# What was the first film with nudity that I/you saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486 "2007-03-04T00:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/1 "2007-03-04T00:21:55Z")
I don’t remember the title (if the following sounds familiar please tell me what it was). I was about 6 or 7 and it was either on cable or it was a rented video. This college guy was caught peeping/sneaking into a sorority house. The girls stripped him naked (apparently the film was made when hairy men were in style) and either he escaped or they threw him out. He had to make his way back to his fraternity, where alot of guys were lounging around in their underwear (mostly tighty-whities). So anyone else care to share their first memory of cinematic nudity or know what film I’m remembering? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/2 "2007-03-04T00:26:17Z")
Don’t Look Now. Quite the eye-opener, but it set the bar pretty high for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/3 "2007-03-04T00:28:02Z")
One of the first times I can remembers seeing nudity in a movie was _A Clockwork Orange_. I was maybe 10 or 11. I had to spend the early part of my childhood in the days before HBO or VCR’s, so it wasn’t easy for a kid to see boobies in movies yet. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/4 "2007-03-04T00:33:40Z")
The muffiness of “Risky Business.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/5 "2007-03-04T01:03:23Z")
“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.” I sneaked into it when I was 16 so I could say I watched an X-rated movie while underage. I lost much of my interest in X-rated movies for awhile, as a result. They didn’t have all that much sex and nudity, and they were really, revoltingly terrible, to judge from “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/6 "2007-03-04T01:37:35Z")
First film I saw with nudity was the original **Lord of the Flies** – bare butted Eng;lish schoolboys. The first film I saw in release with nudity (and the first adult nudity) was Charleton Heston in **Planet of the Apes** , 1968. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/7 "2007-03-04T01:41:32Z")
Didn’t **Blue Lagoon** have a naked sex scene in it? My memory is playing tricks on me. Other than that, I guess it was **Starship Troopers** in 7th grade. That shower scene… mmmmm… /drool. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/8 "2007-03-04T01:46:55Z")
I’m thinking **The Graduate.** ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/9 "2007-03-04T01:58:30Z")
My memory’s a bit fuzzy on this; it was either [Joe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065916/) or [The People Next Door](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066209/). At the time, it seems most films purporting to “expose the counterculture” had to have one or two nekkid hippie chicks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/10 "2007-03-04T02:12:46Z")
I don’t know if it was the absolute first, but I recall seeing _The Life of Brian_ at the age of 11. There’s a brief full-frontal shot of Brian’s girlfriend right before Brian’s mother confronts the mob outside their house. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/11 "2007-03-04T02:20:13Z")
There’s a brief full-frontal shot of Brian before the shot of the girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![nancy\_drew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@nancy\_drew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nancy_drew)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/12 "2007-03-04T02:23:45Z")
Ryan’s Daughter. At a drive-in. My parents thought I was asleep. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/13 "2007-03-04T02:45:46Z")
It must not have made much of an impression, because I can’t remember for sure. Was there nudity in **Easy Rider** or the **Billy Jack** movies? I remember being shocked by those movies, and not just by the violence, so I’m thinking there must have been bare breasts. For sure there was nudity in **Fanny Hill Meets Lady Chatterly’s Lover** , and I was pretty young when I saw that. In a porn theater. With my husband. Surrounded by old men with newspapers. 's what happens when you take a country girl to the big city. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/14 "2007-03-04T02:50:04Z")
I may have seen something or another when I was younger, but the first real one was seeing **Species** with Natasha Henstridge, in the theater. That is, she was in the movie, not with me. The summer before that, the first time I was really aroused was seeing Jamie Lee Curtis dancing in lingerie in True Lies. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/15 "2007-03-04T03:11:26Z")
In a generally released movie? **Nashville**. The brief shower scene in **M_A_S\*H** hardly counts. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/16 "2007-03-04T03:31:54Z")
It makes me laugh to see \*\*Spats \*\*remembered the full-frontal female but not the full-frontal male in _LoB_. As for me, I believe my first was Revenge of the Nerds for female, definitely LoB for male. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/17 "2007-03-04T04:05:09Z")
For me, it was probably _I, Claudius_ during its Masterpiece Theatre run. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/18 "2007-03-04T04:29:39Z")
I’m thinking the bathtub scene in _Serpico_. Full frontal nudity ( male or female ), probably was in fact _Life of Brian_. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/19 "2007-03-04T04:41:25Z")
_Starship Troopers._ Another vote for the drool. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/20 "2007-03-04T04:48:25Z")
[Walkabout](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/) We went to see it on a school excursion when I was about 8 or 9. Clearly the teachers hadn’t realised that Jenny Agutter displayed so much of herself in the film. You can imagine the reaction from a cinema full of schoolboys. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486.md?page=2)