A shrink named Dr. Lee Gladden, who literally wrote the book on the subject we’re about to see, is our host for this expose on “the world’s changing sexual mores!” The Incredible Sex Revolution is sort of like a variation on the “white coater” genre where dramatizations of actual case studies are used, but it’s really just an excuse to get away with showing smut under the guises of “education”.
Writer/director Albert (Violated!) Zugsmith starts things off with a humorous flashback to Adam and Eve and sketches about the mating habits of Eskimos and shit before settling down to the meat of the story, which involves Dr. Gladden and his sessions with his new patient Peggy (Lovey Song). She tells him of her unhappy marriage to Aaron (Ronald Warren). He wants to spice things up and engage in wife swapping, but she resists. Peggy tells her troubles to a swinging neighbor (Sharon Cintron), who gives her some advice to help her let go of her inhibitions. Eventually, her experiences awaken a buried trauma in her past and Dr. Gladden helps to confront it.
At 102 minutes, The Incredible Sex Revolution is just too unwieldy for its own good. The sketches in the early going eat up a lot of screen time, and scenes with Gladden and Song in his office are dull. The melodrama concerning Song’s predicament is predictable too, but at least the party scenes are kind of fun. While they contain nothing especially “incredible” or “revolutionary”, they do offer up enough T & A to keep you watching.
The cast (most of whom also appeared in Zugsmith’s On Her Bed of Roses the same year) show up in multiple roles. Many will be familiar to exploitation fans. Alex (Horrors of Spider Island) D’Arcy plays Warren’s swinging boss, Faster Pussycat… Kill! Kill’s Lori Williams pops up in a bit part, and Orgy of the Dead’s Pat Barrington appears doing a topless headstand at a party. Oh, and co-star Hampton Fancher went on to write the screenplay for Blade Runner!
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