The Motion Picture Association of America relaxes their morals a bit, Variety celebrates with a lewd poem.

>After [Jack Valenti](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Jack_Valenti_Portrait.jpeg) became president of the Motion Picture Association of America in 1966 and began relaxing Production Code rules, *Variety* published a poem entitled “Ode to Revised Motion Picture Code”: >>In urban nabes and drive-in glades, >>The screen at last is free. >>Four-letter words, explicit verbs >>Titillate tots of three. >>With derrieres and pubic hairs >>Blithely exposed today, >>When they say “he went thataway,” >>Means the hero turned gay. _________________________________ **Source:** Boller, Paul F., and Ronald L. Davis. "The Sexual Revolution." *Hollywood Anecdotes*. New York: Morrow, 1987. 425. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Jack Vizzard, *Life Inside a Hollywood Censor* (N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1970), p. 340. _________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Jack Joseph Valenti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti) [Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) / Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America) [Variety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(magazine)