Two of the participants, Luda Apinys and Ken Doyle, tried to prevent this film's release as they objected to the "pornographic" elements in what they were told was a documentary.
This feature length documentary is about "veneral disease" which is abbreviated by the acronym "VD". Made during the 1970s, the term for the subject matter later became known as "sexually transmitted disease" which is abbreviated by the acronym STD. Then later, the terminology changed again, being referred to as "sexual transmitted infection" which is abbreviated by the acronym "STI".
According to an interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith in the December-January 1979-1980 edition of Australian film magazine 'Cinema Papers', at the box-office, the picture "did okay . . . getting its money back and making a small profit". Film Victoria reported that this documentary grossed AU $367,000 at the Australian box-office.
This documentary film is available as a bonus added extra special feature on the Australian 2013 DVD release of Igor Auzins' High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977).
Some movie posters for the film featured a long blurb opening with a bold slogan that read: "NOBODY IS IMMUNE! More prevalent than the common cold and ten times more deadly. Here at last are the facts about the last of the forbidden subjects!".
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