First film that seriously piqued your interest in the opposite sex.

[Alison Jane]

Everyone on this board =

[Mike T]

That's her! She was in the Paul Hogan Show a lot too; also TV series Cop Shop, The Young Doctors and Prisoner (aka: Prisoner Cellblock H).

Upon mature consideration and reflection, there was one unique British sex symbol that had a profound affect on my entire life...




Valerie Leon. That's all that needs to be said really...

[Ian Jane]

Lynda Stoner was in Turkey Shoot/Escape 2000, right? That's all I think I know her from off the top of my head.

[Mike T]

I meant to add "except Mike T." but forgot. Mike T to the rescue!

Thank you, thank you! I hope you'll all forgive me with some images from my (seventies Australian) youth? Ala...

Karen Pini


Judy Green (from more recently)


Abigail (circa Number 96)


Lynda Stoner (back when she was a hottie and not such a militant feminist)


Ms Delaney (back in the day)

[Ian Jane]

If I were an Australian girl born at the right time.... Yahoo'd have piqued my interest for sure! ;)



Coming back to reality for a brief second, it's not 'film' but I remember as a kid that I was very interested in my dad's vinyl copy of Olivia Newton John's Physical album. I also remember at one point telling my friend that I was going to marry her. Physical came out in 81 so I'd have been 6 at the oldest, possibly 5. Either way, she piqued my interest. I seem to remember the albm folding out and having a more revealing picture inside, but I could have imagined that.



A few years later I'd see Grease and and it'd all come flooding back. So I guess it is film related after all in a roundabout sort of way.

Why the fuck my dad was buying shitty Olivia Newton John albums though... well, probably for the same reason I was interested in them as a kid. The apple doesn't always fall so far from the tree.

[Todd Jordan]

I meant to add "except Mike T." but forgot.

Mike T to the rescue!

[Mike T]

...how sweet and lovable Aussies are...

Well, some Aussies anyway...haha... ;)

[Todd Jordan]

He sold lesbian cars. Maybe that was after he taught us Americans how sweet and lovable Aussies are. Can't recall.

[Ian Jane]

Definitely.

I had no idea Paul Hogan had a show. I mean, it makes sense he did something before teaching American audiences about knife sizes and walking on the heads of subway riders, but I didn't know what it was.

[Mike T]

Having had short think: I think there's just some "old school" Australian in me that doesn't come across as it should in the forum medium. We were a culture known for our larrikinism and taking the piss when I was growing up and something of that is ingrained in me. It's not being rude, condescending or sarcastic: it's just piss-taking, but I can see how it's going to seem completely alien to those unaccustomed to it or the '70s Australian culture that played a BIG part in my formative years. So, forgive my Australianism - it comes out sometimes as it's just part of my physical makeup and nothing intentionally bad is ever meant by it. Re: the below...

That said, there has to be ONE movie that stands out if you watched stuff with lots of nudity on Australian TV, doesn't there? I remember seeing Vampyros Lesbos uncut on CityTV way too late one night around 12 or so and being pretty impressed. Sure I dug girls before that but that movie made an impression on me in that regard, it was unlike anything I'd seen before (and I'd seen hardcore porn - something about that movie 'seriously piqued my interest' in the girls on screen in a different way).

...the best I can do, to play ball by way of context, is say that in my pre-teen years (before video and all that - back when cave paintings were highly regarded entertainment) the closest I can stretch to this whole idiom, that I admit I've obviously misread as a discussion topic, is circa mid-to-late seventies was perhaps the era where I became aware of the female of the species as pop-culture "sex symbol"? If you all want to Google Delvene Delaney, Lynda Stoner, Abigail, Karen Pini and Judy Green those were maybe the best examples of pin-up queens of my time that we all adored... ;)

Here's Delvene, from the Paul Hogan Show...

...does that help explain things? A kind of "halfway meeting of the minds" if you like? ;)

[Ian Jane]

That's all fine, seriously, I'm not mad at you or pissed off or anything, but I'm just not 'getting' your angle here. If it's not meant to come off as condescending then fine, I'll accept that with no further issue but can you see from my perspective why it might? We can chalk it up to one of those 'not everything comes across right on the internet' deals and move on if you want.

