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.

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His name literally translates as “Little Boots”, but Rome’s most notorious emperor and the Penthouse-magazine-produced film he inspired made an impact on popular culture and deviant sex that can only be described as massive and eternal.

And on this date in 2007, Caligula finally arrived on DVD in The Imperial Edition.

The exquisite release contained multiple versions of the movie, individual commentaries from stars Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, an interview with director Tinto Brass, two making-of documentaries, hours of deleted scenes and alternate takes, trailers, hundreds of photographs, and superstar author Gore Vidal’s original screenplay.

For fans of this one-of-a-kind epic of the perverse, Caligula: The Imperial Edition was the answer to countless prayers offered up to the Roman gods of orgies, rape, incest, fisting, bestiality, Teresa Ann Savoy, and all manner of other indulgences. Long may it make togas rise. more…

Immortal Sex and Beauty Icon Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, Took Her Own Life by Applying a Venomous Snake to Her Breast on This Date, 2,038 Years Ago.

Her rule of ancient Egypt is legendary.

She provided a signature role for screen vamps Theda Bara and Elizabeth Taylor.

She has served as the subject of numerous highbrow and lowbrow films alike.

And she laid down some of the most crucial cornerstones of goth-girl culture.

For those reasons, among others, Cleopatra lives on as one of humanity's -- and, especially, Hollywood's -- truly timeless glamor goddesses.

Learn more, and see some naked pyramids, after the jump. more…

Flesh-Happy Filmmaker Tinto Brass's Sex-Soaked Nazi Brothel Drama Salon Kitty Gets the Special Edition DVD Treatment on This Date in 2003.

The magnificent grindhouse archaeologists at Blue Underground, who had previously issued vintage skin classics such as Emanuelle in America and Eugenie
... The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion, outdid themselves by releasing a double-disc DVD special edition of erotic maestro Tinto Brass's lavish Third Reich brothel drama, Salon Kitty.

Aside from being the classiest product of the bizarre, only-in-the-'70s Nazisploitation subgenre (which includes Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, Love Camp 7, and SS Experiment), Salon Kitty nabbed Brass the job of directing Caligula, for which he brought along leading lady Teresa Ann Savoy.

Salon Kitty contains scenes of sweeping female nudity along with joltingly perverted kinks -- and we thank Blue Underground for doing this overstuffed cavalcade of arousing atrocities right.

To see just exactly what might be depicted in the above photo, as well as for a Der Furry look at full-frontal Teresa Ann Savoy, click and jump. more…

On this date in 68, the Roman Emperor Nero, last of the Julio-Claudian line, committed suicide following a coup in which the Senate declared him an enemy of the state and bribed his bodyguards to betray him. The successor to his adopted father Claudius, who had succeeded Nero's uncle Caligula in 51, Nero, like his uncle Caligula, was notorious for his excesses and proclivities (though many of these may have been exaggerated by historians like Suetonius and Tacitus). According to the histories, Nero had his own mother Agrippina murdered, executed the apostles Peter and Paul as part of his ongoing persecutions of Christians, set fire to Rome and sang as it blazed, and castrated and married a young slave named Sporus, To learn more about Nero's debauched exploits, visit your local library or go rent the skin-friendly mini-series I, Claudius (1976). Or better yet, the unrated deluxe edition of the Tinto Brass classic Caligula (1979). You'll go from Nero to Sticky in 30 seconds! more…

According to legend, today is the day when twin brothers Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome in 743 BC. The brothers, suckled by a she-wolf and raised by a shepherd after their uncle left them to die as infants, eventually grew up and founded the city on the Palatine, the first of the seven hills of Rome. From its birth until the Visigoth king Alaric I sacked the city in AD 410, Rome gave us all sorts of things to appreciate. There were spectacular orgies that are still the stuff of legend, sexually depraved emperors like Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, and state-sanctioned temple prostitution. Brother-sister incest was a tolerated, if not accepted, practice in the royal bloodlines and male fisting was a popular form of entertainment in the imperial palaces. Granted, almost everything I know about Roman history comes from watching movies like Caligula (1979), but who knows more about the history of Italy than Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, an actual Italian? I submit that no one does. more…