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Private Lessons (1981)

Phoebe Cates’s other great ’80s teen sex comedy also

features Saw babe Betsy Russell, scream queen Brinke Stevens, and loads of sexy surprises.

If summertime 1982 served as cherry-popping Ground Zero for the decade’s teen sex comedy phenomenon—and seeing as it contained the premieres of Porky's, The Last American Virgin, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, it did—then the subsequent swelter season’s Private School (1983) was the first direct fallout. And what a gloriously radiant after-effect it is.

To be sure, a spate of raunchy teen farces did rush into theaters during the ’82-’83 school year—among them: The Beach Girls, Homework, Joysticks, Losin’ It, Goin’ All the Way, My Tutor, Pink Motel, Spring Break, (the mighty) Screwballs, and (the also mighty) Zapped!

But Private School represented Hollywood’s first full-scale attempt to concoct an all-out teen sex comedy blockbuster, calculatedly combining familiar genre tropes (nerds, jocks, nudity-producing pranks, cross-dressing one’s way into the girls’ shower room, etc.), and then adding Phoebe Cates—the naked girl from Fast Times—up on top like a beautiful, brown-nippled bow.

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.

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Years come, years go. So as 2007 fades into the new horizons of 2008, let's be freshly grateful, then, that flesh on film lasts forever. The past twelve months have provided a bumper crop of delectable actresses unveiling themselves on DVD.

As the carefree paradise of summer makes way for the bummer of fall, teachers and students return to the hallowed halls of learning. But we at MrSkin.com submit that the end of summer vacation doesn't have to mean the end of covert sexual trysts and boast-worthy conquests, because sometimes the math teacher in the low-cut blouse is more willing than anyone would suspect to supply her teenage students with erotic diversions that no inexperienced high-school girl could ever provide.