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For modern viewers, the video is a grainy, neon-soaked reminder that the fight for sex-positive spaces has long roots, and that joy and pleasure are, in themselves, forms of resistance.
The 1985 documentary is a landmark piece of feminist and LGBTQ+ filmmaking that captures a pivotal moment in the history of the sex-positive movement. Directed by Nan Kinney and Debi Sundahl , the video documents the first "Pussy Palace" event—a women-only strip club night held in San Francisco.
To embrace the "Palace 1985" lifestyle was to reject the 9-to-5 grind entirely.