The Seven Minutes is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace

Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic described him "as the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not so say...

 on the subject of pornography and freedom of speech. It is about a fictional obscenity trial of a banned book, The Seven Minutes, purported to be the thoughts in a woman's mind during seven minutes of sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...

. Wallace's extensively researched work contains numerous (attributed) quotes and presents well-supported arguments for both sides of his fictional debate.

The book was made into the film, The Seven Minutes

The Seven Minutes (film)

The Seven Minutes is 1971 drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. The film was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irving Wallace.-Plot:After a teenager who purchased the erotic novel The Seven Minutes is charged for rape, an...

, by Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....

 in 1971

1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

, co-starring Philip Carey

Philip Carey

-Biography:He was born as Eugene Joseph Carey in Hackensack, New Jersey. A former U.S. Marine, Carey was wounded as part of the ship's detachment of the USS Franklin during World War II and served again in the Korean War....

, John Carradine

John Carradine

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, Wayne Maunder

Wayne Maunder

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, Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck

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, Harold J. Stone

Harold J. Stone

Harold J. Stone was an American film and television character actor.Born Harold Hochstein to a Jewish acting family, he began his career on Broadway in 1939 and appeared in five plays in the next six years, including One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17, following which he made his motion picture...

, Yvonne DeCarlo, Edy Williams

Edy Williams

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, Marianne McAndrew

Marianne McAndrew

Marianne McAndrew is an actress known for her role as Irene Molloy in the film Hello, Dolly!-Personal life:McAndrew married actor Stewart Moss in 1970. Four years after they got married, they starred together in The Bat People. McAndrew has two brothers.-Career:Hello, Dolly! was Marianne...

, and Jay C. Flippen

Jay C. Flippen

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Maurice Girodias

Maurice Girodias

Maurice Girodias was the founder of the Olympia Press. At one time he was the owner of his father's Obelisk Press, and spent most of his productive years in Paris.-Early life:...

 of the Olympia Press

Olympia Press

Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane...

, who was interviewed by Wallace during research for his book, published a novel, The Original Seven Minutes, purporting to be the pornographic book described in Wallace's novel. Following legal action by Wallace, the book was withdrawn, and later republished as The Seven Erotic Minutes with the purported author's name and all references to Wallace removed. See: https://picasaweb.google.com/stuart.fanning/OriginalSevenMinutesByJJJadwayOlympiaPressNewYork1970#5334545036679190898

In the epilogue

Epilogue

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 to the novel Eleven Minutes

Eleven Minutes

Eleven Minutes is a 2003 novel by Paulo Coelho based on the experiences of a young Brazilian prostitute called Maria.-Plot introduction:...

, Paulo Coehlo cites Irving Wallace's book as a source of inspiration.