Girls in
Lost Highway (1997)

1969 stands as the year that pop culture evolved from the mass grooviness of Woodstock and the far-out giant leap of the moon landing to the horror of the Manson Family murders and the Hells Angels stomping out flower power at Altamont.

It was also the year that Hollywood erupted with new creative freedom, emboldened by expanding societal mores and the new MPAA rating system.

Filmmakers could now dip into the palette of patently adult material, including coarse language, unflinching violence, and, most importantly, sex and nudity.

Let’s trip on back to 1969 and dig nine classic nude scenes from that headiest of daze gone by.

1. EASY RIDER
Toni Basil
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Toni strips full-frontally nude in a New Orleans cemetery while tripping on LSD.

Easy Rider is indisputably one of the hippie era’s ultimate artistic statements. Toni Basil’s “Hey Mickey!” video is one of the most indelible media images of the 1980s. How interesting that one cultural touchstone unwittingly begat another. On acid. Naked.

The cult classics by madman filmmaker David Lynch routinely feature female nudity and kinky sexuality (to say the least), but he pushed even his own boundaries out further than ever with Mulholland Drive, which opened in theaters on this date in 2001.

Mulholland Drive is in keeping with Lynch’s naked body of naked work, which includes Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway (and is bolstered by his hottie-packed TV series Twin Peaks), but this surrealistic saga of Naomi Watts as a reality-tripping Hollywood starlet on the rise also contains one of the most scorching lesbian scenes ever filmed.

At the two-hour, one-minute mark, blonde Namoi and raven-maned Laura Harring make wild girl-girl love on an incredibly lucky couch.

You will never be more grateful that ABC-TV passed on Mulholland Drive as a weekly series, which prompted Lynch to develop this lez-tastic big screen version.

Mulholland Drive will put and Eraserhead in your pants. Click the pic to see more naked Naomi Watts lesbian action.

Lydia Lunch is many things: a writer, a spoken-word artist, a visual artist, a musician, an actress, a photographer. Sure, she's talented, but she's also one of the sexiest creatures to crawl out from the seminal punk/no-wave scene in New York City in the '70s. And she's a Mr. Skin fan.