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First cinematic tumescence

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My whole family went to “Help” at the cinema in Wellington New Zealand in 1965.

11 year old me, sitting there next to my Dad, and here’s Macca pretending to play guitar but it’s actually a girl in a white bikini.

Oh dear. SOOO embarrassed. So aroused. “Lucky Paul McCartney” I can remember thinking.

There were other moments of course, mainly in James Bond films, but this was the first.

Of course I can’t link to the actual clip from the film but this link (with no audio) has a few glimpses.

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  1. As a child Hubert was … unusual. In his adolescence during the summer, in a northerly direction parallel to the earth’s axis, he would throw himself naked onto the lawn, and with that loathsome, blue-y Roman clock face tattooed about his private parts think about Jean Harlow very hard, and from the shadow cast tell the time with remarkable accuracy.

  4. Not quite the same thing but …

    Afternoon screening in Norwich’s Cinéma City of Betty Blue. About ten of us including a bloke with a long grey coat. The film opens with a long erotic scene. It became clear Mr Overcoat was pleasuring himself. The scene finished as did Mr Overcoat and off he went. I suppose the internet has made such experiences rare.

  6. At High School movies in the hall would sometimes be played. Arabesque starring Gregory Peck from memory and etched in my memory the voluptuous Sophia Loren. An all boys High School, the hall fell silent as all the blood from the rest of their bodies was pumped to the nether regions.

  8. Expresso Bongo. Went for Cliff Richard, stayed for Sylvia Syms. I was smitten and watched the whole film round again just for her (you could do that in those days). I was 13. Great film, by the way.

    • Probably the heaving bosoms of Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway in the first of Richard Lester’s Musketeer films did it for me. Scripted by George MacDonald Fraser, they prepared me for a lifetime’s appreciation of the Flashman novels mixture of swashbuckling and bawdiness. 1973 so I was 8.

  10. Cinema? TV? Pfffft! It’s comics baby.
    The fleeting glimpse of something thought provoking on screen or the power of an anatomically interesting drawing that causes you to stare. And stare. And, a little later, to revisit. And stare.
    Particular props to one of the Tarzan annuals near the end of the 70s…
    (Although, for the sake of completeness, the first onscreen highlight I can recall was the satyr scene in the Seven Faces Of Dr Lao..)

  11. Captain Scarlett’s angels did it for me. Destiny, Rhapsody, Melody and Symphony. I think Destiny was my favourite. I remember having dreams about them. (Too young for any swellings though, but definitely got butterflies in my tum).
    Their Interceptor plane was super cool to a 5 year old too. As was the captain’s SPV Spectrum vehicle.

    • In the Tom & Jerry cartoons, an occasional sexy female cat would appear – with accompanying sax – I bet you know the music.

      Tom’s reaction would involve leaping in the air, eyes on stalks, a klaxon AROOGA sound, panting, and pulling his “collar” out release an urgent jet of steam. I remember thinking “I don’t blame him”.

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