That said, there has to be ONE movie that stands out if you watched stuff with lots of nudity on Australian TV, doesn't there? I remember seeing Vampyros Lesbos uncut on CityTV way too late one night around 12 or so and being pretty impressed. Sure I dug girls before that but that movie made an impression on me in that regard, it was unlike anything I'd seen before (and I'd seen hardcore porn - something about that movie 'seriously piqued my interest' in the girls on screen in a different way).

[Mike T]

I'm saying I don't think it was the exception but if the emphasis here is on FILM, which you've stated it was, I'm puzzled why you keep bringing up your insistence that there wasn't a movie that didn't pique your interest in girls. If you were interested in girls at a young age, as some have also stated they were, wouldn't there have been a movie that sticks in your mind as a something that, in your formative years, made an impression on you in that regard?

Actually, no...not really. And you know that I use the term "movie nerd" as one of affectionate ribbing and not in a derogatory sense (how many times have I said similar and turned around to say "Hey, I'm a movie nerd too"?) Per the last paragraph: fair play, but I hope that you can see that, by the accents placed with bold type and italics, it was an off-the-cuff comment that was meant more as a joke than an out-and-out "blanket statement" of sarcasm? If not, I'll keep my humour to myself in future... :p

Here is my simple resolve for this misunderstanding, so people can move along with the thread: just like you don't get my humour sometimes, I don't get your wife's either. However, that doesn't mean I like either of you any less - we just all cross wires through commentary out of difference of backgrounds (and readings of context). Just one of those unlucky things...

[Ian Jane]

Ian: is not the title of the thread: "First film that seriously piqued your interest in the opposite sex"?

Yes, and the emphasis there, which is yours, is on FILM. Right?

And what exactly did I accuse you of? You stated "I was never so "movie nerd" that I was oblivious to an interest in the opposite sex until some movie stuck a pair of bare titties under my nose. But, as I've been saying, I'm obviously the exception on this here rather than the rule."

I'm saying I don't think it was the exception but if the emphasis here is on FILM, which you've stated it was, I'm puzzled why you keep bringing up your insistence that there wasn't a movie that didn't pique your interest in girls. If you were interested in girls at a young age, as some have also stated they were, wouldn't there have been a movie that sticks in your mind as a something that, in your formative years, made an impression on you in that regard?

And if you're concerned about smart arsy sarcasm then maybe blanket statements like "I am still amazed by this thread though! Amazed that, seemingly, I'm the only one here who took an interest in girls IRL when I was a kid, while everyone else appears to have sat around ogling videos with their school buddies. Like, wtf?" dont help matters?

[Mike T]

Ian: is not the title of the thread: "First film that seriously piqued your interest in the opposite sex"? Also, I don't get the aggression levelled at me because I responded to your wife's sarcasm that was directed at me first? I'm not interested in turning this thread into a slanging match, nor was that the intent of me posting anything I have in it so far. But if someone's going to throw smart-arsy sarcasm at me over something I've posted, expect me to stick up for myself. And a "rolling eyes" smiley IS sarcasm...

Obviously I read the context of the topic completely differently from everyone else here. This seems apparent, because now I'm having pointed accusations thrown at me for responding to sarcasm...

NB: "Give me one example where anyone here said 'I didn't like girls/boys until I saw one in a movie?' You can't, because no one did" read as aggressive to me. Don't shoot me because I took it that way, okay? It's just the way it reads as a response on the back of what I typed. I'm not asking for rationalisations or justifications - I was just throwing in my two cents, as a bit of casual input, before I got slapped with sarcasm for doing so.

[Ian Jane]

...yeah, I can read...believe it or not. Amazing as it may sound we Australians developed that skill as well, crazy I know. And to reiterate, again: no movie ever "piqued my interest", as the interest was already there. Which has been the point of every post in this thread I've made. I was never so "movie nerd" that I was oblivious to an interest in the opposite sex until some movie stuck a pair of bare titties under my nose. But, as I've been saying, I'm obviously the exception on this here rather than the rule. ;)

How do you figure? Give me one example where anyone here said 'I didn't like girls/boys until I saw one in a movie?' You can't, because no one did. The point was to talk about MOVIES that piqued your interest. Obviously everyone on the planet with any sort of functioning libido is going to meet someone in real life that will get that part of their brain moving at whatever age it happens at - but that wasn't, I'd imagine, the point of the thread.