It highlights various Warhol superstars, in addition to being the film debuts of both Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling.

As the film begins, Geri ejects Joe from their bed and insists he go out on the streets to make some money for her girlfriend's abortion.

This camera permitted the recording of sound directly onto the film and had a maximum run time of 33 minutes.

"[6]Assisting Morrisey on Flesh was Jed Johnson, who had recently begun working at the Factory and would become Warhol's longtime partner.

[8] "A lot of people ask if we have a working script on our movies because the dialogue is so clever … what happens, as usual, is that Paul Morrissey gives a sentence to the actors and has them improvising on a topic while the camera is rolling," he said.

[8] Flesh was first shown at the Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre at 152 Bleecker Street in Manhattan on September 26, 1968.

[10][11] Flesh premiered in London at the Open Space Theatre on Tottenham Court Road on January 15, 1970.

[12] British censor John Trevelyan was wary of issuing the film a cinema certificate but had suggested it to distributor Jimmy Vaughan for club screenings.

[12][1] In his book Film as a Subversive Art, Amos Vogel writes that the threadbare plot belies something "far deeper and funnier in Morrissey’s unsentimental, accepting attitude toward life, embodied by Joe Dallesandro’s brooding, disaffected performance".