much like "sexploitation noir," a phrase coined by
New York Times contributor, Richard Perez, in describing a dark sub genre of sexploitation, often exemplified by the BDSM inclined socalled "sleaze" paperbacks or pulps of the 1960s and the stag-like "roughies" or violence inclined preporn "adult" films, (also called "gothics" or "psychosexual" films" or "sexploitation cautionary tales") often distributed by
Something Weird Video and exemplified by Perez's own, "
Permanent Obscurity: Or A Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death."