The Flipside of Jim McBride's Website Mr. Skin

Repository of film and TV female nude scenes was launched Aug. 10, 1999

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Dangling at the bottom of Seth Abramovitch’s THR item about a billboard erected in Hollywood to mark the 18th birthday of MrSkin.com is this final paragraph:

Not immune to Hollywood’s gender-parity debate, [Mr. Skin founder Jim] McBride launched MrMan.com in 2014, featuring the goods on everyone from Harvey Keitel to Jake Gyllenhaal. But traffic has disappointed. “We were naive,” he admits. “We thought there would be a huge amount of women coming. But it’s mostly gay men.”

Taking McBride at his demographic word, a quick glance at the Mr.

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