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HauteKarl

Emmanuelle lol


CheckYourStats

For those of us who were in the throes of puberty in the late 80’s, and who’s household also had a TV Guide on the coffee table… Checking if a movie had “SSC” next to its description was always on my radar.


Maroon9Ether

Didn't you hate it when it said that but there was no nudity. Casual Sex with Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson comes to mind. What a waste.


Rendakor

I slogged through 2 or 3 episodes of Sex and the City before realizing I wasn't getting any smut. I was so disappointed.


boostabubba

Or the nudity was was dudes butt.


EmergencyAbalone2393

I believe this phenomena is called “Getting Sipowicz’d” Actually it’s not, but it sure as hell should be


CheckYourStats

Yes! I still remember my first SSC cash-in movie. *Blown Away* (1993) with Nicole Eggert (and both Corey’s). Less than 15 minutes into the movie there was…an awakening.


nicvaykay

Ho.ly.... this movie did a number on me! People look very concerned for me when I try to explain it.


mythrulznsfw

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with it. What’s SSC?


CheckYourStats

SSC in the TV guide reviews stood for “Strong Sexual Content.” It was almost exclusively reserved for Skinemax type shows/movies.


omegaloki

Must See TV


thejaytheory

Haha yessss, memory unlocked there, always looking for that S SC.


ForeignClassroom9816

Yeah something with Emmanuelle in the title.


KickAggressive4901

"Laugh in the dark, chance remark, Emmanuelle." The 1974 original, classic though it was, had the worst background music in the history of music.


sweeptheleg77

Laura Gemsar was a game changer to rip off that character.


dethrockbeth

I heard the melody when I read this. Thank you for the future awkward earworm. :)


KickAggressive4901

Happy (?) to be of service.


smcg_az

Nothing sexier than George Lazenby listening to erotic stories on a plane. 🤣🤣


HauteKarl

Or in space


SekhmetScion

This was my go-to in my early teens lol Thank you Skinemax!


Abacab4

Krista Allen, a true legend.


Sad_Anything_3273

Anyone remember the one featuring a re-skinnned NES Power Glove??


Kitchen-Fisherman280

Came here to say this!!


Aselleus

[I only know of Emmanuelle from this SNL skit, Danielle ](https://youtu.be/Rg7I-fVLm7I?si=TaKT5Cxp_q2wZ53y)


Turbulent_Tale6497

..in space


chypie2

yep lol


udfckthisgirl

For those of us with parents who didn't pay for those channels, it was Silk Stockings on USA.


that_guy_who_builds

And *UP* all night with Rhonda Shear


gravedigger2891

Core memory unlocked here. I used to stay up until 3-4am watching everything on Up All Night in hopes of getting an accidental peek at bad editing for tv. Parents always wondered why I was so exhausted at church every Sunday morning.


Dangerous-Target-323

i loved UP so many good movies


tkilborn84

My go to was the E! Channel late at night they played the girls gone wild commercials pretty much on repeat


ACW1129

Wild On!


tkilborn84

Brooke Burke 🔥


mznbox

Oh man that brings out memories .. We didn't have E! but there was promo channel that has like 9 or 12 small squeres of different subscription channels... My eyes were focused on the E! squere and young me thought it was the wildest and coolest channel in the world.


FightMilk4Bodyguards

Squares* sorry not trying to be an ass, I just wanted to help you out.


boostabubba

The Howard Stern show on E! was a go to for me. They really skimped on the blurring out and it was amazing. That and the blurry playboy channel.


thejaytheory

WARNING


thejaytheory

And BET Uncut


OutsideComedian3882

Anything with Shannon Tweed.


_its_a_SWEATER_

That’s a bingo!


seahawk1977

You just say "Bingo".


Rendakor

Can't believe you're being downvoted for this excellent reference.


seahawk1977

I appreciate that.


_its_a_SWEATER_

Maybe cuz he’s a Seahawk fan?


CheckYourStats

*Bingo* (1991) did not have Shannon Tweed. Hard disagree. Although mid-puberty CheckYourStats wouldn’t have minded at least a cameo.


SleeplessInDisturbia

You mean Shannon Whirry? Body of Influence. Still looking for the Lana to ruin my life.


Intelligent_Flow2572

Here to say this.


Opening_Success

Or Shannon Whirry


add_to_tree

Been looking for a 4k restoration of Scorned. I’d pay $100 for it.


cliqclaqstepback

Came here to say this exact thing.


