{{Short description|1973 film by Lloyd Kaufman}} {{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = The New Comers | image = | alt = | caption = Promotional Poster (As Seven Delicious Wishes) | director = Lloyd Kaufman | writer = Lloyd Kaufman | producer = Lloyd Kaufman | starring = Jamie Gillis<br>Harry Reems<br>Georgina Spelvin | released = {{Film date|1973}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States }} '''''The New Comers''''' (also released as Seven Delicious Wishes) is a 1973 pornographic film written, produced, and directed by Lloyd Kaufman, and starring Jamie Gillis, Harry Reems, and Georgina Spelvin. The film was banned in New York City for violating state obscenity statutes.
The film was part of the porno chic wave of the Golden Age of Porn,<ref name=pornochic>Blumenthal, Ralph (January 21, 1973). Porno chic; "Hard-core" grows fashionable-and very profitable. ''The New York Times''.</ref> and had the distinction of being reviewed in ''Variety'' before its release.
The trend towards the mainstreaming of porn in neighborhood theaters was inhibited by the Supreme Court's 1973 Miller v. California decision, which redefined obscenity from that of “utterly without socially redeeming value” to that that lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" and substituted contemporary community standards for national standards, as some prior tests required. Miller continued to hold that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment, which gave leeway to local judges to seize and destroy prints of films adjudged to violate local community standards.<ref name="Hollywood v. Hard Core">{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Jon|title=Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry|year=2000|publisher=NYU Press|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0814751428|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodvhardco00lewi_0/page/260 260–67]|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodvhardco00lewi_0/page/260}}</ref> When ''The New Comers'' opened in New York City in 1973, it was successfully prosecuted along with ''Behind the Green Door'' and banned.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Censorship">{{cite book|last=Green|first=Jonathon & Nicholas J. Karolides|title=Encyclopedia of Censorship|year=2005|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0816044641|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofce00gree/page/44 44]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofce00gree/page/44}}</ref>
==Synopsis== The lecturer invites his students to his home and then begins to educate them sexually, conducting various experiments.
==See also== * List of American films of 1973
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0144463|The New Comers}}
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