Girls in
Vice Squad (1982)

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.

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 4, 2008.

Iceberg Slim is the nom-de-poon of Robert Beck, author of the classic underworld novel Pimp: The Story of My Life, and creator of the urban “mack daddy” aesthetic. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on this date, in 1918.

The effect of Pimp on worldwide culture has been profound, to say the least.

Blaxploitation, hip-hop and even the use of the word “pimp” in every day human discourse owe their origins to Iceberg Slim.

For Mr. Skin this has meant numerous, awe-inspiring sexual superheroes in some of the most erotically provocative films ever made – ass-whoopers on the order of The Mack, Vice Squad, Streetwalkin', and the Angel series.

Get the skinny on Slim, and see evidence of how he forever changed Hollywood heat, after the cut.