title: The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-rated Movies
author:  Kevin S. Sandler 
description: "This compelling book challenges received wisdom about how the ratings system evolved and operates. It contradicts all the hype one otherwise encounters on this important subject." -- <i>Matthew Bernstein, author of Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era</i>
zlib_text: The Naked Truth
  5
  
  Kevin S. Sandler
  Why Hollywood Doesn’t Make 
  X-Rated Movies
  The Naked Truth
  rutgers university press
  new brunswick, new jersey and london
  5
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Sandler, Kevin S., 1969–
  The naked truth : why Hollywood doesn’t make X-rated movies / Kevin S. Sandler.
  p.
  cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4088-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4089-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. Motion pictures—Ratings—United States.
  2. Sex in motion pictures.
  I. Title.
  PN1993.5.U6S23
  2007
  384.'84—dc22
  2006032341
  A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the 
  British Library.
  Copyright © 2007 by Kevin S. Sandler
  All rights reserved
  No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, elec-
  tronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without writ-
  ten permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 