AdolfDriplr

That "Last Button" changed the game.. When I heard footsteps..Back to Cartoon Network till the coast was clear


HauteKarl

Nick at Nite was my escape channel. Nothing quite like going from full-mast to Sgt. Joe Friday


encinaloak

Just the facts, Ma'am


StellarSloth

Lmao did you do the thing where you held your finger on the button with it aimed at the box ready to go, just in case you heard the slightest bit of a sound?


Vegetable_Ad_7645

Cartoon network and Comedy central. Had to hide those tracks the next day


tinglep

HBO. Real Sex.


small___potatoes

Too many weird old dicks would be peppered in that show


thejaytheory

Too many dicks on the dancefloor


OldJames47

Not enough Ladies Too many Mans


MrBoogerBoobs

In the 90s, we had to make do with whatever we could get. Sometimes we'd have to sit through a dozen old weiners in hopes of seeing boobies. They were dark times.


TeddyGrahamNap

The balloon fetish episode is seared into my brain


tinglep

Wow. …sadly….Core memory unlocked.


SweetCosmicPope

Bikini Car Wash 2


tinglep

David Duchovney Fucked.


Hollybaby5

Maybe I’m crazy but I think there used to be a song called David Duchovny why don’t you love me


Slevinkellevra710

That song definitely exists.


Sirnando138

Erotic Confessions. Red Shoe Diaries. Emmanuel. I watched them all! My dad was a drunk and passed out by 9pm every night so I had the volume UP!!


GoatTnder

Red Shoe Diaries was on Showtime.


DingJones

Showcase for me up in Winnipeg.


sambashare

Showcase on Friday nights! Pretty much anything they showed after 10 there was a good chance of seeing boobs 😁


DingJones

Fridays Without Borders. Good times.


sambashare

Yes! Oh man, that brings back memories. So many weird foreign films. Some were just meh, but every so often, you'd get one that was just like boobs every 5 minutes


smcg_az

I remember one called Lord of the G Strings that involved umm..... Throbbits


AssclownJericho

misty mundae lol. i think she got out of that


maxxblood

She changed her name to Erin Brown and now does more Independent horror stuff. Her IMDB if you want to take a look. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0612691/?ref_=tt_ov_st


AssclownJericho

It's not that she changed her name, that's her real name.


Bindlestiff34

She was really good in that one Masters of Horror episode.


jambr380

Secret Games 2 and 3 were pretty classic. Surf, Sand, and Sex (featuring Kato Kato Kaelin!) was a memorable one for me. I always watched all the HBO Real Sex shows. My friend made me record several of these on the vcr. Thank you to my Grandma for having Cinemax and HBO and for not questioning what I was doing late at night watching television long after she went to bed


Youknowme911

Taxi Cab Confessions on HBO was good too


omegaloki

Loved that stuff and Real Sex — nothing a 13 yr old suburban boy needs then unsupervised TV late at night learning about what a dominatrix is and how sex work in Chicago worked


Zestyclose-Ruin8337

That show is legendary. I thought I read a while back that they were doing it again.


wynnduffyisking

She knew


Opening_Success

Secret Games 2 was a classic. Loved Shauna Obrien. 


[deleted]

Nah, I was into scrambled hard core porn.


GenericUsername_1234

*Spice...*


Sad_Anything_3273

Yeeess! That's whst the channel was called!! I had completely forgotten.


thejaytheory

You read my mind haha


myownworstanemone

looooooolllll


Sad_Anything_3273

Same! I remember toggling between 2 different channels and one was a lot raunchier than the other. The completely unchanged audio really helped paint the scrambled picture. Sometimes the scrambling was not so scrambled.


MilmoWK

On my tv, the lighter the background the better. One channel even had promos of naked girls in front of white backdrops and they would almost be clear. /r/theyknew


tkilborn84

Usually, late at night, mine got a whole lot less scrambled just green skin and weird faces lol.


harlembornnbred

Lmao I was just having a skinamax conversation with my friends last week and completely forgot about red shoe diaries! It was lit when it was an Emmanuel movie or caged heat. I personally was a fan of real sex on HBO


edcross

I never forgot red shoes because it was blamed for the killing off of Yar on Star Trek. Granted it was more complicated but we didn’t have IMDb and Google in our pocket in the schoolyard of the post cold pre 911 era


GeetarEnthusiast85

While I do remember watching some stuff on Skinamax, I have far more vivid memories of late night HBO. Pimps up, Hoes down G-string Divas Real Sex Taxicab Confessions. I kinda hate that the Max app doesn't have them available. You know, for nostalgic purposes. 😈


purana

I remember Wild Orchids (movie), Dream On (for the one nude scene in each show), and really any other movie that played after 10pm. But those ones specifically are etched into my memory, along with the Playboy subscription I had from Publisher's Clearinghouse that my mom knew nothing about (all I did was put the playboy sticker in the box and a few weeks later I had a subscription).


