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Sex Sells!

Chapter 9 - Movies of the 1980s: Erasing Sexual Taboos click on the images below for larger images

In Fatal Attraction, Michael Douglas plays a man who wants to put a short-term affair behind him while Glenn Close plays a woman who is not willing to be discarded.

Angie Dickinson is one of the two lead actresses in Dressed to Kill, a film that reviewers labeled Hollywood’s definitive work on the connection between sex and violence.