Is "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" a porn movie?

I, too, saw BCT&A when it first came out. It's about a couple who decides that having affairs is good for their marriage, and they try to encourage another couple to engage in wife-swapping. There is no nudity and no bad language.It was given an R rating in a different time. Today an R rating is a death sentence for a movie, but back then R movies were popular. They were popular because they were good movies that today would be given a PG-13 rating. It was not that many years before BCT&A that WOR radio in New York was sanctioned by the FCC for using the word pregnant on the air. Take the times into account. You'll see far worse on MTV today.Also, even today an R rating is not porn. Porn is X. And even some X movies are not porn.The best way to tell that BCT&A isn't porn? Since it's easily available at Blockbuster, find out how many 13-year old boys are renting it. I bet the number is close to 0.BCT&A is porn! Sheesh! Even the Bible's got worse.--Percy

I don't think so. Anyone attempting to sell BCT&A as soft porn would be forced to return people's money. This picture is from the final scene: Before climbing into bed the girls walk around for a bit in underwear that is more like bathing suits, and that's about as good (or bad, depending upon your perspective) as it gets.It was titillating in 1969 and rated R.It isn't porn.It isn't soft porn.It's a PG-13 movie.Watch this movie yourself if you don't believe it. Reading the comments over at IMDB, a lot of people seem to think it has held up to the passage of time rather well.--Percy

Oh, you're right! I had no idea I had seen so many porn movies. Easy Rider, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Love in Blume, Red Sky at Morning, Midnight Cowboy, not to mention The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, Animal House and the Woodstock documentary, which could only be classified as hard porn! The list just goes on and on.I had no idea I was so prurient! My wife doesn't like porn, wait'll I tell her that some of her favorite movies are porn!--Percy

Interesting - I guess I'm special!You can see it at IMDb | Help.AbE: I think I know what is happening. Once I'd viewed the original page at IMDB, that image was in my cache, so when I displayed the image by itself it was fetched successfully from my cache. I think that if you view the original page by clicking on the above link and then refresh this page that you'll see the image in my message.--PercyEdited by Percy, : Added a comment.

But given the topic, the relevant question is whether you and Alice understand that BCT&A is neither porn nor soft-porn, and if so, can you explain it to Bob?--Percy

Hi BobAliceEve,You seem to be confused about who wrote what. Crash didn't write the excerpt below, I did: The movie is a lot more complex than just being about affairs and wife-swapping. And the ending is a discouragement of wife-swapping, characterizing it as an empty and soulless search for gratification at the expense of true human feelings. But even if it didn't end that way, it still wouldn't be porn.You sure have a lot of opinions about a movie you haven't seen. If BCT&A is porn simply because of subject matter, then aren't all movies where a spouse cheats on a mate and or where there is sex outside of marriage or where a woman's breasts are shown porn? In your view aren't most movies porn? Consider these passages from the Bible: Care to reconsider your definition of porn?Could we talk to Alice and Eve some more? They were a lot more fun. By the way, did you see this week's Psych?--Percy