The Sexplorer
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDerek Ford
Produced byMorton M. Lewis
StarringMonika Ringwald
Andrew Grant
Mark Jones
Tanya Ferova
CinematographyRoy Pointer
Edited byHoward Lanning
Music byJohn Shakespeare
Derek Warne
Release dates
  • 19 October 1975 (1975-10-19)
(UK)
  • 18 December 1975 (1975-12-18)
(Australia)
  • 2 February 1976 (1976-02-02)
(Sweden)
  • 3 September 1976 (1976-09-03)
(Denmark)
  • October 1976 (1976-10)
(USA)
  • 4 April 1979 (1979-04-04)
(France)
  • 8 April 2007 (2007-04-08)
(USA) (Quentin Tarantino Presents: The Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival)
Running time
82 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Sexplorer (US title: The Girl from Starship Venus, UK re-release title: Diary of a Space Virgin) is a 1975 British sex comedy film directed by Derek Ford and starring Monika Reingwald.[1] It was produced by Morton M. Lewis. A hardcore version of the film was also made for the foreign market.[2]

Plot

A Venusian explorer, adopting the form of a human woman, visits planet Earth to study the behaviour and customs of Earthlings. She lands in a Soho sauna, and discovers from the Soho bookshops that humans come in male and female forms. She investigates further, visiting a sex cinema, sex shops and a photographer's studio. She meets and falls in love with a young man, and with him she discovers the pleasures of sex. She decides not to return to Venus.

Cast

  • Monika Ringwald as The Explorer
  • Mark Jones as lecher
  • Andrew Grant as Allan
  • Anthony Kenyon as man in cinema
  • David Rayner as photographer
  • Beatrice Shaw as old lady
  • Michael Cronin as doctor
  • Prudence Drage as sauna attendant
  • Anna Dawson as store manageress
  • Tanya Ferova as stripper
  • Chris Gannon as store detective
  • Alan Selwyn as bookshop manager
  • Roy Scammell as ballet dancer
  • Juliet Groves as ballet dancer
  • Albin Pahernik as man in toilet

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The Sexplorer is meant to be funny as well as erotic, introducing an element of supposed self-parody through the person of its otherworldly sexologist and the 'bizarre' activity on which she turns a quizzical eye, whilst striving of course for the usual quota of titillation. Unfortunately, as it is totally lacking in wit or style, the selfparody acts as a banana skin on which the film slips in its first minutes, falling flat on its face and remaining quite inert for the subsequent eighty minutes."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Sexplorer". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0857682796.
  3. ↑ "The Sexplorer". Monthly Film Bulletin. 42 (492): 160. 1975 – via ProQuest.


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