skin, adj.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

skin adj.²

(orig. US) featuring nudity; usu. in the context of pornography.

1977		S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 64: Impatient to act out a few skin scenarios floating around in my skull.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 14: It could be that the next generational struggle might be over certain aspects of the skin trade.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 119: An impromptu skin story with plenty of tits and ass to hold her audience.
1996		A. Close Official and Doubtful 356: She wouldn’t want to interfere with his enjoyment of the skin show at Villa Park.
2001		‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 114: But something about that skin show caught my fancy.

skin bar (n.)

a striptease club or public house that offers strippers.

2009

T. Black Gutted 61: The area we call the Pubic Triangle: skin bars and brassers all the way along to Lothian Road.

skin flick (n.)

a pornographic film.

1967		Current Sl. II:2 13: Skin flick: obscene or sexy movie.
1970		Times 28 Nov. 20: A profitable avalanche of skin flicks and stag movies, all totally explicit.
1977		S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 56: She became with me a fun palace in which [...] skin-flicks and three-act dramas would be enacted.
1985		(con. 1968) D.A. Dye Citadel (1989) 104: Skin flicks get old after the first showing.
1987		‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 14: An Italian named Joe D’Amato, who does some great skin flicks starring Laura Gemser.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: skin flick n. Art house film; blue movie; mamba matinee.
2000		Guardian 25 Jan. 18: Our censors ensure that few skinflicks reach the big screens.

skin house (n.)

1. (US) an establishment providing pornographic entertainment.

1970		Harper’s Mag. July 34: The skin houses were mostly playing short subjects – a girl taking a bath in a sylvan stream, a volley-ball game in a nudist camp.
1972		J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 29: Some gunsel I’d heard was hanging out in the skin houses and taxi-dance joints.

2. see also sl. compounds under skin v.¹

skin joint (n.) [joint n. (3b)]

1. a nightclub or bar with young women employed to entertain customers.

1940		N.Y. Age 21 Sept. 10/7: Who was the young man, being blitzed at a certain ‘skin joint’ went home to get his ‘owl-head’ and never returned.
1949		Arizona Dly Sun (Flagstaff, AZ) 10 Aug. 2/1: ‘Skin joints’ operating as restaurants and motels are giving Arizona an unsavory name.
1989		Albuquerque Jrnl (NM) 23 May 9/1: What would happen if toplessness became a trend in Uptown. Uptown seems an odd place for a skin joint.
1994		J. Wambaugh Finnegan’s Week 273: They’re going to a skin joint for a cheap night out.

2. see also sl. compounds under skin v.¹

skin mag (n.) (also skin book, ...magazine, ...rag)

a pornographic magazine.

1964		in Current Sl. (1967) I:4 5/1: Skin book, n. Girly magazine.
1970		D. Ponicsan Last Detail 6: Jesus Christ, Bad-Ass! Where’d you learn that? You really oughta be writing skin books.
1972		Nova Apr. 16: Others will know from the past that yours is something more than a skin-rag.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 91: Calvin glanced at the rows of skin magazines.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 41: Stack of skin magazines (All-Star Tit Queens and Bikes, Black Leather and Big Broads).
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 404: Only to find the papers forgotten a few days later beneath a stack of skin mags in his bedroom.
1999		Folio June 43: The books we’ve always referred to as ‘skin books’.
2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 58: We sat around playing cards, smoking, paging through mail-order skin magazines.
2010		J. Ellroy Hilliker Curse 5: Armand Ellroy subscribed to scandal rags and skin magazines.

skin show (n.)

a ‘girlie show’ featuring nude or scantily dressed women.

2012

W. Keyser ‘Carny Lingo’ in http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Skin Show — A girl show featuring nudity as the main attraction.