1. For the availability of this and other such tapes, see Meredith (1982). Similar material, which is sometimes advertised in magazines devoted to X-rated video, is referenced in Eder (1986).

2. For a humorous account of the stress of these demands on the pornographic film actor, see Gray (1985).

3. The possibility of imagining such a utopian promiscuity is, of course, severely circumscribed by external conditions; in this case, what developments in birth control in the late sixties made possible was abruptly terminated in the mid-eighties by AIDS.

4. Flipside Video Fanzines are available from PO Box 363, Whittier, California 90608. For a subsequent similar project, see Suburban Relapse Fanzine , POB 404825, Brooklyn, New York 11240. For an overview of punk fanzines in Los Angeles, see James (1984). For accounts of punk film-making, see Boddy (1981) and Buchsbaum (1981).

5. The violence of the Los Angeles Police Department is widely documented; see, for example, McCartney (1983) and Stark (1986). A collection of mid-eighties anti-police songs from Southern California was assembled as The Sound of Hollywood: 3: Copulation (Mystic Records, MLP 33128).

6. In their fundamental narcissism, their greater emphasis on the profilmic event and less on its subsequent observation by the spectator, these tapes document extreme instances of the first two components ( Partialtrieb ) within the sex instinct, the desire of making oneself seen and the desire of making oneself heard. Lacan (1977: 194-95) proposes that in the former the subject " looks at himself [sic] . . . in his erotic member " and that this delight is the "root" of the scopic drive as a whole.

7. This project has, however, been initiated in Houston (1984).