There should be more male nudity in feature films.

[elshiva]

How can we promote more male nudity in feature films? Why is so wrong to show a penis in an R-rated film?

[Droopy]

1. I've often wondered why they don't do more full frontal male nudity in R rated films

I've seen it before in rated R films so I know it's not against the rules, but it's just not something you see very often. Maybe film-makers are afraid of the dreaded NC-17 rating.

[elshiva]

4. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story had a good

scene with a man's naked penis. I think it was a wonderful film.

Another good R rated movie with a naked penis is "Eastern Promises." Bathhouse scene, you can see everything, great.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. 28 Days Later too.

[elshiva]

8. Where in that movie? I love that one, but I don't

remember seeing a penis.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Very beginning when he wakes up in the hospital.

[LeftyMom]

2. I'm re-viewing Oz. That's TV, but there's a whole hell of a lot of peen.

Helluva show.

[elshiva]

7. Nice. Now I have to look into that one.

Thanks, for the tip.

Goodness knows I like a good erection.

[Connonym]

3. Good question!

They certainly like to have a lot of female nudity. It's almost like they deliberately gear movies toward men and don't really care how women feel about it. I'm totally not a prude but sometimes the nudity is just gratuitous and that pisses off my feminist side. If it's integral to the story I'm totally fine with that but I find most of the time it's topless scenes that really don't contribute anything to the story. Pure TITillation so to speak.

[DarkTirade]

6. I agree.

More of this please! :P

[UndertheOcean]

9. Hey ! where is the other half ?

[elshiva]

12. Not in the picture.

:(

[DarkTirade]

13. For now, just in the imagination...

but it needs to be on film. :P

[elshiva]

10. We can never have enough of that, but that

is not exactly what I am talking about. Let's please see his lower half naked. Not just bottom shots....

[Fox Mulder]

15. My guess...

is that a lot of the male celebrities are hung like Danny Bonaduce.

Just a guess...

[Robeson]

11. Who runs the movie industry? Women or men?....

...I know it's a rhetorical question, but it kind of answers why there is more female nudity than male.

[elshiva]

16. Yep, it's a male dominated industry, but still

women and gay men want to see movies too.... It's a suggestion.

I think the male dominated industry wants to obscure the penis or at least mystify it as some kind of power source, instead of a sex object.

[begin_within]

14. This thread is useless without pictures

[flvegan]

17. "9 Songs" should be enough for the year.

[Kat45]

19. I think a penis is more likely to not qualify for an 'R' rating.

It seems to me that things keep getting more and more conservative--and puritanical--in this country. I remember seeing it more frequently--though still not frequent--in movies back in the eighties than I see now. The NC-17 rating was created so there could be movies with more adult themes, which I imagine could also include male nudity, because the X rating had been co-opted by porn and they wanted a usable rating. Unfortunately, NC-17 has become a death sentence for a movie. Theaters won't show them; newspapers won't take ads for them (examples of the aforementioned "more conservative and puritanical)."

[terrya]

20. British actors are so much more comfortable with nudity than American actors.

I don't quite get why that's the case. Ewan McGregor, Daniel Craig among others have done films with full frontal nudity.

When there IS male nudity in American films, it frequently seems to be in some sort of comedic context. Very curious.

[Scout]

21. some of Christian Bale's older movies have what we're looking for! n/t

[Parche]

22. Then There Is Kevin Bacon

In that one film, the shower scene............:hi:

[NJmaverick]

23. I'm all for more nudity in films

If you get more male nudity, I want more female nudity.

[TommyO]

24. Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Also Sex and the City.

[LynneSin]

25. Have you seen Harvey Keitel's full frontal shots?

There is a reason we don't see alot of the penis in movies!