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Already one of the world’s most recognizable adult actresses, friend of Skin Sasha Grey is strengthening her mainstream credentials by starring in the new Steven Soderbergh movie The Girlfriend Experience.

Magnolia pictures has just released a poster for the film, out in Video-On-Demand April 30th and in limited theatrical release on May 22nd.

Sasha plays an escort who provides a complete “girlfriend experience,” including deep French kissing, bareback blowjobs, and “dining at the Y” for her clients.

Read more after the jump.

The cult classics by madman filmmaker David Lynch routinely feature female nudity and kinky sexuality (to say the least), but he pushed even his own boundaries out further than ever with Mulholland Drive, which opened in theaters on this date in 2001.

Mulholland Drive is in keeping with Lynch’s naked body of naked work, which includes Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway (and is bolstered by his hottie-packed TV series Twin Peaks), but this surrealistic saga of Naomi Watts as a reality-tripping Hollywood starlet on the rise also contains one of the most scorching lesbian scenes ever filmed.

At the two-hour, one-minute mark, blonde Namoi and raven-maned Laura Harring make wild girl-girl love on an incredibly lucky couch.

You will never be more grateful that ABC-TV passed on Mulholland Drive as a weekly series, which prompted Lynch to develop this lez-tastic big screen version.

Mulholland Drive will put and Eraserhead in your pants. Click the pic to see more naked Naomi Watts lesbian action.

Yugoslavian filmmaker Dusan Makavejev achieved critical acclaim with his first few complex, artful films in the 1960s, and then found his work banned in his homeland upon making the explicit international hit WR: Mysteries of the Organism.

Fleeing his Communist-controlled county, Makavejev followed up WR with his pivotal skinematic triumph -- the literally heady psychedelic sex-and-mess-fest Sweet Movie, which sugar-shocked theaters for the first time on this date in 1974.

Click the chocolatey pic to learn more, and to get a look at a heap of naked Sweet stuff.

Throughout the late 1980s, beloved Chicago film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert campaigned for a rating to replace the MPAA’s dreaded X which, at first, had been used to designate all manner of films containing patently adult content (such as the 1968 Best Picture Academy Award winner Midnight Cowboy).

In the wake of Deep Throat, however, the X-rating became synonymous with hardcore pornography. Siskel and Ebert led the charge for a new rating – they suggested “A” (for adult) – that could be applied to non-sexploitation films that were intended for audiences over the age of 17.

The MPAA ultimately concocted the NC-17 rating, which stands for No Children Under 17, and the first film to reach the public bearing its imprimatur was flesh-friendly director Philip Kaufman’s Henry & June, which opened in theaters on this date in 1990.

Henry & June stars Fred Ward and young Uma Thurman in the titular roles, as libertine author Henry Miller and his omnisexual gamine wife June. The story focuses specifically on their mutual sexual entanglements with erotic writer Anaïs Nin -- scorchingly embodied by Maria de Madeiros -- in 1920s Paris.

Uma and Maria explode in a lust-tastic lesbian scene, and the rest of the movie is chock full of naked nubiles (including Brigitte Lahaie) celebrating sexual freedom as they truly did – and as the NC-17 rating, finally, made possible.

After countless career ups and downs, maverick Hollywood auteur Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, Ready to Wear, Dr. T and the Women) released Short Cuts, his last great critically acclaimed hit -- and arguably his most towering naked celebrity triumph -- on this date in 1993.

Short Cuts adapts multiple short stories by esteemed writer Raymond Carver into a cross-section look at life in contemporary Los Angeles.

All that is well and artsy but what counts, and what puts Short Cuts on the short list of all-time great female nudity epics, is the unclothed work by Anne Archer, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, and Madeline Stowe.

Topping it all off, though, is the bottomless blowout by Julianne Moore, in which she proves she’s a natural redhead for two uninterrupted, fantastically furry, flamingly pube-ilicious minutes of bare-crotch magnificence. Click the pic for an uncensored eyeful.

Short Cuts will leave you long where it counts.

Virtually from the moment the fighting stopped, erotic takes on World War II became a mainstay of cheap porn paperbacks and lowbrow sexploitation movies.

Those boundaries (among others) expanded with the heady, high-class art film The Night Porter, which opened in theaters on this date in 1974.

Charlotte Rampling stars as a concentration camp survivor who comes across Dirk Bogarde as the commandante who once kept her as a sexual slave. Now he’s working in the lowly job of the title at a Vienna Hotel.

Rather than turn her former Nazi tormentor in, though, Charlotte revives their kinky relationship, and The Night Porter pushes cinema into areas that are as uncomfortable as they are arousing.

Controversy flared up around The Night Porter upon its release. Three-decades-plus later, it continues to provoke thoughts both intellectual and … otherwise.

Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni revolutionized world cinema in 1960 with L’Avventura, the sensual story of a woman who disappears shot in a radically original style.

That same year, Antonioni also helmed La Notte, another remarkable success. It hardly seems a coincidence that both of these breakthroughs contained female nudity.

However, Antonioni truly broke open skinternational possibilities with the swinging London mystery Blow Up, which showcased name starlets -- Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Birkin, to be precise -- in amazing, taboo-shattering states of undress. The result was a critically hailed masterwork and global box-office blockbuster.

Get the naked picture after the jump.

To accompany his arthouse feature The Darjeeling Limited (2007), writer-director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) cast the movie’s star, Jason Schwartzman, in a short film opposite Natalie Portman’s naked ass.

The title of that short film is Hotel Chevalier, and it premiered as a free download on iTunes on this date in 2007.

Ultimately Darjeeling achieved modest critical and box office success, but Chevalier will live forever as the first place the world got a great, clear look at Natalie Portman’s nude caboose. You can see that sweet Israeli seat-meat all over again, after the jump.

Hotel Chevalier is no longer available on iTunes, but Natalie Portman's naked ass lives forever here at Mr. Skin.