The Doctor and the Playgirl

The Most Controversial Subject of our Time!

5.7

|1963|80 min

A young woman enters the life of a New York playgirl, after being brutally raped by her stepfather. She soon moves in with a young male doctor, who makes special intimate sessions between government officials and young women.

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