The man who brought you the Sex Pistols is bringing sex back to Times Square.

Malcolm McLaren, who helped launch the punk movement in the ’70s, has created a series of artful porn films that will be shown on MTV’s giant “44 1/2” screen on Broadway between 44th and 45th Sts. starting Thursday.

“I’ve
cut up pieces of old stag movies, slowed them way down, and set them to
music,” the 62-year-old pop provocateur tells us. “What you see is not
people having sex but people about to have it. The old movies had a lot
more foreplay. I was interested in the body language of nonactors, how
they communicated their longing.”

One piece has “a woman descending a staircase,” à la Marcel Duchamp’s
famous painting. “She’s wearing a garter belt and a mink. She’s going
to an orgy, but you don’t see where she’s going. It’s set to a mashup
of the Captain and Tenielle’s ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ and Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart.'” (Pedestrians can listen to the music by calling a number on the screen.)

Other
pieces feature “a chap biting a girl’s ankle as she runs out of the
subway,” “two normally dressed schoolboys chased by a naked couple into
a dark room” and “a guy vacuuming a tiny piece of red carpet.”

MTV
was “extremely strict” about making sure no one’s private parts are
seen, says McLaren, whose installation, titled “Shallow,” is presented
by Creative Time. The videos are to run through Aug. 14.

McLaren loves that the videos are showing in what was once New York’s
Tenderloin, the seedy precinct of peep shows and streetwalkers.
“Hundreds of people would walk down the street thinking about sex,”
says McLaren. “Now the outlawed culture will live on.”

The cleanup of Times Square was known as its “Disneyfication.” So it’s triply rich when McLaren reveals he’s talking with Disney about bankrolling his musical about fashion designer Christian Dior. Is this the same McLaren, a punk anarchist who snarled at EMI and all record labels?

“The
people in Disney’s theater department are quite brilliant,” he says.
“They’ve helped focus me. And, to be frank, they were the only people
who understood the [Dior] material.”

His “honeymoon” with the
corporate world doesn’t stop him from sniggering at the recent
performance by the surviving Sex Pistols in Las Vegas.

“There is something strange about Johnny Rotten condemning the ‘fascist regime’ in Vegas,” he says. “But rock stars
want to go on forever, even if theyhave to hobble onstage with a wooden
leg.”