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1974 may have been the year Caged Heat hit the silver screen, but it was also a great year for uncaged bush, perv-ticularly skinternational snatch! In 1974, viewers got big-screen box from France (Emmanuelle), Sweden (Thriller: A Cruel Picture), Poland (Immoral Tales), Italy (The Night Porter) Britain (Games Girls Play), and of course some good old American apple pie (Big Bad Mama, Flesh Gordon). And this is only the beginning of the nude delights of this fanny-tastic year!

Feast your eyes on some of Mr. Skin's favorite furburgers of 1974 after the jump!

"You're doing the Lord's work, Mr. Skin"
-Adam Carolla

Mr. Skin's quest for world media domination continues, and last night he sat down with his good pal Adam Carolla to discuss Holy Grail hooters, Flesh Gordon fakeouts, the Anatomy Awards, and much much more! You can download Adam's podcast- just the #1 daily downloaded podcast in the world, no big deal- by searching "Adam Carolla" on iTunes (Mr. Skin's on the 3/8/11 episode), or on Adam's website.

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.

One of the most popular softcore smashes of all time, Flesh Gordon rocketed into neighborhood theaters across the country on this date in 1974.

Upon touching down in local cinemas, the sexually explicit, cosmically comical Flesh Gordon ran continuously for more than a year.

It then became a reliable re-release and a smash in the fledgling days of home video, before living on as a midnight movie favorite--where Flesh continues to circulate (and titillate) today.

For more on innocent entertainment gone orgasmically orbital during the me(at) decade, launch your rocket after the jump.