Men and Male Nudity (NO ACTUAL NUDITY IN THIS THREAD)

[Drakon]

Sometimes I wonder if some guys are so in love with their own dick that they're horrified to see any competition

This is why I love you. :heart:

 

[Mee]

I am a nude male on occasion.

 

[mclay18]

I don't find nudity of either sex offensive. I'm a guy, I'm not afraid of "turning gay" because I see someone else of the same sex naked in the locker room or anything like that.

Some guys are just prudes or overly sensitive. I agree that some guys don't like looking at others' wangs because they fear "competition." Ridiculous.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I don't find nudity of either sex offensive. I'm a guy, I'm not afraid of "turning gay" because I see someone else of the same sex naked in the locker room or anything like that.

Some guys are just prudes or overly sensitive. I agree that some guys don't like looking at others' wangs because they fear "competition." Ridiculous.

This, here.

I don't think that nudity should be so censored, and that goes for both genders. The human body is natural. I'm not offended by it.

 

[The Guard]

Ewan McGregor's gone full frontal a couple times. Just saw him do it in VELVET GOLDMINE last night. So has Harvey Keitel.

It's a penis, and if there's a reason for it to be onscreen, it doesn't bother me in the least.

 

[Cmill216]

Full frontal male nudity doesn't bother me. It isn't my bread and butter

Heh.

 

[squeekness]

I think they push the bubble sometimes with how much they show in movies anyhow. In Watchmen the blue wang didn't bother me in the least, there was a reason for it, to shwo how Jon was godlike and could care less about clothes. What did bug me was the near pornographic love fest in the owl ship. I get it, they did it, they had hot pig sex and it was glorious. I didn't need to see it, really. A number of independant films have shown me far more than I ever wanted to see.

 

[mclay18]

Dangling, vein-y, purple headed penises are jarring, just as are hairy (or even shaven) moist lipped vaginas. T

Not every man who does a full-frontal nude scene aren't... erm, excited enough (or not circumsized) for their... uh, "heads" to show.

 

[mclay18]

Where is my full frontal cutie pie? I ain't seen 'im.

There are... Heath Ledger in I'm Not There., Christian Bale in American Psycho, Peter Sarsgaard in Kinsey and so on. Mainly it's just independent films where actors are more comfortable stripping down for "art."

I also find it highly coincidental that the actors who are comfortable doing FF nude scenes are mostly from the UK, Europe and Australia. Most American actors only do rear nudity, and those that do show it all are mostly either old fogeys like Harvey Keitel or husky guys like Jason Segel.

 

[ComicChick]

This is so true. I remember hearing all about it with Swordfish, the first time Halle Berry showed her boobs. It wasn't that the movie was good (which it was) it was all about her boobs.

probably because they paid her a million to do it.

most nudity in films isn't really necessary to the film. how many times has it actually been integral to the film? i can't think of any at the moment, but suggestions would be good for discussion.

i saw watchmen. i read it so i knew it would be shown on screen. it wasn't a big deal to me and it wasn't anything that i focused on for the rest of the film. there were a lot of murmurs when it was first shown in our audience, but no one batted an eye when malin ackerman went nude.

 

[chaseter]

The ladies love Gonzo

 

[chaseter]

I am a nude male on occasion.

Pedo bear alert. All pedophiles must now leave.

 

[mclay18]

most nudity in films isn't really necessary to the film. how many times has it actually been integral to the film? i can't think of any at the moment, but suggestions would be good for discussion.

The graphic sex scenes in the foreign film Antares is crucial to the audiences' understanding that the married nurse is tired of her lifeless marriage and spices it up by having sex with a traveling doctor in a hotel room. In some respects, the full-frontal nudity (from both actor and actress) is both crucial and unnecessary at the same time, the former to show their vulnerability and loneliness.

Same thing with Christian Bale's scenes in American Psycho -- the shower scene shows the character's vanity and physical prowess, while the nude chainsaw scene shows the character is truly unhinged. (And Gretchen Mol's nude scenes in The Notorious Bettie Page serve the same purpose by showing the character's view of nudity as nothing to be ashamed, per her religious beliefs and not pornographic per se.)

But any movie where sex is a crucial plot element or theme (and is R-rated or higher), it's almost a cop-out if there's no nudity at all, regardless if it's from the back or the front. But the most telling example of gratuitous nudity is Love! Valour! Compassion! where it seemed that the director wanted to get away with showing as many wangs as possible and retain an R-rating. The story and content of that film just didn't seem that nudity was necessary for the narrative.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

movies with ***** in have more balls.

Well, obviously--unless there was a horrific accident, the balls are always inheriently behind the dick.

