The residents of Duck Key, Florida Keys, Florida, where the movie was shot, proud that their hometown is in a movie, organized a public showing of the movie during a garden party, not realizing that it was a raunchy sex comedy. When the first scenes with explicit nudity came up, the scandalized guests left immediately, but since one of them insisted on staying to see how the movie ends, the movie was still played in its entirety in good humor.
The movie was originally in four parts. It was re-cut and released on VHS as "Soft Touch" and "Soft Touch II". The R-rated "Soft Touch" video series has scenes of explicit nudity and a bondage scene cut. The unrated "Birds of Paradise" version on four VHSs is unedited.