# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/21 "2009-06-01T21:15:28Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > _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. 🙂 Jenny Agutter supplied more top-quality nudity in [_An American Werewolf In London_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082010/). That tape, long with _The Boob Tube_ and _Kentucky Fried Movie_ got a bit of wear. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/22 "2009-06-01T21:23:02Z")
When I was a kid, my folks took us to a drive-in and we saw the movie “Joe”. Og help me, the first person I saw nude in a film may have been Peter Boyle. This explains so much. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/23 "2009-06-01T21:30:31Z")
It was the second Dirty Harry movie, called \*\*Magnum Force \*\*if I remember right. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/24 "2009-06-01T21:31:40Z")
I’m sure whoever it was, my parents made me forget 🙂 Yeah sorry, I just can’t remember. The first one I do remember seeing was the hilarious nude scene in American Pie. I’m sure it wasn’t my first nude scene though. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/25 "2009-06-01T21:38:16Z")
Natasha Henstridge in **Species.** Honorable mention goes to **True Lies** , which came out about a year earlier. The scene with Jamie Lee Curtis stripping was the first time I really got aroused. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/26 "2009-06-01T22:08:28Z")
I think it was [The First Nudie Musical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074533/). I might have seen glimpses of nudity on the screen before that but it didn’t really register as sexual. What really stands out for me was the sheer variety and quantity of nudity and just plain naughtieness and campyness of that movie at the time. It was also something I knew I shouldn’t be watching, It was playing as second run on one of the cable channels in the very early eighties. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/27 "2009-06-01T22:35:24Z")
_Stripes_. “Oh, God, I wish I was a Loofa!” I must have played that scene over and over on the Laserdisc at least 50 times whenever my parents were out of the house. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/28 "2009-06-01T22:36:18Z")
I saw _Frenzy_ when it was released. With my parents. Saw boobies, no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/29 "2009-06-01T22:37:28Z")
The Steve McQueen movie Papillon. When he escapes from the camp and ends up in a South American “Indian” village where the women are topless and he finds a girlfriend. This for some reason I never did understand was shown uncut on network TV in the mid 70’s. At 12 years old it was a delightful surprise. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/30 "2009-06-01T22:42:35Z")
Slapshot. HBO Mom in the room with me and all of my brothers. Woman sits up in bed, her boobs come bouncing out, and no one said a word. Or turned their head. Until the hockey game starts back up. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/31 "2009-06-01T23:02:50Z")
JoBeth Williams in Kramer vs Kramer. I was like 8 and seeing the movie with my mom but it is definately etched in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/32 "2009-06-01T23:08:05Z")
The Harrad Experiment. HBO. I was 9 years old. BTW, Don Johnson was in that. > **[The Harrad Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harrad_Experiment)** > > The Harrad Experiment is a 1973 coming-of-age film about a fictional school called Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this film deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution, which took place in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. > The movie stars James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren as the married couple who run the school, and include... Melanie Griffith is listed as an extra The first time nudity seemed to matter to me was the movie _Embryo_ where the girl twirls naked before the mirror. My father actually asked me to close my eyes. It was still HBO. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/33 "2009-06-01T23:23:14Z")
I’m sure I remember them as nuder than they actually were, but… There was a scene in **Billy Jack** where our hero interrupts the loser bad guy making out or skinny dipping or something with a voluptuous babe. As she scrambles to get her clothes together, she says “You’re not gonna look, are you?” To this, our hero replies “Probably.” A few years later, Barbara Bach in a submarine shower scene in **The Spy Who Loved Me**. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/34 "2009-06-01T23:30:38Z")
**Blowup** - 1966…Sure Vanessa Redgrave was attractive, but the two teenagers - ya saw cute little boobies and pubic hair…wow! (well, at the time it was a “wow!” I had wet dreams for a week - OK, OK, it was more like 27 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, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/35 "2009-06-01T23:35:05Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I’m sure I remember them as nuder than they actually were, but… > > _[snip]_ > > A few years later, Barbara Bach in a submarine shower scene in **The Spy Who Loved Me**. I can assure you, there’s no “real” nudity there. Trust me, I’ve looked. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/36 "2009-06-01T23:35:37Z")
The movie H.O.T.S ---
**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:** [June 1, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/37 "2009-06-01T23:40:15Z")
1968, **Planet of the Apes** – Charlton Heston’s bare butt. I think that was the first on-screen nudity both Pepper Mill and I saw (although we didn’t know each other at the time). I’m not sure what the first female nudity I saw was, but the first I can recall was **The Hawaiians** , the second movie to be based on James Michener’s novel _Hawaii_. There’s a scene where Charlton Heston (again!) gets into a Japanese bath with a lot of Japanese ladies. There was some very gratuitous female nudity. I recall a female comedian say that the movie’s **GP** rating\* stood for "Get Popcorn, which is what she told her 13 year old son to do at that point. \*The second tier rating, above **G** for “General” audiences, was originally **M** for “Mature”. But they changed it, maybe because they thought too many people would be frightened off, thinking it meant Dirty \ **Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/38 "2009-06-01T23:47:29Z") Either Zeffirelli’s _Romeo and Juliet_ in 1968 or _Rosemary’s Baby_ in the same year. Can’t remember which I saw first. …and no one in either movie was all _that_ nude anyway, were they? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/39 "2009-06-01T23:48:35Z")
“Animal House,” when Bluto is on the ladder. Although, a few years earlier, my eyes nearly popped out of my head when the late, lovely Brenda Benet oozed out of the back room of the Lucky Spot tavern in “Walking Tall,” and you could see right thru her outfit–on network TV! And, not nude, but still a great scene for us teens in that era: The “car wash” scene in “Cool Hand Luke.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/40 "2009-06-02T00:21:07Z")
I’m not sure, but the first one I remember (and hardly the first) was a weird short subject called “The Bed” that I saw as a college freshman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402.md?page=3)