title: The Love Epidemic
text: # The Love Epidemic
  
  The Love Epidemic is a 1975 Australian semi-documentary about venereal disease directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It incorporates clinical case studies and sex health instruction with comedy sketches.
  
  It was shot on 16mm for $33,000 and blown up to 35mm for theatrical release.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Michael Laurence
  * Ros Spiers
  * Peter Reynolds
  * Grant Page
  * Tim Lynch
  * John Ewart
  * Barry Lovett
  * Jane Lister
  * Luda Apinys
  * Ken Doyle
  * Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs
  
  ## Release
  
  In January 1975 two members of the cast, Luda Apinys and Ken Doyle, sought an injunction to have the film withdrawn on the grounds that it was a pornographic film and they had only agreed to make an educational one. Their attempt was unsuccessful.
  
  The movie was rated "R". According to Trenchard-Smith the film "did okay... getting its money back and making a small profit."
  
  