Girls in
Emmanuelle 2 (1975)

Having already established herself as a skinternational softcore starlet with Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle 2, and Goodbye Emmanuelle, Dutch diva Sylvia Kristel decided to exploit her image in an American sex comedy.

The result was one of the true classics of the genre, Private Lessons. Released August 25, 1981, Private Lessons was a beacon of hope for all the horny pubescent boys hopelessly in lust with the older women in their lives.

Read more after the jump.

Although much continues to be (rightly) made of Deep Throat and the 1970s hardcore era of “Porn Chic,” one can not overstate the simultaneous cultural impact made by the softer side of the X-rating.

With that in mind, Mr. Skin wishes the happiest of birthdays (and birthday suits) to French filmmaker Just Jaeckin, who revolutionized erotic cinema with the worldwide phenomenon Emmanuelle, and who went on to helm other steamy classics on the order of The Story of O, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Gwendoline.

Just Jaeckin was born on this date in 1940.

Learn more, and see some of Just Jaeckin’s very breast efforts, after the jump.

"Any excuse is a good excuse to get naked."

These are words by which Mr. Skin lives and breathes, and, more skinportantly, they are the exact words that once dripped from the quivering lips of Indonesian-born eyeful Laura Gemser (Picture: 1), the undisputed goddess of '70s skinternational softcore cinema.