Say what you want about Alex de Renzy, but he had a recognizable style in the 70s adult industry. The filmmaker was well known for not shying away from kinky, weird or disturbing stuff in a time when it wasn’t the norm. While other directors were a little more standard when it came to showing sex on screen, he always had an eye for a fully open taboo exploration.

While the Femmes de Sade title would suggest a different story, the movie actually centers around the life of two very different men in the swinging 70s. Johnny (John Leslie) is a clerk at a sex shop whose fantasies constantly blend with reality. Johnny’s happy; he’s got a job he enjoys, a prostitute girlfriend whose hot friends/co-workers always hang at the store, and a penchant for the interesting sex parties that San Francisco’s nightlife can offer him.

On the opposite side of the spectrum there’s Rocky de Sade (played by the inexplicably seldom used actor Ken Turner, a pretty intimidating, gigantic dude that came out of San Quentin’s prison, and apparently was very eager to make up for lost time with the ladies. Whether they were into his kinks was not something that worried Rocky, so he raped his way with every prostitute he could find.

Johnny’s whole gig got him in situations where dozing off into sexual fantasies was totally doable — even if it made the service a little slower. Depending on what the costumers were into, Johnny would daydream away into his own little world, where extremely moist gangbangs and mildly racist Asian stereotypes were exploited in what surely seems like quite a leisurely life.

Rocky’s existence was much darker and his tone was always rough and mean, which is not to say he couldn’t surprise you: After getting frustrated at a prostitute’s lackluster blowjob, Rocky decided to take the matter into his own… mouth! Watching this self-fellating giant was a bit of shocker, especially for someone of that height. The scene didn’t add anything to the plot, but it would seem pretty wasteful to have this skill and not use it on screen!

The film has several hot sex scenes, and it features good (albeit short) performances from legendary porn starlets like Annette Haven and Desiree West. Most of the girls played hookers.

A friend of Johnny’s was organizing a party, appropriately named “Blood and Mother’s Milk”, which promised to contain all the things you’d expect from a kinky Bay Area orgy. What he wasn’t expecting was Rocky, at the time a costumer at the store who overheard about the party, to bully them and grab an invitation for himself.

After he raped Johnny’s girl, and extremely tired of Rocky’s antics, the hooker/sex fiend community got together and planned their revenge on the rape-y giant.

The party was everything that was promised: A massive orgy that featured anything from light S&M, tons of interracial sex, fire, costumes, animal play and more. While Rocky did wear a costume, we suddenly realized that going undercover as a seven-footer proved to be a tall task.

Rocky gets what he had coming, in the form of chains, restraint and, you know… being pissed on and shat on, while everyone sang in celebration around him.

Ahhh, San Francisco…