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John Harrison is the pied piper of sleaze. A passionate advocate of all things weird and wild, John is a collector and expert on a number of sordid subjects including comic books, amusement parks, horror movies, true crime, stag films (Anal Dwarf is one of his prize possessions), and vintage paperback novels.

John is also the author of Hip Pocket Sleaze, the definitive book on paperback pulp from Headpress Books. Hip Pocket Sleaze is not only an entertaining and insightful overview of the pulp paperback and its many interesting incarnations- lesbian pulp, Nazisploitation, sexploitation, hippiesploitation, and more- but also a handy how-to guide on how to get some of these lurid, lusty and oddly fascinating vintage books into your grubby little hands.

A freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia, John has written for scads of print and online publications (including the Mr Skin blog!), is currently working on a new book, Rene Bond: America's Tragic Teenage Fantasy.

Check out our fascinating (Sk)interview with John Harrison after the jump!

Sure, there are more famous movies about the 60's- Hair, Easy Rider- but for Mr. Skin's money, nothing encapsulates the nature-loving spirit of this carefree era better than Erica Gavin and her outstanding outdoor nudity in Erika's Hot Summer(1970). Pretty much all mammoth-mammed Erica, fresh off perv-formances in Russ Meyer's Vixen! and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, is given to do in this flick is frolic nude in the countryside. And frolic she does, stripping down completely naked for fully nude triple-B action!

The plot of Erika's Hot Summer centers on a jaded nudie photographer whose life takes a titacular turn when he meets the girl of his dreams- nature girl Erika. They boff on the beach and grind in the grass, and everything seems perfect until the photog's psycho ex-girlfriend, played by Playboy model Merci Montello, arrives on the scene.

But you don't watch a movie like Erika's Hot Summer for the plot, you watch it for the boobs, and Erica Gavin's mind-melting all-natural rackage delivers. She kicks off the film by kicking off her bikini for a fully nude skinny dip, and when the lovers literally run into each other's arms, Erica's huge hanging hooters sway and jiggle in a hypnotic sequence guaranteed to raise your thermometer.

So the next time you're about to drive to the corner store or throw away an aluminum can, think of Erica Gavin and her massive milk jugs and ask yourself: If we destroy our natural habitat, where will the big-breasted women of the future skinny dip? Or sunbathe nude? Or frolic topless? (T)it's a truly chilling proposition.

Celebrate nature's bounty with all-natural beauty Erica Gavin and Mr. Skin's archive of outdoor nudity right here on MrSkin.com!

A weekly look back at past celeb nudity happenings of note, ranging from the earliest days of famous females to today’s hottest starlets.

Get the in-depth facts and figures on skincredible events that have happened throughout skintertainment history during the week of November 15th through November 21st.

The week’s lesson in lusty cultural high points includes Angelina Jolie getting nakedly animated in Beowulf, Megan Fox leaking her hottest photos ever online, master of all things massive mammary Russ Meyer busting out Mondo Topless, skintastic filmmaker Robert Altman passing on, the rescue and restoration of the lost Australian sexploitation classics Fantasm and Fantasm Comes Again, and the publication of Fanny Hill, the erotic novel that shocked the world and still keeps readers coming.

1969 stands as the year that pop culture evolved from the mass grooviness of Woodstock and the far-out giant leap of the moon landing to the horror of the Manson Family murders and the Hells Angels stomping out flower power at Altamont.

It was also the year that Hollywood erupted with new creative freedom, emboldened by expanding societal mores and the new MPAA rating system.

Filmmakers could now dip into the palette of patently adult material, including coarse language, unflinching violence, and, most importantly, sex and nudity.

Let’s trip on back to 1969 and dig nine classic nude scenes from that headiest of daze gone by.

1. EASY RIDER
Toni Basil
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Toni strips full-frontally nude in a New Orleans cemetery while tripping on LSD.

Easy Rider is indisputably one of the hippie era’s ultimate artistic statements. Toni Basil’s “Hey Mickey!” video is one of the most indelible media images of the 1980s. How interesting that one cultural touchstone unwittingly begat another. On acid. Naked.