---
alias:
- Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig
- Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig
- Male Chauvinist Pig (film)
category: Crime & Abuse Networks
created: 2026-09-23
location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
relations:
- fn: 1
  reverse: true
  role: writer and director
  type: participant_in
  with: '[[R.C. Horsch]]'
- fn: 1
  reverse: true
  role: co-director
  type: participant_in
  with: '[[John Butterworth]]'
summary: 1973 pornographic feature shot in Philadelphia by Ray Hoersch, later R.C.
  Horsch, and John Butterworth, which Horsch said was financed by the Philadelphia
  bar owner Salvatore La Russa.
tags:
- Film
- Pornography
- RCHorsch
- Philadelphia
- OrganizedCrime
updated: 2026-09-23
---

*The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig* is a pornographic feature shot in Philadelphia in February 1973 by Ray Hoersch, later known as [R.C. Horsch](/people/rc-horsch/), and [John Butterworth](/people/john-butterworth/), whom Horsch described as a news cameraman for KYW-TV. It featured the New York performers [Georgina Spelvin](/people/georgina-spelvin/), [Tina Russell](/people/tina-russell/), [Darby Lloyd Rains](/people/darby-lloyd-rains/), and Helen Madigan and depicts rape, bondage, urination, and sex with a character presented as a schoolgirl.[^1][^2]

### Production

Horsch said that the budget was a little over 20,000 dollars, of which 60 to 70 percent came from [Salvatore "Sam the Barber" La Russa](/people/salvatore-la-russa/), who ran the Bag of Nails bar at 13th and Locust Streets, "money that he had laying around in a shoebox behind the bar. We're talking about organized crime." He said the film was shot in the house of his girlfriend, the wife of a Philadelphia assistant district attorney, and that a hospital scene was shot in the emergency room of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania under permission obtained for a student film; his later website gave the emergency room as Hahnemann Hospital's and the house as the Chestnut Hill home of a local assistant district attorney, and listed further locations at the Bag of Nails and on a vintage SEPTA trolley. The same website credited Paul Taylor as the lead, "Barney," and an actress billed as Any Mathieu or Any Hunter.[^1][^3][^4]

### Distribution

Horsch said that staff of the [Philadelphia District Attorney's Office](/organizations/philadelphia-district-attorneys-office/) attended the premiere at the 1812 Theater on Chestnut Street, that La Russa arranged distribution through Philadelphia organized crime, and that the film was sold to the distributor [Sam Lake](/people/sam-lake/) for 50,000 dollars; his website described Lake's company as Mature Pictures, Inc.[^1][^4] The trade magazine *Take One* reported in the spring of 1973 that "Bob Sumner's Mature Films in New York followed up Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig (starring Ms. Spelvin) with High Rise."[^5] The *Boxoffice* booking guide of February 1974 listed "Erotic Memoirs/Male Chauvinist Pig," a sex drama of 75 minutes, from the distributor Mature, with a date of October 15, 1973.[^6] Horsch said that the film reached number 42 on a national chart; his website gave number 38.[^3][^4] [Al Goldstein](/people/al-goldstein/) wrote in *[Screw](/organizations/screw-magazine/)* that the sex in it was disgusting.[^2][^4] La Russa died of a heart attack in 1996.[^7]

[^1]: West, Ashley. "Unknowing Ray Horsch, Episode 2: Performance," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 172, September 20, 2026, audio. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/09/20/ray-horsch-3/
[^2]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html
[^3]: West, Ashley. "Ray Horsch: Sociopathic Villain," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 27, December 15, 2013. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260520094947/https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/12/15/ray-horsch/
[^4]: Horsch, R.C. [Commentary on *The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig*] and "Art Beat" interview of 1997, eroto.com, archived November 5, 2016. http://web.archive.org/web/20161105022433/http://eroto.com:80/commentary/64-mcp-commentary
[^5]: Morthland, John. "Porn Films: An In-Depth Report," *Take One,* vol. 3, no. 6 (March-April 1973), pp. 11-15. https://archive.org/details/take-one-1973-03
[^6]: "Boxoffice Bookinguide," *Boxoffice* (Canadian edition), February 4, 1974. https://archive.org/details/boxoffice-canadian-1974-02-04
[^7]: "Five takeaways from Philly missing women mystery connected to Raymond and Eugene Horsch," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 4, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-missing-women-20260804.html