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Monster's Ball Brings More Boobs on Blu-Ray

Until now, if you wanted to get all of Halle Berry's outstanding nudity in Monster's Ball, you had to scrounge up the European version of the movie—or become a member of Mr Skin, of course.

But November 4th marked two milestones in black history: the election of the first African-American president of the United States, and the first time that Americans could find Halle Berry's extended Monster's Ball nude scenes at their local video retailer.

The film was released on Blu-ray last Tuesday, and to Mr Skin's delight, the disc contains Halle's uncut, un-freaking-believable sex scene with Billy Bob Thornton. So even if you've watched your old copy of Monster's Ball hundreds of times, make sure you catch the new high-def pics and vids that are new today at MrSkin.com. See if you can spot the differences. It'll be like playing a grown up version of the picture comparison in Highlights magazine.

And check back tomorrow for Blu-ray pics and vids from Wild Things.

Orally Obsessed Obscure Oration of Overt Onanism Opens Other Orifices

In 1994, forty years after its publication, the world learned the identity of the woman who wrote the famed erotic novel of dominance and submission The Story of O, the most masturbated-to work of literature ever to win the Prix des Deux Magots.

Anne Desclos, the novel’s author, was a respected journalist and literary figure linked to writers like T.S. Eliot and Evelyn Waugh. She was a bisexual in life, and wrote the novel when her boyfriend, Jean Paulhan, suggested to her that women couldn’t write pornography.

Two years later, using the nom-de-porn Jeanne de Berg, another French woman, Catherine Robbe-Grillet (wife of Alain Robbe-Grillet, father of the Nouveau Roman), wrote the similarly-themed The Image, which inspired Radley Metzger’s The Punishment of Anne.

In 1975, Emmanuelle director Just Jaeckin made a film version with Corrine Clery as O, Li Sellgren as her lesbian lover Jacqueline, Udo Kier as her first master Rene, and (after Christopher Lee turned down the role), Anthony Steel as Sir Steven, the man to whom Rene gives her as a slave.

Just as his Emmanuelle did one year ago, Just Jaeckin’s The Story of O will get a special edition release on Blu-ray November 11.

Read more after the whip.