Girls in
Star 80 (1983)

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.

A Skintroduction to Mr Skin's Man in the Feels

Editor's Note: McBeardo is Mr Skin’s resident sexpert on weird, cult, fringe, midnight, underground and/or any other extreme form of skinema.

He reports from the frontlines and backrooms of most skintimidating screening halls on the planet – not the least of which is the place where he keeps his couch.

The opinions of McBeardo are not necessarily those of Mr Skin, MrSkin.com, or any related affiliates. The ideas as to what constitutes a “wild time” are definitely not Mr Skin’s, period.

Please click McBeardo's mitt on the magnifincent bosom on Nekromistress to go to the next page and read his first column.

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.