assume that smut auteur Carlos Tobalina (who appears onscreen) was satisfied with hanging one of his earliest hardcore efforts on a laughably thin reed.  

Leaving us, of course, with lots of plunging, thrusting, and sometimes dangling ‘70s genitalia to illustrate all that pseudo-expert anthropology (amazing fact: a man in his 50s can and presumably should ejaculate three times a day!) Grindhouse icon Rene Bond (with a stunt vagina for inserts) is the talcum powder lady, while Mickey Cohen’s old girlfriend and future John Waters star Liz Renay hosts.

In a much more real sense, porn archeologist Dimitrios Otis and Cinema Sewer’s Robin Bougie will be on hand to talk about this relic of Nixon-era fornication when Refinements of Love returns to its natural habitat at the Fox—where it was discovered by Otis in the early 2000s—tonight (May 28).