Dorothy Stratten Nude

Popular culture of 1979 was post-hippie, but not quite yuppie; post-disco, but not quite New Wave; and post-Star-Wars, but not quite completely infantilized by Steven Spielberg.

At local theaters (which were not quite all multiplexes—yet), Hollywood continued to present movies for adults: mature stories for grown-up people featuring adult themes, adult story lines, and that most quintessentially adult artistic flourish—nudity.

With home video still a few years in the future, grindhouses and drive-ins surged toward a crescendo, showcasing an explosion of exploitation that was also patently adult but not, to be sure, mature.

Let’s look now at some of our favorite nude scenes from 1979—eleven, in total, in honor of the rating Dudley Moore actually awards to Bo Derek in the movie 10.

Julia Roberts's Niece Discusses Her First Sex Scene—and Why It May Be Her Last

Emma Roberts may be just 18 years old, but she's already got one sex scene under her belt. Sadly the scene in question, opposite Rory Culkin (Macauley's little bro) in Lymelife, is completely non-nude, and though Mr Skin has been holding out hope that Emma was just getting her feet wet and would disrobe in the near future, the prospects don't look too promising. In fact, Roberts found the whole experience so embarrassing that she may never do a sex scene again! She told WENN:

It was kind of awkward and embarrassing. It was kind of an honest first time kind of scene, I guess. I think seeing it onscreen is more awkward actually.

I saw it when I was with one of my really good friends, one of my best friends who I've known since I was in kindergarten and she couldn't even watch. She was burying her face in my shoulder.

When we shot it I was thinking, 'This is really embarrassing. I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm ever going to do this again.' But then, when you're actually on the set, you just want to do it in one take and you just want to get it over with. So you just go out there and do it. I think that anticipation is almost worse than the actual scene itself.

Emma's famous aunt, Julia Roberts, has a similar disdain for sex on screen. Though she let slip a blurry peek of teat in Pretty Woman, Julia has been notoriously skingy in her career and has also decried fake film fuckery. But we were hoping that Emma would take her nudity cues from dear old dad, Eric Roberts. One of Eric's first roles was portraying the jealous boyfriend/killer of legendary Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten in the Mr Skin Hall of Fame movie Star 80. Dear Emma, when it comes to peeling for the screen, father knows best.

Spank It Like It’s 1974

Fans of classic Playboy playmates like Jayne Mansfield, Jean Bell, Dorothy Stratten, Madeleine & Mary Collinson, Jenny McCarthy, and Pam Anderson who don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on Ebay can rejoice.

Playboy magazine has just launched a free online archive that features 53 digital back issues of the magazine, one each from the years 1954 to 2007, just as they appeared on the newsstand— advertisements, hi-fi stereo reviews, Norman Mailer stories and all.

Nothing has been this free since the Whole Earth Catalog.

Read more after the jump.

Greed, jealousy, and possessive vengeance combined to create the insanity that robbed the world of one of Playboy's most beautiful Playmates ever, Dorothy Stratten.

And it happened on this date in 1980.

Get the skinny, and a look at Dorothy very much alive and naked, after the jump.

Inspired by the classic Judas Priest song "Turbo Lover" and the fact that today marks the second anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Serbia, I thought I'd use today's blog to compile a list of the three Serbians who have made the greatest contributions to cinematic nudity. Forget ultra-nationalist dictator Slobodan Milosevic, Nobel Prize-nominated postmodern novelist Milorad Pavic, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI, these are the three people I think of when I hear the strains of "Boze pravde."

Milla Jovovich

A half-serb born in Ukraine, Milla Jovovich became a skin-stant star at the age of 16 in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) when she went topless to (in a sense) reprise the role made famous by 15 year old Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon (1980). Since coming of age, Milla's mams, muff and mudflaps have been on display in movies like Resident Evil (2002) No Good Deed (2002) and .45 (2006), where she makes out with the very nubile Aisha Tyler and gets her box munched in the shower by Sarah Strange. Nothing strange about that!

Rada Rassimov

An Italian babe of Serbian descent, Rada Rassimov's rack revelations in the X-rated skinternational sex comedy Grandeur Nature (1974) must have made both her home country and her adopted one proud. After all, between Serbia's Carpathian Mountains and Italy's Alps, both nationalities know how to appreciate a nice set of peaks.

Peter Bogdanovich

Serbian on one side and Austrian Jewish on the other, Peter Bogdanovich is a legendary figure in Hollywood, mainly because of the amazing ups and downs he has experienced. Bogdonavich was conceived as his parents were fleeing the Nazis, wrote many well-received pieces of film criticism before he began making movies, worked with Roger Corman, was a protegee of Orson Welles, was hailed as a genius for the Mr. Skin Hall of Fame classic The Last Picture Show (1971) then panned as a hack for At Long Last Love (1975), slept with Cybill Shepherd and doomed playmate Dorothy Stratten, then, eight years after her death, married Dorothy's 20 year old sister Louise when he was 49. If you can think of it, Peter's Bog-done-ovich'd it!