Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley MetzgerRadley Metzger was one of the foremost directors of adult film in America, with credits including softcore titles like The Lickerish Quartet and the hardcore classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven. After getting his start making arthouse trailers for Janus Films, Metzger would go on to become among the most feted directors of the porno chic era of the 1970s, working under the pseudonym Henry Paris. In the process, he produced a body of work that

garment-dyed fabric Twill taped shoulder-to-shoulder

and Nick's ghost has come home

Until that family needs to again lean on him

Raffy is after the perfect comeback

Born in Belgium

Imbuing reality with the magic of a dark fairy tale

as The Monkey's Paw famously asked

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alyson Pubns

benevolent funhouse mirror

and he’s perfectly okay with that

Divorced and in his forties

created some of the most legendary erotic imagery of his day