Number 96. Prime time network television in Australia, mid 70’s. Full frontal nudity. Thirty years ago as a young kid, and guess what, I lived! This country has some serious hangups about sexuality.
Steambath was more of a boob photographed from the rear, really.
Probably The Seduction. God, what a trashy movie.
Late 60’s, the movie The Hawaiians. It was rated “M”, which is PG now. A Japanese girl got out of the communal bath tub. I was 13 or 14, but the skin didn’t move me, as I’m female myself, and straight. But I’d never seen anyone other than myself naked, so it was an eye opener!
God I remember that! When I was a kid the local UHF channel would show something I think called Spectravision. The image was split so the right side of the image was on the left side of the screen and vice versa. The color was warped and sometimes the sound failed. That didn’t stop me from staying up late hoping for a glimpse of glory. My TV was an old clunker but I found that if I hit it in just the right place that the picture would stay unscrambled for about 5 minutes at a time.
Hey, when you’re thirteen years old sneaking downstairs to watch a dirty latenight HBO flick, it RAWKS!
I remember “Picasso Porn” too.
Thanks for the “sleep-over at your friends house” memories.
Too funny!
Oh. My. Goodness. Yes!
(fans self)
”Picasso Porn”!!! Never thought of that expression.
Yeah, my friends would stay over so we could play D&D (yes, I was a geek. Why do you ask?) and we’d try to watch the movies. Eventually it got so frustrating that we’d just put on regular TV. Of course, this was around 1980 and we didn’t have cable yet so the late night viewing selection was pretty slim. I bet you younger posters have never seen a station signing off for the night!
For me, it was almost certainly Monty Python’s Flying Circus on PBS, though strangely it didn’t really register as unusual at that point. I had a hard enough time just trying to interpret the British humor at that age.
Other than that, I distinctly recall being startled by unexpected female nudity during a TV broadcast of the otherwise eminently forgettable post-apocalyptic film Endgame, starring some Italian people. One of the local stations in Pittsburgh (channel 53, maybe?) used to run that movie about once a month, Saturday night at 1 AM, long after anyone who might object was asleep.
My first glimpse of female architecture in the theater would probably have been courtesy of Caitlin Clarke during the film Dragonslayer.
The first time I saw any substantial nudity was Natasha Henstridge in Species, when I was just into puberty. It was the first time I really saw a naked breast, how it moved. The first time I was ever aroused by a woman wan the previous summer, by Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, but she was only in lingerie.
The first time I remember seeing a boob on TV, I was about 18 (we didn’t have TV in the house growing up). It was Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet, so Olivia Hussey?
In the movies I don’t remember, but likely before that since we went to all manner of foreign films.
Donald Sutherland’s Butt in Animal House.
Somehow, I survived, but I still remember the gaping teenage boys in the room watching the pillow fight scene in that movie.
It might not have been your parents. Non-premium cable channels often showed edited versions of movies, sometimes even having alternate takes of certain shots. For instance, in the theatrical (and DVD) version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Brooke Adams strides through the pod greenhouse topless (her duplicate, just hatched), while in the television version she does so wearing a blouse.