What is Mr. Skin?
Mr. Skin is a subscription database indexing nude and sex scenes in commercially released films and television, running since 1999. Entries carry the title, year, performer, scene description and timestamp, with clips available to subscribers.
It is a reference work about published cinema, organised around one attribute.
Why is this listed when celebrity leak sites are not?
Because they are not the same category of thing, and the difference is consent.
Mr. Skin indexes performances that actors agreed to give, in films that were financed, released and distributed commercially. The work is public. Cataloguing where a scene occurs in a released film is film reference, and it is legally and ethically ordinary.
Sites built on leaked private photographs are not that. That material was obtained without consent and published without consent, and indexing it causes the same harm as any other non-consensual intimate imagery regardless of how many other directories already list it. Those sites are not in this directory and will not be, and this is the entry where that line is worth stating explicitly.
Is the database actually good?
Yes, and unusually so. Timestamps are accurate, coverage of mainstream English-language film and television is close to comprehensive, and the cross-referencing — by performer, by title, by year — works properly. As a reference tool for a specific question it has no real competitor.
Coverage thins outside English-language mainstream production, and the writing style is a persistent register of nudge-and-wink that some people find grating and others find part of the appeal.
What we could not verify
Our automated check was refused with a 403 by an anti-bot layer. No measured response time, page weight, ad-network scan or compliance confirmation, and no "last checked" date on the page.
What does the subscription include?
Database access is largely open; the clips and the higher-resolution material sit behind the subscription. For most people the free database is the useful part and the subscription is a convenience purchase.
Should you use it?
As a film reference tool it is genuinely excellent and the free database answers most questions. As a subscription it is narrower value, and worth taking only if you want the clips rather than the index.
