The Flipside of Jim McBride's Website Mr. Skin

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

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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