Ménage-à-trois

Two’s company, three’s a ball.

Threesomes. Threeways. Two girls and a guy. Two guys and a girl. This most ecstatic of sex acts, when coupling becomes tripling, was immortalized by the French with their elegant term ménage-à-trois.

Aside from the action of all those hands and glands in motion at once—leading to lesbianism and bisexuality galore—at the movies, the ménage-à-trois has provided us with some of skinema’s most explosively arousing moments.

Think of Neve Campbell and Denise Richards nude and doing it in a motel in Wild Things. Or Daryl Hannah and Patricia Charbonneau in lust on a Greek island in Summer Lovers. Some of the most outrageous celebrity nude threesomes involve Helen Mirren and Teresa Ann Savoy in Caligula. Now those are some orgies.

On the boob tube, HBO’s Entourage presented an awesome Hollywood threesome featuring Watchmen blonde Malin Akerman making out with Emmanuelle Chriqui.

Explicit art movies frequently indulge in threeway action. Some of the best include Joan Severance in Lake Consequence, Tiffany Limos in Ken Park, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también.

Of course, graphic sex movies such as those on late-night cable are hotbeds of three-in-a-bed fun. Mr Skin will allow you count down each and every one.