THE Seventies brand of soul music was wonderfully varied. Sometimes it was political with unflinching testimonials of the ghetto. Then it could shift gears into some funk that made you want to get up and dance. And then there were those songs that were designed for a single purpose – sweet, sweet lovemaking. This is a list of the best in that domain. Dim the lights, open a bottle, and enjoy….

Full of politics and new music, the 1960s was an era of protest, change and unforgettable fashion, making it an incredibly popular fancy dress theme. Look like Freddy Mercury with our licensed Breakfree Housewife fancy dress. Have a dry cloth handy, this cosmic funk has such a sexual vibe your speakers may sweat. (Do what you will with the moistened cloth afterwards. Clarence Sims started his career as a small-time blues musician. During a gig in Texas, he met his first hooker. Sims, seduced by the pimp lifestyle, moved to San Francisco and soon became the city’s “Pope of Pimping.” Shaft may have been a bad mother— SHUT YOUR MOUTH! – but it’s not a love song. This Isaac Hayes groove is the very definition. In fact, Hayes pretty much commands it – to do otherwise would just be wrong. The brothers in Heatwave were obviously experts in the ways of love. This song is like Viagra in audio form.Yes, Mr. White is on this list twice. However, with a voice like his and with his skills at turning a melody into a mating call, he’s probably not on this list enough.

Sims became Fillmore Slim, named for the San Francisco street where employed what he says were thousands of prostitutes. After managing Adams’ business for a while, Fleiss branched out on her own, using money and connections she’d gained during a relationship with 61-year-old elite financier Bernie Cornfield. Rich and famous men would call Fleiss, tell her where they’d be traveling and when, and Fleiss would set them up with the kind of company they wanted. The savvy Fleiss would earn 40% of each transaction. Saturday Night Live’s Ladies’ Man once said all he needed was a bottle of Courvoisier and some Lou Rawls to get excited. I think, with Marvin Gaye, there’s no alcohol required. Nadelman, whose thousands of photos have been digitized by his son Stefan, watched as pimps and prostitutes gathered outside of his bar Nadelman then completely took himself out of New York 'It was like circumcision, gone', he said of his move to suburbia, and now views his time at the bar as a 'different world', though is reminded of the 70s by the occasional sex shop still on 8th Avenue.

The photographer keeps his photos, as well as his paintings, up on the walls of his house for his personal recollections.

America’s Pimpmaster General” runs Nevada’s famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel, which HBO featured in its Cathouse reality documentaries and series. Hollander penned her famous “Happy Hooker” book in 1971. In 1972, Hollander started writing “Call Me Madam,” a popular Penthouse sex advice column. Hollander, something of a Renaissance woman, now speaks, writes books, produces theater shows, owns a bed and breakfast, and enjoys an established public career as a sex expert. This isn’t a Led Zeppelin cover; which is fortunate because Baby Making Music with Tolkien references would be kind of disconcerting. At the 30 second mark, get ready for an epic spoken-word booty lament that is truly in a class by itself. Nadelman, who lived in Greenwich Village before leaving the city to raise his children, snapped genuine shots as sex workers hid behind newsstands to avoid police at the terminal across the street and watched as the lives of many who entered his bar slowly fall apart.Making money off the world’s oldest profession might just be the world’s oldest business. With profits ranging from 40% to nearly 100%, pimping’s money lures in all kinds of characters. Women, in fact, have become just as notorious as men in the business–just ask Heidi Fleiss. He and his business parter-cum-wife, Sally, decided to promote heavyweight boxing champ Oscar Bonavena, according to this CNBC article. Bonavena developed a crush on Sally, then announced that he wanted to take over Mustang Ranch. Whether they’ve run with criminals, serviced politicians, or owned a famous brothel, the pimps and madams below have earned themselves a spot in US history.

In terms of social progress, he compares himself to Rosa Parks. Though this might be a stretch, Bobbi Davis’ struggle to license Markus in turn put the Shady Lady on the map. Markus has since been replaced with a stud named “Y.Not.” Younger listeners will recognize the beat heavily sampled in Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”. Old school listeners remember the sleazy original by Pimp Casanova, Leon Haywood. Instead of ‘fessing up, the Confortes took off to Brazil, from which they couldn’t be extradited. In 1999, after pursuing the Confortes in court, the Feds shut down Mustang Ranch; it has since been reinvented by another couple. One of the more explicit entries on this list, The Moments lay down an old-school sex jam not suitable for minors.Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss managed her first prostitution ring at the tender age of 23, under the not-so-soft tutelage of “Madam 90210” Alex Adams, who took care of Beverly Hills’ needs through the 1980s. (Adams later referred to Fleiss as a “Jewish-American Princess,” probably out of jealousy of her protégé’s success.) His amateur work, which includes thousands of portraits from the period, often focused on the street trash can he could see from the bar, where a cross section of Times Square's hustlers and homeless stopped for a rest.