Pornographic and Other Exploitation Work
Later on in her career after her long period of sexploitation work, Wishman went on to do a couple of hardcore pornographic films like Satan Was a Lady (1975) and Come With Me, My Love (1976) both of which starred porn star Annie Sprinkle. Wishman was not fond of working on these films and continually denied working on them. She was known to have left the room on the set of these film during the sex scenes as she deemed them too inappropriate. As her biographer and long time admirer, Michael Bowen stated in her New York Times obituary, "She was actually rather sexually naive." He also stated that "She personally thought that someone's hand caressing your face was more erotic than sex itself." Although the project started in 1971, the 1978 release of her documentary on transsexuality titled Let Me Die A Woman, featured many interviews with actual transgendered subjects. The film also featured dramatized scenes about daily struggles of transgendered people featuring Deep Throat star Harry Reems. She later became quite interested in joining in the slasher film craze started with films like Halloween (1978), Friday The 13th (1980) Maniac (1981) and Prom Night (1980). Wishman decided to make her own film in the genre titled A Night to Dismember (1983), but the project was a commercial failure.
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