The film, at its core, shows how a woman is rejected from everything, society, employers, and even her husband for allegedly not being good enough, and the first time she finally does something she wants, she's overcome with guilt and shame. However, one can look at this film as a sensitive portrayal of the desperate measures people can go to in order to combat their own loneliness. One can easily look at the incest angle, view the mother/son sex scenes as deplorable, and find this film uncommonly offensive. Amazingly, Taboo was written by a woman named Helene Terrie, which could very well explain the film's sensitive angle. She finds Paul sleeping in the nude and, overcome with hormones, prolonged feelings of loneliness, and inferiority, she gives him a fellatio, which leads into a passionate sex scene between the two for about five minutes. Despite persistent encouragement, and even after being manhandled, she refused to participate and returns home unbelievably horny. One day, Barbara comes home from an orgy she was taken to by a date. ![]() Her character's conservative attitude and mannerisms throughout the film only work to assist this attractiveness. Parker is a universally appealing woman here, as not only is she a believable screen presence, but she can turn on the horny teenage boy and the seasoned porn veteran with just a few winks and a hip thrust. Barbara is built beautifully, with a knockout figure complete with round hips and gorgeous brown hair. One particularly arousing scene comes when Paul is staring at his mother while she showers and subsequently dresses in lingerie and stockings underneath her evening attire. Ever since his father's departure, however, Paul sees himself growing more and more sexually attracted to his mother. Meanwhile, Barbara's only son Paul (Mike Ranger) spends most of his time with his girlfriend Sherrie (Dorothy LeMay), who loves having sex with him. However, because she's approaching middle-age, she is immediately unattractive to a great deal of employers, yet still manages to land a secretary job with a perverted boss. This leaves Barbara crushed and without financial support, forcing her to go out in the working world to find a job. We focus on Barbara, played by the beautiful Kay Parker, who's husband walks out on her in the opening scene of the film following stiff sex and a continuing downward spiral in their marriage. Taboo tackles the subject in perhaps the most relaxed, classy, and sexiest manner, also catering to the "mature/MILF" subsector of porn before the two were even largely recognized as genres within pornography. ![]() Incest is always a curious subject, even moreso due to its lack of exploration on film, because of the fact that it's a largely forbidden, condemned act that still results in pleasure for both parties (if they are consenting, of course). ![]() Taboo is a landmark in porn, not only still a part of the tailend of The Golden Age of Porn, but one that could very well be considered an early American, feature-length porn film focusing on a fetish, in this case, mother/son incest. Played with great aplomb by the wonderful Juliet Anderson, she provides an amusing and erotic counterpoint to the main story. Stevens' skills are matched by those of his partner Helene Terrie whose excellent script includes some really funny dialogue, mainly for Barbara's wacky and outrageous confidante Gina who eats, breathes and sleeps sex. Kirdy Stevens clearly went to considerable pains with every aspect of the film and its successors and brings maximum intensity to the sex scenes, not least the two between Barbara's son Mike Ranger and girlfriend Dorothy Le May, one in which they're joined by her friend Tawny Pearl. Thoroughly sensual, but never remotely sleazy, she became on the strength of this portrayal the most renowned British born porn actress, except ironically in her native country where censorship prevented it from being widely shown. The stunning Kay Parker is unforgettable as the frustrated and finally incestuous mother Barbara Scott, bringing an integrity to her role that is rare in this genre. Deservedly regarded as one of the best movies of Porn's 'Golden Age', TABOO excels in every department.
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