# Your first movie nudity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402 "2009-06-01T20:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/1 "2009-06-01T20:10:43Z")
Inspired by my own [first scary movie thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=519360). The first actress I remember seeing naked is either Julie Andrews in S.O.B.(1981) or Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places(1983). In all likelihood JA was probably first but since I saw these movies on HBO, I can’t be sure. My memory of JA is kinda cloudy. I just remember that I had seen it but I definitely remember JLC standing in the mirror taking off the wig and dress. I had no bedtime on weekends and HBO, Cinemax et al provided great entertainment back in my ‘early’ 😉 teens. This [Entertainment Weekly article](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20033899,00.html) talks about golden age of the teen sex comedy and how it was kinda difficult to see naked boobies in the 80s. Those were good times. Fast Times at Ridgemont High \> American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/2 "2009-06-01T20:14:00Z")
Revenge of the Nerds! First male nudity? Life of Brian! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/3 "2009-06-01T20:14:10Z")
**Airplane!** Age 14, in the theater, with my parents sitting next to me. The “OK, Panic” light goes on inside the plane, chaos ensues, and suddenly, there’s a blonde lass shaking her impressive, nekkid gazongas at the camera. Half of me was enthused, the other half wanted to crawl under the seat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/4 "2009-06-01T20:14:36Z")
I don’t know if this counts because I don’t think she was technically nude, but my first impression of movie nudity came from a scene in _[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/)_. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/5 "2009-06-01T20:17:10Z")
Airplane for me too. I wore out my VHS of that movie by pausing it too much. As for male nudity, it had to be the random naked guy laying down in the asylum at the beginning of Amadeus. I thrived on the soft-core stuff that HBO and Cinemax had back in the late 80s/early 90s. 3AM on a Sunday? Was that a noise? Change the channel, TV off, pretend to be asleep! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/6 "2009-06-01T20:17:57Z")
_Logan’s Run_. Jenny Agutter and some guy (coulda been Michael York; all I cared about was how disappointed I was that it wasn’t me) were dripping wet in an ice cave, and needed to change into some handy parkas that [del]Reverend Preacherbot[/del] Rosco Lee Brownebot brought them. But first they had to get out of the wet things. Thank you, Jenny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/7 "2009-06-01T20:26:10Z")
Brooke Shields in Blue Lagoon. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/8 "2009-06-01T20:29:04Z")
My first for both male and female nudity was a movie little remembered today, “Buster and Billie”. Jan-Michael Vincent was the guy, I think the girl was Joan Goodfellow, but I’m guessing. I guess she didn’t do much after that. She put in a good performance, but she had hardly any dialogue. Interesting film. I remembered it far longer than the picture I had gone there to see “Law and Disorder”, a rather brutal comedy featuring Ernest Borgnine and Carroll O’Connor! ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/9 "2009-06-01T20:36:32Z")
Barbarella 1968. It was hard to see Jane any other way for years. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/10 "2009-06-01T20:36:38Z")
No idea what it was, but I’m sure it was on HBO. Possibly one of the burlesque shows they used to do. I’d been looking at my dad’s _Penthouse_s and _Hustler_s since I was 7 or so, so it was actually kind of a letdown. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/11 "2009-06-01T20:36:59Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > **Airplane!** Age 14, in the theater, with my parents sitting next to me. The “OK, Panic” light goes on inside the plane, chaos ensues, and suddenly, there’s a blonde lass shaking her impressive, nekkid gazongas at the camera. Half of me was enthused, the other half wanted to crawl under the seat. 🙂 Same for me at the time but I was only four years old watched it in the theater with my parents and grandparents. I knew I was heterosexual at a very young age so it was pop a boner time. OTOH, I was still free to see my parents naked at that age so that took some of the novelty out of such things. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/12 "2009-06-01T20:37:52Z")
Probably Ursula Andress in _The Blue Max_. I would have been 9, maybe 10 when I saw that in the theater. I knew what to look for, because I had seen photos of the scene in my father’s Playboys. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/13 "2009-06-01T20:40:48Z")
College, she and I were both drunk and we decided to get the camcorder out… Oh- never mind. Probably _Blue Lagoon_. Sproinnnnnggggg!!! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/14 "2009-06-01T20:43:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Probably Ursula Andress in _The Blue Max_. I would have been 9, maybe 10 when I saw that in the theater. I knew what to look for, because I had seen photos of the scene in my father’s Playboys. Ah, yes, the annual _Sex in the Cimena_ issue. Every December the kids had the Sears Catalog Wishbook, and the dads had a wishbook of their own… ---
**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:** [June 1, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/15 "2009-06-01T20:45:17Z")
I don’t remember the title (or the plot really). A college guy was caught spying on a group of sorority girls in their house. They captured and stripped him. He had to make his way back to the frat house buck naked. It was made in the 80s or late 70s (back when men could have body hair). First female nudity was Linnea Quigley in **Return of the Living Dead** when I was 6 or 7. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/16 "2009-06-01T20:53:50Z")
I believe the answer to this and the other (first horror movie) thread would be The Amnityville Horror. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/17 "2009-06-01T20:56:54Z")
Both _Police Academy_ & _Revenge of the Nerds_ came out in 1984 so I’m not sure which one I saw first. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/18 "2009-06-01T20:58:48Z")
I think Trading Places. I watched that movie a lot as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/19 "2009-06-01T20:59:50Z")
First male nudity was possibly Mandy Patinkin’s in YENTL. He went skinnydipping and though he had a completely unmemorable backside and flabby white body, I was 16 and turned on by most anything nekkid. The first I can remember watching on a loop on the VCR whenever I had the TV/VCR to myself (which was extremely rare) was a recording of _Romeo & Juliet_ (the [Leonard Whiting/Olivia Hussey](http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/comp/novel_film/images/palmers.jpg)version) that somehow aired uncut on late night TV ca. '82/'83. Whiting was the subject of Ishtar knows how many of my facilitated fantasies in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/20 "2009-06-01T21:07:03Z")
It was Airplane! for me, I believe I was 11 when I saw it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402.md?page=2)