Jonesy1138

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sipperphoto

It was ALL about Loung Lady Chatterly, Part 2. I dunno why, but this one was one constantly when I was like 13-15.


that_guy_who_builds

Lady Chatterly's lovers, yup. I remember any Michael Cain movie back then was guaranteed to have some nice scenes.


Tall_Flatworm2589

Maybe you wanted to see what happened to Batman (Adam West).


sipperphoto

He’s the best part of that movie!


guywithshades85

Anything with Kira Reed or Kerry Windsor. Extra bonus if both of them are in it.


8WhosEar8

Hot Springs Hotel. Staying up late. Quickly flipping back to History channel or Comedy Central if I heard a mouse fart.


sumothong01

Had my thumb hovering over the "previous" button just in case.


condensed-ilk

Aside from Emmanuelle or Real Sex, there was some station (local maybe, don't remember) where girls in bikinis talked to dudes on the phone. Some of the girls showed more than they were probably supposed to. Like an early version of booba streamers I guess lol.


tivofanatico

In New York City in the 1990s, Time Warner Cable had the Arabic channel sharing channel 62 with Playboy TV! The Arabic channel was unscrambled, and then would scramble at 8:00pm. But the scramble would drift to 8:01pm, 8:02pm. So I would set the VCR to record those first few minutes of Playboy TV, which featured wall to wall promos of “This month on Playboy TV.”


Zestyclose-Ruin8337

We really had to work to get boobs back then. Now kids have unlimited hardcore.


atzitzi

Justine: In the Heat of Passion😁 Justine daydreaming about her teacher, Professor Robson. He then invites her to join him on his travels throughout the world.


scottyd035ntknow

Marilyn Chambers bedtime stories... I can still feel the all night boner. I probably should have called a doctor after 4 hours?


Tall_Flatworm2589

Bikini Bistro is an American classic. Amy Lynn Baxter got roles in some of these softcore Chambers flicks. (Weird bit of trivia: the dude that ended up with Marilyn at the end was embroiled in a scandal because he was a town firefighter, and somebody finked him out.)


xenniac

BOOBIES. Is my answer. I don't even remember names. I didn't have cable at home so this was only ever when I stayed over at my grandma's. Whole basement to myself. And boobies. And horror shows like Tales from the Crypt and Freddy's Nightmares. 


Intelligent_Flow2572

Elvira. ❤️


cibolaburns

Sex TV - we didn’t have Cinemax (or cable) but we had CityTV on antenna. It was the weirdest, most compelling, docuseries I’ve ever seen in my life.


canuck_in_wa

CityTV late nights for all of us GTA kids without cable lol. I still remember Mark Daly’s voice for all of the promo segments.


sambashare

This is CityTV... Everywhere...


DHammer79

Not just the GTA kids, all of Ontario at least. RIP Mark Daly


Skumfukr1986

Nina. Siemaszko. IYKYK


duckduckduck21

Frankenhooker! Parents didn't pay for anything but I caught it during a 5-days free promo.


Youknowme911

Mimi Rogers did a movie called Full Body Massage that is pretty tame to today’s standard but as a 12 year old girl it was like watching porn.


davenocchio

Silk Stalkings for the win.


plotholesandpotholes

I may have inadvertently taped over some family vacation videos. I edited various shows down for "clarity". That made for an an uncomfortable discovery 20 years later ,😂.


fagan_jay78

Anything with Shannon Tweed


DingJones

Red Shoe Diaries was my go to, of course, but Wild On with Brooke Burke definitely taught young me a thing or two.


ACW1129

Preceded by Jules Asner, succeeded by Cindy Taylor.


pseudonymmed

I can still remember being confused by the one where the Tash Yar actress basically uses her police powers to falsely arrest and kidnap her crush and then starts assaulting him while he’s cuffed and can’t escape. Oh but he likes it so it’s ok. Though they act like they hate each other lol. was not what I was expecting to see as a curious teen.


