Throughout the late 1980s, beloved Chicago film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert campaigned for a rating to replace the MPAA’s dreaded X which, at first, had been used to designate all manner of films containing patently adult content (such as the 1968 Best Picture Academy Award winner Midnight Cowboy).

In the wake of Deep Throat, however, the X-rating became synonymous with hardcore pornography. Siskel and Ebert led the charge for a new rating – they suggested “A” (for adult) – that could be applied to non-sexploitation films that were intended for audiences over the age of 17.

The MPAA ultimately concocted the NC-17 rating, which stands for No Children Under 17, and the first film to reach the public bearing its imprimatur was flesh-friendly director Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June, which opened in theaters on this date in 1990.

Henry & June stars Fred Ward and young Uma Thurman in the titular roles, as libertine author Henry Miller and his omnisexual gamine wife June. The story focuses specifically on their mutual sexual entanglements with erotic writer Anaïs Nin -- scorchingly embodied by Maria de Madeiros -- in 1920s Paris.

Uma and Maria explode in a lust-tastic lesbian scene, and the rest of the movie is chock full of naked nubiles (including Brigitte Lahaie) celebrating sexual freedom as they truly did – and as the NC-17 rating, finally, made possible. more…

Throughout the Month of October, Count Down the Sexiest Nude Horror Movie Hotties of All Time!

Number 27: Sheri Moon

Shapely glamour ghoul Sheri Moon is the real-life wife and morbid muse of rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie.

She’s lit up each of her hubby’s unhinged cinematic offerings by showcasing her own scary-hot moon.

Prepare to get stiff over Sheri’s ass-less chaps and skeleton-pinched nip in House of 1000 Corpses.

Then steel yourself for her crack-tackular revelations in The Devils’s Rejects.

Finally, you’ll be jacking your lantern all-hallow’s-eve-long when you witness cheekilicious Sheri storm a strip-club stage in Zombie’s 2007 Halloween remake.

Sheri Moon, it’s terrifying how much you make us swoon! more…

Throughout the Month of October, Count Down the Sexiest Nude Horror Movie Hotties of All Time!

Number 29: Andrea Bogart

Nudecomer Andrea Bogart has built up quite the body of howlingly hot work so far in her fright-flick career … even though she’s only three movies deep.

Just consider the bones that Missouri-native Andrea has already rattled with her lesbian chow-down opposite Sasha Williams in the lycanthropic lust tale DarkWolf; her crack-tacular exposer in Axe (perhaps showing where the titular weapon split her); and her terrific toplessness in Dark Ride (which prompts a rating of “Three Thumbs Up!”).

A Scream Queen in nude bloom, when it comes to nakedness, Andrea does not Bogart her best parts. more…

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…

Virtually from the moment the fighting stopped, erotic takes on World War II became a mainstay of cheap porn paperbacks and lowbrow sexploitation movies.

Those boundaries (among others) expanded with the heady, high-class art film The Night Porter, which opened in theaters on this date in 1974.

Charlotte Rampling stars as a concentration camp survivor who comes across Dirk Bogarde as the commandante who once kept her as a sexual slave. Now he’s working in the lowly job of the title at a Vienna Hotel.

Rather than turn her former Nazi tormentor in, though, Charlotte revives their kinky relationship, and The Night Porter pushes cinema into areas that are as uncomfortable as they are arousing.

Controversy flared up around The Night Porter upon its release. Three-decades-plus later, it continues to provoke thoughts both intellectual and … otherwise. more…

Dominique Arganese, Canadian Fashion Hottie, Is Rumored to Be Blowing Away Verne Troyer

The Hollywood Gossip reports that luscious, raven-maned Canadian model Dominque Arganese is the latest towering romantic conquest of pint-sized Austin Powers and reality TV superstar Verne Troyer.

After checking out Dominque’s portfolio on We Select Models, Mr. Skin can state most emphatically that he’s now eager to see a sequel to Verne’s recently released home sex video. more…

There was a time before the world saw and fell in love with Maggie Gyllenhaal nude. And there’s everything that’s happened since then. The dividing line is marked by the release of the ultra-kinky cult sensation Secretary -- which opened in theaters on this date in 2002.

Secretary deservedly made a skinstant star of Maggie Gyllenhaal, who brilliantly embodies the titular figure-- a submissive office assistant to domineering lawyer James Spader. Their relationship evolves into full-blown S&M sex-mania, while an undercurrent of true passion and a believable love story makes the movie a one-of-a-kind classic.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has since gone on to bare her lusciously lanky naked body in Strip Search, Happy Endings, and Sherrybaby. But it all began with Secretary. Press play to watch Mr. Skin’s Skinstant Classic salute. more…

Jessica Alba in bondage. For change. (Yeeeah!)

Christina Aguilera demands vanilla candles backstage at MTV VMAs. For WHAT?! (I'm Not Obsessed)

A-ho’s, mateys! Porn epic Pirates: Stagnetti’s Revenge trailer premieres. (AVN)

Nicole Eggert says: "Piece-of-ash ex burned me with cigarettes!" (TMZ)

Rump for cover! Kim Kardashian’s kid sis Kourtney Kardashian konceals kaboose. (Fox News)

Rack to school: sexy songs about teachers. (The Frisky)

One Olympic swimmer topless, one Olympic diver nip slip. (The Nip Slip)

Johnny P. Good! Chuck Berry’s legendary underground piss-porn video to get legit release. (AVN) more…

What’s Up, Dick? You Are -- Because Munn’s The Word!

Flisted.com is attributing some mo(i)st skinteresting quotes to Olivia Munn, resident hottie on the G4 geek-fest Attack of the Show.

“I’d like to be stalked by Shia LaBeouf. I’d like him to one day become obsessed with me, be outside my door every day, and I’m like, ‘Shia, dear God, go shoot Indiana Jones!’ And he’s like, ‘No, I love you. Transformers 2 is coming out, and I need you to be in it because I can’t work another day without seeing your face.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, Shia, I just can’t.’”

But(t) what’s that about planting a carrot in the most organic of mud? Read more after the jump. more…

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. more…

Breast-Selling Sex Writer Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Video Trailer for Her New Book Gets, Fittingly Enough, Spanked

Curvaceous literary sex goddess and Mr. Skin Skinterview subject Rachel Kramer Bussel has authored yet another carnal compendium. This one is titled Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, and it makes good -- very good -- on the promise of its name.

Ever inventive Rachel also created a video trailer to promote Spanked, only to have it removed by her usual hosting services Flickr and Vimeo.

See more of Rachel Kramer Bussel nude after the jump, plus answers to the question: What celebrity bad girl would you most like to spank? more…

Nowhere Man marks the 100th credited film role of B-movie bombshell Debbie Rochon.

Debbie Rochon is everything a B-movie fan could hope for in a screamingly sexy starlet. She's gorgeous, she's funny, she's smart, she happily endures all manner of mayhem on screen and, good heavens, is she prolific.

Fittingly, her top is often nowhere to be found in the pitch-black castration comedy Nowhere Man, which arrived in video stores on this date in 2005.

Nudity was a hallmark of dozens of Debbie's previous efforts, and it's a tradition she's carried over into her dozens of subsequent releases.

And, as always with Debbie Rochon, it's a thrill to see her as nature intended—bare, brazen, and bouncing her not-totally-natural knockers around so beguilingly. No wonder she's the most Skinterviewed actress in the history of MrSkin.com!

For a peek at Debbie's peaks, join us after the jump.

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