There are... Heath Ledger in I'm Not There., Christian Bale in American Psycho, Peter Sarsgaard in Kinsey and so on. Mainly it's just independent films where actors are more comfortable stripping down for "art."

Bale didn't go full-frontal in Psycho--the most he showed was his ass.

 

[ComicChick]

But any movie where sex is a crucial plot element or theme (and is R-rated or higher), it's almost a cop-out if there's no nudity at all, regardless if it's from the back or the front. But the most telling example of gratuitous nudity is Love! Valour! Compassion! where it seemed that the director wanted to get away with showing as many wangs as possible and retain an R-rating. The story and content of that film just didn't seem that nudity was necessary for the narrative.

i think some movies just throw nudity in there for now real reason. like Open Water, a movie about sharks, why do we need to see all the nudity in the beginning? i didn't see a point in that.

i've not seen the movies you mentioned, but i can agree that sometimes it does push the impact of the character's and what they go through based on the examples in those films

 

[Johnny Drama]

i think some movies just throw nudity in there for now real reason. like Open Water, a movie about sharks, why do we need to see all the nudity in the beginning? i didn't see a point in that.

i've not seen the movies you mentioned, but i can agree that sometimes it does push the impact of the character's and what they go through based on the examples in those films

You lie to me and tell me the ghostbusters luchbox full of ***** in Superbad didn't serve it's purpose

 

[MaskedManJRK]

i think some movies just throw nudity in there for now real reason. like Open Water, a movie about sharks, why do we need to see all the nudity in the beginning? i didn't see a point in that.

i've not seen the movies you mentioned, but i can agree that sometimes it does push the impact of the character's and what they go through based on the examples in those films

Open Water...cheesy horror movie, right? There you go. There's barely any artistic merit in most modern horror flicks anyway, so it only means that there won't be an artistic reason for nudity in them. It's to sell more tickets.

You lie to me and tell me the ghostbusters luchbox full of ***** in Superbad didn't serve it's purpose

Oh yes, that was hilarious. t:

But does drawn ***** still count as *****?

 

[Timstuff]

Let's just cut to the chase: penises are ugly. There, I said it!

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

i think some movies just throw nudity in there for now real reason. like Open Water, a movie about sharks, why do we need to see all the nudity in the beginning? i didn't see a point in that.

i've not seen the movies you mentioned, but i can agree that sometimes it does push the impact of the character's and what they go through based on the examples in those films

The nudity was the only good thing about that film

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Don't even get me started on horror movies. It's like the checklist for a horror movie lately is: Bad plot, terrible acting, gore/torture porn, and a girl naked for no reason every 20 minutes.

 

[Danalys]

Well, obviously--unless there was a horrific accident, the balls are always inheriently behind the dick.

that's the whole reason i wrote it like that rather than using any of the many other synonyms i could have used.

 

[pyromaniac]

Bale didn't go full-frontal in Psycho--the most he showed was his ass.

What? He did so go full frontal, when he was wielding the chainsaw. It was probably a little too fast motion for you but it is there. Although I have a pic of that so it is certainly visible in still motion.

As for penises, well I'm gay so I'm biased when I say they can't be the ugliest things ever to grace human perception. On second viewing, I counted how many times the blue dong appeared on screen. About 19 times !

 

[Cunning Stunts]

I honestly think the big reactions to seeing so many penises is one of two things in just about all cases:

1.- Immaturity.

2.- The fear that no reaction like an idiot will make others think you're gay.

It's kind of annoying, really. Every man here has [most likely] seen his own penis, so why is it so bothersome to see someone else's?

The only part of that movie associated with nudity that made me laugh was when Dr. Manhattan was meditating and his butt cheeks were split. I swear it looked like he was going to drop one... At least to me.

 

[squeekness]

There are... Heath Ledger in I'm Not There., Christian Bale in American Psycho, Peter Sarsgaard in Kinsey and so on. Mainly it's just independent films where actors are more comfortable stripping down for "art."

*adds to Netflix list*

I also find it highly coincidental that the actors who are comfortable doing FF nude scenes are mostly from the UK, Europe and Australia. Most American actors only do rear nudity, and those that do show it all are mostly either old fogeys like Harvey Keitel or husky guys like Jason Segel.

I saw that Seymore Hoffman dude's ass in some indie film. I had to wash my eyes out. It was scary.

 

[conan69]

I only seen female frontals in 3 hollywood movies in couple years, two of those movies had male frontals.

On the other hand I can prob name 10 or 15 movies in the same amount of time that I saw that had male frontals.

Personally I miss bush in movies.