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Satan · 10-22-2002, 09:59 PM

Why do they call porn films "blue movies" ????

anyone?

dav555add · 10-22-2002, 10:03 PM

beats me

richard123 · 10-22-2002, 10:04 PM

There are several theories about where it came from. It has been said that prostitutes who were imprisoned in a house of correction were forced to wear blue gowns, and as a result bluegown was used for a prostitute, with blue being derived from it by abbreviation (this has nothing to do with another sense of bluegown, which you will find in the piece about gaberlunzie, nor indeed to a bluestocking). Another theory is that it derives from a series of French books entitled Bibliotèque blue, "of questionable character" as Farmer and Henley put it in their Slang and Its Analogues of 1890.

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Satan · 10-22-2002, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by richard123
There are several theories about where it came from. It has been said that prostitutes who were imprisoned in a house of correction were forced to wear blue gowns, and as a result bluegown was used for a prostitute, with blue being derived from it by abbreviation (this has nothing to do with another sense of bluegown, which you will find in the piece about gaberlunzie, nor indeed to a bluestocking). Another theory is that it derives from a series of French books entitled Bibliotèque blue, "of questionable character" as Farmer and Henley put it in their Slang and Its Analogues of 1890.

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Interesting... I think I will go ask my mother..

Satan · 10-22-2002, 10:20 PM

Nope, my mother could not confirm or deny the meanings

titmowse · 10-22-2002, 10:25 PM

i once heard that it had to do with the films having a blue hue...but that was probably bullshit

redshift · 10-22-2002, 10:28 PM

this raises another question here in the south we have what is called "blue laws" which usually means that liquor sales are illegal on sunday. I always wondered why they are called "blue laws"

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richard123 Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 491	There are several theories about where it came from. It has been said that prostitutes who were imprisoned in a house of correction were forced to wear blue gowns, and as a result bluegown was used for a prostitute, with blue being derived from it by abbreviation (this has nothing to do with another sense of bluegown, which you will find in the piece about gaberlunzie, nor indeed to a bluestocking). Another theory is that it derives from a series of French books entitled Bibliotèque blue, "of questionable character" as Farmer and Henley put it in their Slang and Its Analogues of 1890. Copied from http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-blu2.htm

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redshift Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: anus fuckin' yo mama Posts: 1,044	this raises another question here in the south we have what is called "blue laws" which usually means that liquor sales are illegal on sunday. I always wondered why they are called "blue laws"