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TIL that Behind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first pornographic films to feature sex between a white actress (Marilyn Chambers) with a black actor (Johnnie Keyes). The porn industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man.

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