Midnight Cowboy was the first mainstream Hollywood movie to be rated X.
Yes it was-I was over 17 and went with a couple of cousins to see it-no way was I going there with a date-but a few years later, I did go to see Last Tango in Paris with Nemesis-and discovered I was not as worldly as I pretended-I was so absolutely mortified by some of the scenes that I wanted to run to the ladies’ room...