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When a person covers up their nudity using their hands or an object. Unlike [[Scenery Censor]], this is intentional on their part.

 

Can be done with men or women. Typically related to [[Sex for Product]] and [[Public Exposure]]. See also [[Godiva Hair]] and [[Improvised Clothes]]. Among photographers the breast version is sometimes known as the "arm bra."

 

== Advertising ==

* [[Keira Knightley]]'s latest{{when}} advert for Coco Mademoiselle, which involves her covering her breasts with a hat.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL8oGcSuCLM aussieBum - Jackpot][[NSFW]]

 

* Melfina does the hand thing whenever she's in the tank that lets her navigate the ship on ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. The Toonami edit gave her a bikini, which makes this kind of needless.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': In the Bathhouse Episode, Kamina uses Boota to cover up his naughty bits. In the same episode, Simon's parts are often covered up by his drill, which drops by about a foot and increases in size by a factor of three or so.

 

 

* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'s Genoshan member Freakshow covers himself with a stop sign after demorphing from his monster form the first time we see it. (However, he still has underwear, which doesn't really make sense... and is unnecessary, because of the stop sign.)

** That's a trope itself in [[Marvel Comics]] (''[[Exiles]]'' did it nigh-constantly)... Characters who've had their clothing destroyed will regularly be shown in underwear—usually underwear at least as modest as some teammates' ''outer''wear—yet have dialog indicating they're stark naked. Yeah, there's a history of Marvel editors realizing that, ye gods, there's too much flesh, and demanding the artists put the character in Y-fronts or a one-piece.

* In ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'', Verne covers himself with a cookie after he loses his shell.

* The lead character in ''[[Chicken Little]]'' loses his pants on his way to school and has to make a pair out of his homework.

* Ariel actually does this with Flounder after she's been turned into a human by [[Big Bad|Ursula]] in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', and is immediately swimming up to the surface.

 

** And later, in "Life Of The Party", he does it with a pillow.

*** [[Un Entendre|No, he was just covering himself, honest.]]

* ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' pulled a pillow version with Duncan in one episode as well. Only it was apparently not his doing, a female immortal bounty hunter had him [[Chained to a Bed|tied to the bed]].

* One later episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' has Lister and Rimmer being marched into see the captain after getting accidentally infected with nano-tech that disintegrates their clothes and hair. They use both hands to cover themselves as they are marched once again down [[Running Gag|that long corridor.]]

 

 

** ''Spy Magazine'' shortly thereafter parodied the cover using her then-husband Bruce Willis.

* Janet Jackson on the September 1993 cover of ''Rolling Stone''.

== Video Games ==

* In the [[Arcade Game]] ''[[Rampage]]'', your character is a human who's been turned into a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant mutant animal]]. If your [[Life Meter]] empties, you turn back into a (naked) human, and your character hastily covers their naughty bits and scurries off screen.

* In ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', failing the first section of one song results in Mr. Virus, the rival, [[Clothing Damage|ripping off]] the clothes of Cap White, the person you're trying to help. She promptly covers her breasts with her hands (by the way, this is essentially the closest thing to nudity the game allows, but it's still shocking coming from Nintendo, a company infamous for their strict rules of censorship in the early 90's).

* When standing still while playing the streaking minigame in ''[[Saints Row]] 2'', the player character will stand with their knees together, shivering and covering his/her privates with their hands.