# What was the first movie that made you horny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272 "2016-02-05T21:40:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/1 "2016-02-05T21:40:26Z")
I had a crush on some TV stars earlier than this, but the first movie that really got me going was _Ryan’s Daughter_. I was 12 and I don’t think my parents had any idea how explicitly sexual (for the time) it was going to be. For my dad, an Irish immigrant, it was enough that it was set in Ireland and about the revolution. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/2 "2016-02-05T21:48:16Z")
I don’t remember if it was the first one but Jenny Agutter in _Logan’s Run_ definitely got my attention. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/3 "2016-02-05T21:50:40Z")
Twin Cheeks. Obviously a parody of a TV show called Twin peaks. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/4 "2016-02-05T22:00:22Z")
One of the Sinbad movies – I don’t recall which one – where Caroline Munro was the cutie in the tight shirt. (“Seventh Voyage,” I think, but I’m not sure.) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/5 "2016-02-05T22:01:16Z")
[Private Lessons](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082948/?ref_=nv_sr_2), starring the incomparable Sylvia Kristel, is responsible for giving me the first erection I recall. We use to have a cable-like service called (I think) StarTV, which was just like one additional channel from basic network TV\*. My parents had went out to dinner or something, and my older brother and I were watching this channel when this movie came on. It co-starred, of all people, Howard Hesseman and Ed Begley, Jr. Sylvia has several topless scenes (or so I remember…I haven’t watched it since, as I don’t want to ruin my memory), and I remember getting hard. I didn’t know WHY it happened. Only that it did. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/6 "2016-02-05T22:12:05Z")
1 Million Years BC. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/7 "2016-02-05T22:33:05Z")
_ **Some Like It Hot** _, which I saw in 1959 at the tender age of four. At\*\* no\*\* time in my life have I been as aroused as I was watching Marilyn Monroe sing on stage. :o ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/8 "2016-02-05T22:48:27Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > One of the Sinbad movies – I don’t recall which one – where Caroline Munro was the cutie in the tight shirt. (“Seventh Voyage,” I think, but I’m not sure.) For me there were kind of two “firsts”: When I saw “7th Voyage of Sinbad” and Caroline Munro, I was pre-adolescent. So it was kind of like “schwinnng” without understanding what I was so excited about. But when I saw Katherine Ross undressing in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, I was old enough to understand, and that was the closest I got to embarrassing myself (“prematurely” if you get my drift) in a movie theater. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/9 "2016-02-05T22:59:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I don’t remember if it was the first one but Jenny Agutter in _Logan’s Run_ definitely got my attention. Weirdly enough, that might have been my first as well. Though maybe “horny” isn’t quite the right word in this case - I was prepubescent at that point. But caught my fascinated attention in some vaguely sexual way, yep. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/10 "2016-02-05T23:59:14Z")
Barbarella. I think my exact thoughts were _A naked lady? What’s the point of – oh, I get it now._ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/11 "2016-02-06T00:35:24Z")
Don’t remember the name of it, but I remember Sophia Loren. Boing! ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/12 "2016-02-06T03:43:58Z")
It was some dumb afternoon TV special for me. I don’t even remember what it was about and it obviously didn’t have any nudity but there was a scene that got my heart pounding (among other things) and I remember wondering what was going on. About 30 seconds later the “GIRLS!” switch turned on and it hasn’t been off since. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/13 "2016-02-06T04:00:46Z")
Single White Female when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/14 "2016-02-06T04:15:51Z")
When I was old enough to respond sexually… All of them (for a stretch, anyway!) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/15 "2016-02-06T04:20:15Z")
Wow, it’s really difficult to say. All the overwhelming feelings of shame and fear and guilt and horror are crowding in to cloud my memories. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/16 "2016-02-06T05:01:11Z")
_Saturday Night Fever_. Even watching it on a small black-and-white TV set with a coat hanger antenna, watching John Travolta primping in a mirror while wearing nothing but bikini briefs was “a new sensation” for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/17 "2016-02-06T05:23:47Z")
I’m sure there were ones before but _Fanny Hill_ on HBO or Cinimax late one night at a friends house caught my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/18 "2016-02-06T05:58:00Z")
_Summer of '42_. Jennifer O’Neill – wow. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/19 "2016-02-06T06:31:40Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I’m sure there were ones before but _Fanny Hill_ on HBO or Cinimax late one night at a friends house caught my attention. … there’s a movie version of _Fanny Hill_? Gosh-darn. What won’t they think of next? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272/20 "2016-02-06T06:50:08Z")
Really can’t remember. I used to get excited by _The Benny Hill Show_ and _Carry On_ films. I do have strong memories of the scene in _Alien_ when Ripley strips to her undies as she gets into the spacesuit (a very conflicting scene of eroticism and fear). But I’m sure I was affected by a movie before then. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-that-made-you-horny/745272.md?page=2)