 The pose is in the style of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.Because Pirou is nearly unknown as a pornographic filmmaker, credit is often given to other films for being the first.In "Black and White and Blue" (2008), one of the most scholarly attempts to document the origins of the clandestine 'stag film' trade, Dave Thompson recounts ample evidence that such an industry first had sprung up in the brothels of Buenos Aires and other South American cities by around the start of the 20th century, and then quickly spread through Central Europe over the following few years; however, none of these earliest pornographic films is known to survive.