Penises Becoming ALMOST As Accepted In Movies As Female Breasts

[matcom]

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Hollywood is fleshing out an old taboo: male frontal nudity.

Four current films feature actors in the full monty:

•In Kinsey (in theaters), a student played by Peter Sarsgaard seduces sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson). Says Sarsgaard, “We were just sitting around (during filming), and I said, ‘I feel I've got to be naked for this.' ” There was almost a Neeson nude scene, too. “Liam was perfectly willing, but for budgetary reasons, we cut it, unfortunately,” says writer/director Bill Condon. “I know, it is a disappointment.”

•In Sideways (in theaters), husky actor M.C. Gainey runs out of the house naked in angry pursuit of Paul Giamatti.

•In Alexander (opening Wednesday), Colin Farrell goes buff for a wedding-night sex scene in the Oliver Stone epic. Farrell also filmed a nude scene in his last film, A Home at the End of the World. But that scene was cut after producers thought it was too distracting.

•In Bad Education (opening today; review, 7E), Gael Garca Bernal doesn't bare all but comes close while preparing for a swim.

While penises are not yet as prevalent as female breasts, they are becoming more accepted.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20041119/wk_strip19.art.htm

[WoodrowFan]

1. gross

who wants to see that floppy thing banging agaisnt your knee.... BOOBIES!! WE WANT BOOBIES!!!

[hoosierblue]

15. You mean YOU want boobies

Male nudity? Yay! I'm all for good-looking naked men. Maybe even some not so good-looking ones. Straight women and gay men have libidos too, ya know.

[WoodrowFan]

17. ok ok,

>I< want to see girl boobies! ME ME ME BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES!!!

[southernlad]

2. Finally...

I can't wait. I have 4 new movies to watch. :)

[pagerbear]

3. They've always been fine with me!

[elehhhhna]

4. not so fast. nipples are always erect.

it won't be even until..oh, never mind...

[hyphenate]

14. I think that's more because it's usually chilly

in the studios.

I saw an interview with Julian McMahon on filming Nip/Tuck, and he was saying in one of his lovemaking scenes, he apologized to the actress who he was supposed to be having sex with, because he said he very likely to have an actual erection during the filming.

I think it's a fear thing sometimes with men on having limp equipment during filming--it's kind of scary being "out there" with only what natural gifts you have received.

[sniffa]

5. can you stiLL say "penis" though?

[underpants]

6. I remember seeing Ewen McGregor's penis in Trainspotting

I don't want to remember it but I do

[pagerbear]

10. Did you see it in The Pillow Book? Woo-hoo!

[arwalden]

7. Good!!! FINALLY!! It's About Damn Time!!

More penises! More male frontal nudity! Why are we such prudes in the US?

THIS JUST IN: The Bush Administration has just annouced that the Hayes Commission ethical standards will be put back into effect.

[nickinSTL]

8. I think it's about time

The taboos about nudity in this culture are absurd.

[Politicub]

9. Yay!

It's about time.

More penises in cinema, please.

[progmom]

11. I just can't get over this line:

“Liam was perfectly willing, but for budgetary reasons, we cut it, unfortunately,” says writer/director Bill Condon.

So their budget wasn't big enough to show Liam's penis? Just how big is Liam's penis?!? :wow:

Or they had to cut his penis...unfortunately? Yikes! :wow:

[Not_Giving_Up]

12. It's about time!

While I agree that it might not be the most pleasant sight if it's cold in the shot, or if the guy is just not thrilled, so what? Anyone who saw Gothika knows that female nudity is not always pretty. My husband complained about the shower scene. All those naked bodies, none of them worth seeing...at least the ones they showed.

Maybe if men start being objectified in movies the same way women are (and have been forever), thinking will start to change.

[hyphenate]

13. I remember Wild Things

with Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon, and Kevin did a nude scene in the shower. He was also exec. producing the movie, and on an interview said something to the effect that as an actor his contract had an anti-nudity charge, but that his status as exec. producer was higher than his status as an actor, so he overrided his contract. :)

[asjr]

16. And we can all thank Kenneth Starr for starting

the movement.

[WoodrowFan]

18. nominated for homepage

I just nominated this thread for the home page. think it'll make it?? :evilgrin:

[jpgray]

19. They should show male cleavage--you know, a little "neck"

:P

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. you know, the've been making Bruce Willis movies for a while now

and many of them were blockbusters. So I think we've moved past acceptance...

[matcom]

21. LMAO

:thumbsup:

[Phillycat]

23. Yeah, yeah, funny. But it took you an HOUR.

:)

[miss_kitty]

22. I'm shocked ! SHOCKED I tell you

to hear Colin Farrell would show his penis on the big screen.

[Placebo]

24. "Y tu mamá también"...

Was a great film, with Gael Garca Bernal in it. There was a ton of male nudity in it as well. (lots of female nudity too, for the straight fellas out there)