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How does a young man from a small New England town become one of the most influential makers of exploitation films in the 1960s? How does the same filmmaker come to be a pioneer of hardcore sex movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including groundbreaking gay features? And how does that very same director move into mainstream productions for television networks like NBC in the 1990s?

In American Exxxtasy, John Amero charts his remarkable life and career at the forefront of the sexual revolution, while sharing what it was like to be a gay man living in the heart of New York City through the eras of Stonewall, LGBTQ rights and AIDS.

It's a memoir that depicts his close bond with his brother Lem, with whom he formed a thirty-year filmmaking partnership. It details his friendship and collaboration with notorious exploitation director Michael Findlay and his wife Roberta. And it explores John's relationships with notable names such as
Andy Warhol, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Perkins, and Olympia Dukakis.

American Exxxtasy is an engaging personal story told with candour, emotion and humour, and a portrait of an industry and a city that were rapidly changing. And it's the only first-person account that provides intimate insight into a singularly unique journey from porn to primetime.

John Amero is a pioneering filmmaker who started out with close friend Michael Findlay, directing the 'roughie' Body of a Female in 1965. John then formed a film partnership with his brother Lem that produced groundbreaking 1960s films such as Diary of a Swinger and The Corporate Queen, and 1970s hits like Blonde Ambition and Every Inch a Lady. John also made a notable series of gay sex films, and worked with adult film stalwarts Chuck Vincent and Larry Revene during the 1980s. He continued to make his own films into the 1990s, including a mainstream TV special starring Olympia Dukakis.