She Shoulda Said 'No'! Taking its lead from Reefer Madness, and other marijuana morality tales including Assassin of Youth and Road to Ruin, 1949's She Shoulda Said 'No'! combined themes of marijuana psychosis and sexual promiscuity. After some initial harmless fun, cannabis use invariably causes the protagonist to lose her job, become a drug dealer and turn into a total slut. Clearly, she shoulda said "no."
Sex Madness What could possibly be better than Reefer Madness? You guessed it: Sex Madness! Supposedly intended to warn teens and young adults of the dangers of syphilis and other venereal diseases, the 1938 film mostly just showed a lot of skin, including lesbianism and wild sex parties, using its educational pretense to skirt contemporary obscenity codes.
Mom and Dad One of the most famous sex hygiene films, sadly almost impossible to find in video form on these vast internets, 1945's Mom and Dad also used its supposed educational value to avoid censorship. The Swedish film raises good questions about sex education -- and also features graphic images of female anatomy and footage of live births.The Big Cube Warner Bros. put the full weight of a major studio behind this anti-counterculture movie, which debuted in 1969. Staring Lana Turner in one of her final roles, the Big Cube aggressively depicted 1960s counterculture and its use of LSD as insidious evils. One can only guess how many hippies went to see it on acid.
Child Bride What's even more terrifying than LSD? Cradle-robbing hillbillies, that's what! This 1938 film portrayed toothless yokels from the Ozarks and their twelve-year-old brides. And it did so, of course, to draw attention to the lack of laws banning child marriage in backwoods states. It also featured a controversial skinny-dipping scene depicting twelve-year-old actress Shirley Mills.
