In the summer of 1967 the Warhol film organization was approached by the Hudson Theater on 44th Street near Times Square with a request for Warhol films suitable for the "sexploitation" market, a new genre of softcore pornography that emerged in the late sixties in response to relaxed censorship laws. (T)he theater's owner suggested that he could use something like I, a Woman. I, a Man is constructed as a series of sexual encounters between its star, Tom Baker, and a number of different women, including Nico, Ultra Violet, Ingrid Superstar, and Ivy Nicolson. Perhaps because of his experience as a real actor, Baker is rather unsuccessful at the particular kind of non-acting the Warhol style called for; the best performances in the film are those of the nonprofessional Warhol stars he makes love to. In retrospect, the most interesting sequence in the film is Baker's scene with Valerie Solanas, the unbalanced feminist polemicist who would shoot and nearly kill Warhol in June 1968.-Callie Angell