Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mm stag film of his daughter with two young men.
The film is divided into four episodes. In the first Giacinto and his wife decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by watching a movie at the cinema. However, the period in which they live is dotted by the deployment of a large number of pornographic films and the two, being simpletons, run into a projection at red lights. In the second episode a boy to become a famous journalist and writer, must have a sexual relationship with his director and morbid. In the third episode a woman, Armida, is struggling with the pornographic magazines, with the risk of compromising his family relationship. In the last episode the crude and vulgar producer Giuseppe Costanzo is releasing his latest movie-themed sex. But the girl who must interpret the "deflowered" by the young actor suddenly decides to run away leaving the production to violence. Joseph did not do more and is enraged to death. Of all the attempts to reconcile the relationship with the actress, but everything is useless. Then a friend advised him to take an alternate ending for the film and equally seductive emorivamente that will involve the entire audience during the first cinema. And in fact it is so in the audience and even the simpletons Hyacinth and his wife are satisfied, although tested for life from the violence of those visual content.
Prior to the opening credits we see portions of the stag film that is shot in the course of the movie. Voices are overheard that make it apparent that men and women are watching this in the present day. At the end a man complains that there was no "Come shot", something that will later develop into a plot point.
In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. They seem to have a perfect marriage. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. According to the movie, the answer to the title question is: "No, only affection".
Rosario Trapanese est déterminé à montrer qu’il n’est pas le typique sicilien à l’ancienne. Lorsque son entreprise l’envoie au Danemark, une nation plus libérée sexuellement que l’Italie, il adopte immédiatement le mode de vie danois "libre-sexuel-tabou". Il rencontre et épouse Karen et réussit à revenir en Italie. Une fois ici, il découvre Karen a fait un film porno et sa détermination à être ouvert d’esprit est terminée. La jalousie sicilienne typique le rend fou. Quoi qu’il en soit, après un certain temps, Rosario comprend que ce que sa femme a fait avant de le rencontrer ne doit pas être un problème pour lui. Karen avoue à Rosario qu’elle a signé un contrat pour un second film et qu’elle ne pouvait refuser qu’en payant une amende. Le couple n’a pas assez d’argent donc ils doivent trouver une solution.
Jon Rubin, vétéran de la guerre du Viêt Nam, est engagé par un producteur de films pornographiques afin de filmer ses voisins d'en face dans les moments les plus intimes.
Une jeune actrice est retrouvée morte. Elle a été poignardée à de nombreuses reprises dans les yeux par un pic à glace. Son meurtre est montré trois fois, dans trois styles et de trois points de vue différents.