Male Frontal Nudity: Difference between revisions

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We all know that the [[Moral Guardians]] of America loathe and fear [[Nipple-and-Dimed|the female nipple]], or yet more fearsome, vulva. But there is one thing that is even more vile, disgusting and taboo in their eyes: the penis. In fact, it's not just prudish Moral Guardians who get upset when one does make an appearance on the movie screen. [[Most Writers Are Male|Most writers (and directors, and producers, and their 'preferred' market of viewers) are male]]. And [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|(nominally)]] straight. And are somehow convinced that seeing a penis other than their own [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|will turn them gay]].

 

See Also: [[Right Through His Pants]], for when men even have sex and do other impossible things with their pants on, so as not to even hint that men ever get naked.

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== Anime and Manga ==

{{quote|Note that the Japanese don't take those adolescent boys examples seriously, seeing them as [[Children Are Innocent|innocent]], "boys will be boys" behavior. [[Shotacon|Sexualized depiction]], however... Still, this trope makes their mandated censorship of genitals of any age in [[Hentai]] look quite silly.}}

* Gokuu's penis was censored out of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' for the American TV release.

** The Uncut [[Dragonball Z]] get PG-13 certificates and they show badly drawn penises on young boys from time to time.

* The boys in ''[[Doraemon]]'' have this happen to them lots of times. Lots.

* The same with the [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] Gash from ''[[Zatch Bell]]''. He ''loves'' to run around naked all over the place, and swims in the nude.

* Scandinavians tend to view nudity as something natural, and thus the children's movie ''[[Ronja the Robber's Daughter|Ronja the Robbers Daughter]]'' includes a scene where eleven completely nude men are forced outside in the snow to clean themselves during winter. And that's actual snow the actors are running around in.

* Viggo Mortensen in ''[[Eastern Promises]]''

* ''[[Fight Club]]''. Tyler Durden's hobby of inserting random penis into other movies seems to be making fun of this trope. Also, the very-visible shot of an actual penis at the end.

* ''[[American Gigolo]]'' established Richard Gere as a sex symbol by having him walk around completely naked in one scene.

* Seen several times in ''[[Shame]]''.

* [[Will Smith]] in ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'', briefly.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Rome]]'' gives us Mark Antony (in clear view), Brutus (seen from the side) and Pullo (though it's rather dark). Plus the poor slave who was sent as a gift to Servilia because "a large penis is always welcome" (though apparently he was enhanced digitally in post production).

** And lets not forget the [[Squick]] when Vorenus drops the huge, mummified phallos from his moneybag - apparently a war memento taken from a fallen enemy.

* ''[[The Wire]]'' gives us Ziggy Sobotka's penis at least twice in season 2, once as part of an [[Establishing Character Moment]]. Season four gives us an extremely brief look at Omar nude.

** Not to mentioned the "blowjob incident" with Mayor Royce at the beginning of season four.

* ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'', mostly for [[Fan Service]]. However, [[Squick|one does get cut off]], ''and'' it was [[Gag Penis|the biggest one shown]].

* ''[[The Borgias]]'': Cardinal della Rovere (Colm Feore) doesn't have time to grab a towel while {{spoiler|escaping an assassin in a public bath}}.

 

== Music ==

* [[John Lennon]] and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins" shows them both naked on the cover.

 

== Theater ==

 

== Video Games ==

* Several times in ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'', a swedish game. It's mostly on disected corpses and a corpse-like creature.

* In the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series, the werewolf in ''[[Rondo of Blood]]'' (and every other game that uses the same sprites) turns into a naked, anatomically correct human when it dies (it's a small sprite, but there's definitely something there). Eventually censored in ''The Dracula X Chronicles'' (with black briefs, both in 2D and 3D) and ''[[Order of Ecclesia]]'' (with [[Digital Bikini|magically-appearing]] boxer shorts).

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