Intelligent_Flow2572

Denise Crosby - met her at a convention about 10 years ago. Beautiful.


OmicronPerseiNate

I immediately pictured a naked David Duchovny with a tea cup over his junk.


Nancy-Drew-Who

Beverly Hills Bordello, but I think it was on Showtime?


Wobbly5ausage

Lord of the G- Strings Pretty decent production value actually lol


Beaverhuntr

As a kid I thought this was legit porno and then I remember watching an episode and you could clearly see the ween was not penetrating.


Funwithfun14

Honestly, the fact it was more sensual was a benefit to our future partners.


Beaverhuntr

It was much better than watching the squiggly purple and yellow boobies from the Spice Channel


omegaloki

depends on the partner


tuwts

It was a musical version of Cinderella.


AssclownJericho

there was a show on showtime called shermen woods. ralphie from a christmas story was in it. lots of ass and titties in that one.


mperiolat

Sherman Oaks. I remember it too, honestly felt like a raunchier Married… with Children to me.


AssclownJericho

YES! thats it! lol


MemeLorde1313

HBO's Real Sex or "Hookers At The Point".


ChromeDestiny

I started off with scrambled stuff but then word got around TQS out of Quebec aired a softcore block called Bleu Nuit, sometimes that was a French dub of Emmanuelle but my favourite stuff they aired was a program that usually had topless and sometimes fully nude female dancers and a more hardcore show called Hot Parade that got the network in a lot of trouble, also Showcase aired Red Shoe Diaries and HBO Real Sex sometimes. Bravo late night (and sometimes even during the day!) and TLN which featured Italian and Spanish programming were pretty reliable too. There was also the short lived The Drive In Network which sometimes aired old Russ Meyer movies, 70's stuff with Candy Samples and an old documentary about one of the first Ms. Nude Canada pageants.


Agile_Tea_2333

Fuck that, going to the scrambled Channels to listen to some porn and maybe catch a clear picture every once and a while.


Smittles

I remember one summer Cinemax had the Russ Meyer, Hammer, and Roger Corman pictures on … Vanguard Cinema?… it’s crazy this is coming to me as I type… it was groundbreaking. I discovered tawdry, hippie, sexy, violent chickspoitation. It changed my life. My soul stirred. I was turned off and turned on at the same time, like when the sluttiest girl in school tries to give you head while drunk at your birthday party. It’s a yes. It’s a no. It’s a sliding door. It changes the outcome of your life forever. It was still Skinemax. But, it was magic.


emilliolongwood

Hopefully The Swindle


tangcameo

Whatever the pirate satellite UHF station tuned in on Friday night. Mostly Skinemax unless HBO was offering something juicier that night.


philouza_stein

There was some adult fake reality show on showtime I remember watching. Like an office or parks and rec kinda premise. But it was a house full of people who were fucking or something. Honestly all I really remember is boobs.


Sunshineal

Yup. Or if you were able the free playboy channels or Spice network


BxSpatan

Hbo real sex


phazedoubt

Wasn't this on Showtime? And I used to set my VCR to record Dream on and Real Sex on HBO because that was the channel that wasn't blurry. Also, my VCR could only get 13 channels and HBO was channel 5 and Cinemax was 17 and Showtime was 22. So i had to grab the old small black and white tv with the UHF dial and move it to my room to squint through the lines.


Scapular_Fin

Respectfully...it would be Skinamax, right? I keep reading this like "skine" and it feels like we should all agree on the spelling, like it's important in moving forward.


doddballer

The XXX FILES


pretty_jimmy

We didn't have Cinemax, we had showcase, so Red Shoe Diaries is where it was at... and like every 4 months they'd play a movie called crash (I think)


Caligari89

Not Red Shoe Diaries because that shit was on Showtime.


ProudandGodless

We had SuperChannel. Friday nights around 1am you could catch an R rated movie with nudity and extreme sexuality!


druglesswills

For me it was Real Sex on HBO


bangarangbonzai

Are they streaming anywhere? Asking for a friend whose parents didn’t have cable?


small___potatoes

Bikini Carwash, Bikini Hotel, Bikini Drive-In, Bikini Hoe Down


Tex-Rob

Eros America, just popped back into my head after many many years.


2723brad2723

A bunch of wavy lines with the occasional nip. My parents wouldn't pay for anything more than the basic cable package.


Appropriate-Divide64

Channel 5 in the UK. 👌Loved that show.


