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- From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
- Subject: Re: Nudist TV segment
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:53:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.015544.23540@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> barlow@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
-
- >Wow....now I am curious...what movie did they show that has frontal male
- >nudity? Personally I have never seen this on HBO or in the movies that I can
- >remember. I think I would remember if I can see it because I am always the one
- >after a movie who complains that the woman was in umpteen trillon full frontal
- >nude shots but that the men NEVER are...
-
- Admittedly female frontal nudity is much the more common, but there IS a
- considerable body of film by now with male genitals visible. (Two
- books, The Bare Film Facts and The Film Buff Guide, also list these; the
- latter is men only.) Here are some.
-
- Women in Love
- Drive, He Said
- Buster and Billie
- The Player
- Last Rites
- Reckless
- The Blue Lagoon
- Paradise (Willie Aames)
- In Praise of Older Women
- American Gigolo
- Breathless
- Haunted Summer
- Some Girls
-
- but there are many many more.
-
- >which seems to me to be very sexist,
-
- Well, the movie industry IS a sexist business. Is that a surprise to
- anyone? :-)
-
- >not to mention what it says about the acceptability of the male body. I
- >personally don't understand the prohibition against male nudity....it seems to
- >me that either you're against nudity all together or that you are for it all
- >together...what's with the double standard? *perhaps I am naive :-)*
-
- In general, the male body is not prohibited, just not filmed. Two
- interlocking reasons: male producers who are more interested in getting
- women to strip on film, and vain male actors who see their penises as
- the mysterious symbol of their manliness and don't want to reveal that
- they are only human in their dimensions. And if they demur at required
- nudity in the script (as they often do), the male producers will
- understand how they feel, as they will not with women. A sad, sexist
- business.
-
- Jon Alan Conrad
-