On November 27, 1967, the second issue of Rolling Stone magazine hit newsstands with a portrait of Tina Turner on the cover. Turner was the defiant, free, obvious and joyfully sexualized woman, but also partly ironic and good-humored.

The Blaxplotaition genre did not receive that name until 1972 and, in its beginnings, left some of the most testosteronic films in the history of cinema. Only in 1972, Pam Grier got a co-starring role in Hitman, albeit playing a pornographic film actress.