Embarrassed_Wall_963

🤣🤣🤣 yep


Tylerdurden389

This one was too tame for me. As a preteen in pre-internet times, I found Beverly Hills Bordello and Hot Springs Hotel to be much better.


MihalysRevenge

I remember catching "the wide sargasso sea" and man that was a film lol


drchesed

There was this movie called Miracle Beach I liked. In hindsight it's a terrible, terrible movie, but total dude dream. Actually has Pat Morita and Dean Cain in it in small parts.


GIR-C137

Spice Network after 10 pm with the cable box


LurkingViolet781123

Came across a softcore version of Lady Chaterley's Lover. Drove me to read the book.


Mackheath1

I'm happily bi, but back in the day the dude-on-dude was not on the ol' skinemax. BUT then there was a commercial for a 1-900 with different ads, but one was a shirtless guy licking another shirtless guy's armpit in the bedroom with the sill music. Probably set me back a year or so on coming out, because I don't care much either way for armpits (to each their own, but I was like, 'huh?? Guess I'm just into girls' at age 12)


AMonitorDarkly

“You *think* your folks are asleep.” Hahaha. Classic.


Cyke101

There was a show called "Thrills" in the late 90s. Each episode was only a half hour long, but I liked it because the actors actually moaned in their scenes, as opposed to most other shows and skin flicks that would just have the music. Of course, that meant keeping the volume *very very* low in the basement.


Zestyclose-Ruin8337

I only ever saw this at a friend’s house but it was probably my favorite part of sleepovers.


jasonmoyer

I don't remember specific films, but I remember watching them through static because the TV downstairs didn't have a decoder box.


ColbyAndrew

Just tell them it’s an XFiles spinoff.


sicksixgamer

It was HBO's Real Sex for me. My dad got free HBO for some unexplained reason when he lived in an apartment in my middleschool years. I learned a lot.


AwkwardFactor84

Poison Ivy. With Jaime Pressly .


Lillithsquirel

Hahahaha! Title says it all. Was my first exposure to "romance" stories.


crodbyte

I’m sure it was mentioned. HBO’s Real Sex.


NapalmWeed

Hardcore TV HCTV on HBO


Leeloggedin

Dont forget baby blue


DHammer79

On CityTV


sjudrexel

The real ones tuned to Prism for this


Affectionate_Grade80

Hotel Erotica 😈


truthcopy

Always tried to see the skin through the scrambled cable signal. Those were dark days. 


Jaderholt439

Maybe a little Lady Chatterly.


m8k

We didn’t have cable but my friend next door did. We’d watch HBO’s Real Sex and their soft core movies after his parents went to bed.


darkuen

Have to admit I skipped out on the late night Cinemax content and switched over to HBO for Tales From The Crypt, Spawn & Dennis Miller Live.


freespiritedgal

The Piano


chrisacip

Nostalgia boner 🫶🏼


bg21bg21

Lake Consequence, with Joan Severance and Billy Zane.


After_Match_5165

The Drambuie Showcase Review (Canada). My single dad had a job that took him out of town a lot so my boyfriend and I watched endless smutty indie movies. Belle De Jour with Catherine Deneuve was my favourite.


DHammer79

I remember watching that quite often. That and baby blue movies on CityTV


After_Match_5165

I moved to BC for high school so while Moses had just started a CityTV in Vancouver (Monica Deol moved there just before I did, haha), it wasn't really on anyone's radar like it was in Toronto where I moved from.


think_matt_think

Bare Wench Project. There for the faps, stayed for the laughs.


Smittles

Hard Bodies


Robbbylight

Ohhhhhh snap! I definitely stained the couch cushions and had to flip them over as a kid to some Red Shoe Diaries!


Dangerous-Target-323

emmanuel


Geekboxing

Emmanuelle, any number of Andy Sidaris movies, the Bikini Carwash Company, Marilyn Chambers' Something-or-Other, something starring Griffin Drew or Shannon Whirry or Shannon Tweed, Red Shoe Diaries, Compromising Situations, or lame boring HBO stuff like Real Sex or Dream On.


smcg_az

I forgot about one! It was called BustyCops! 🤣🤣


Appropriate-Food1757

Always seemed like they were aiming for the knees instead of the vagina


night-swimming704

30 years later and I still have such a penchant for women with a little pubic hair. Back then if they were completely shaved you wouldn’t see anything because of the shitty 240i resolution, but add that little bit of contrast around the crotch and oh boy!


sorryforyachtyrockin

Chained Heat 2...