Not satisfied with corrupting the Earth with their filth, the porn-pushers are now attempting to punch a hole into the angelic realm and sexualize the beatific deities of heaven. I trace this preoccupation back to the sexploitation film Barbarella; in which the nude Jane Fonda has sex with a male angel. I have maintained that most contemporary pornography descended from the soft-core films of the late-1960s and early-70s. After that wall was breached, the queen of the so-called 70s jiggle shows, Charlie's Angels, became a teen hit with wide-eyed boys (including myself.) During the 80s and 90s, there were some bright spots with the likes of Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven and the series Touched by an Angel, which launched a short, but heavily New-Age influenced pop-culture obsession with all things angels. Since then, darkness reigns: adult entertainment has incorporated bastardized angel motifs into a porn lexicon that comes straight from hell.
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| Fra Angelico (15th Century) |
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| John Duncan (early-20th Century) |
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| It's A Wonderful Life (1946) |
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| The Bishop's Wife (1947) |
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| Barbarella (1968) |
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| Charlie's Angels (1970s) |
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| Touched By An Angel (1990s) |
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| Gay Porn Angel |
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| Victoria's Secret |