Each Tuesday, be sure to check in with Mr Skin to get the complete skinny right here on the hottest DVD releases. Here is the randy round-up for the week of November 11, 2008. more…

Orally Obsessed Obscure Oration of Overt Onanism Opens Other Orifices

In 1994, forty years after its publication, the world learned the identity of the woman who wrote the famed erotic novel of dominance and submission The Story of O, the most masturbated-to work of literature ever to win the Prix des Deux Magots.

Anne Desclos, the novel’s author, was a respected journalist and literary figure linked to writers like T.S. Eliot and Evelyn Waugh. She was a bisexual in life, and wrote the novel when her boyfriend, Jean Paulhan, suggested to her that women couldn’t write pornography.

Two years later, using the nom-de-porn Jeanne de Berg, another French woman, Catherine Robbe-Grillet (wife of Alain Robbe-Grillet, father of the Nouveau Roman), wrote the similarly-themed The Image, which inspired Radley Metzger’s The Punishment of Anne.

In 1975, Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin made a film version with Corrine Clery as O, Li Sellgren as her lesbian lover Jacqueline, Udo Kier as her first master Rene, and (after Christopher Lee turned down the role), Anthony Steel as Sir Steven, the man to whom Rene gives her as a slave.

Just as his Emmanuelle did one year ago, Just Jaeckin’s The Story of O will get a special edition release on Blu-ray November 11.

Read more after the whip. more…

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. more…

Ten years after she scared the pants off of the world with her portrayal of demonic possession victim Regan in The Exorcist, Linda Blair had audiences’ pants off for another reason when she showed off her heavy hooters getting soaped up in the shower by big-breasted blonde lesbian Sybil Danning in the women-in-prison classic Chained Heat. Throughout the '80s and early '90s, Linda continued to display her dairy bombs in movies like Night Patrol, Savage Streets, Bedroom Eyes II, and Zapped Again! She even appeared in the porno magazine Oui in 1982, along with Demi Moore and Pia Zadora. In 1985 Linda had a second close encounter of the lez kind, this time with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel in yet another women-in-prison flick, Red Heat. Click below to watch a video tribute to Linda, and for the full skinny, upgrade to Mr. Skin Premium now. more…

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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Mr. Skin's Video Tribute To the Lesbian Sports-Movie Classic Personal Best

Long relegated to exploitation films such as the Emmanuelle and Black Emanuelle series, lesbianism finally came out of the softcore closet with a girl-girl bang in 1982 thanks to Robert Towne's salute to track-and-field Personal Best.

After three weeks packed with Olympic athletes in top physical form smacked each other's butts in the name of sportsmanship, Mr. Skin can think of no better way to celebrate the meeting of athletic competition and succulently bare female flesh than by saluting the top of the crop of lesbian sports movies in a Skinstant Classic video.

Press play for the skinny on Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly's Sapphic encounters. But don't be surprised when you find a javelin in your pants. more…

Eurasian sensation Laura Gemser combines the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous physical traits of her multiracial lineage with a superhuman inner sensuality that is all her own. Put simply, Laura Gemser embodies the very best that our human species has to offer.

The Indonesian-born bombshell is breast known as the skinvestigative reporter who serves as the title figure (and what a figure) in the Black Emanuelle film series.

Concocted to piggyback on the skinternational Emmanuelle phenomenon—the second installment of which includes Laura as a massage girl—the Black Emanuelle movies include relatively innocent (albeit insanely arousing) efforts such as Emanuelle in the Country and Emanuelle Around the World, as well as outrageous excursions on the order of Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals.

The innocuously titled Emanuelle in America is the most over-the-top(less) of them all and must be seen to be (barely) believed.

Of course, any film that features Laura Gemser and her amazingly natural bronzed-Barbie-doll body in the buff must be seen, period. So ease back and enjoy a salute to this stupefyingly sexy screen goddess. 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…

American Pie Presents: Beta House (Picture: 1) is the sixth skin-stallment in the world's reigning teen-sex-comedy juggernaut. Be sure to pick it up on DVD when it debuts the day after Christmas. There is no finer use for all those gift cards you got. MrSkin.com sat down with Beta House screenwriter Erik Lindsay to talk about his new movie, the previous Pies, and raunchy puberty farces of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. more…

"Any excuse is a good excuse to get naked."

These are words by which Mr. Skin lives and breathes, and, more skinportantly, they are the exact words that once dripped from the quivering lips of Indonesian-born eyeful Laura Gemser (Picture: 1), the undisputed goddess of '70s skinternational softcore cinema. more…

The filmography of world-renowned erotic auteur Just Jaeckin is studded with the most storied gems in the annals of skinternational cinema. Among the French filmmaker's enduring creations are The Story of O (1975) (Picture: 1), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) (Picture: 1), Gwendoline (1984) (Picture: 1), and, towering above them all, Emmanuelle (1974) (Picture: 1). more…