Sex Madness

Length: 52 Minutes | Produced:1938

Sex Madness, filmed by exploitation director Dwain Esper, is similar to other films of this genre such as Reefer Madness. It avoids the stringent decency rules of the Hays Code by purporting to have an educational purpose, in this case, warning of the dangers of sexual inhibition. A nice small town girl, Millie, leaves her fianc? behind to find fame and fortune in New York City. She tries in vain to launch a career on Broadway, even visiting the casting couch in her attempts to break into show business. All she gets for her efforts are a job as a chorus girl and a case of syphilis. She seeks treatment from a kind doctor before she goes home, but the film leaves it uncertain as to whether or not she will continue the treatments when she goes back home to her fianc?. Scenes include wild parties, orgies, and other sex-inducing situations. The film insinuates that these kinds of sex madnesses can lead to lesbianism and of course, pre-marital sex.