The film "Emmanuelle" was released half a century ago in Paris. Just Jaeckin's film, with Sylvia Kristel as the protagonist, referred to another level of intensity.
It was in our country and in many others (here, some got private screenings or crossed to the cinemas in Uruguay, just as the Spaniards still did in Franco's time to Paris). In France, where the conservative Valery Giscard d'Estaign had won the elections against the socialist Francois Mitterand, censorship was swept away.