Why?
 

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

anyone? :helpme

beats me:rasta

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.. :winkwink:

Nope, my mother could not confirm or deny the meanings :(

:1orglaugh

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

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"