"He hated how casual his teammates were about being naked,” Zendaya’s Rue says in a voiceover. Rather, it served as a realistic reflection of what a male locker room looks like and why the character Nate is affected by it.
The idea of 30 penises certainly set media tongues wagging about the teen-focused series but the scene wasn’t as sordid as all that. Male nudity in Euphoria caused quite the stir (Credit: HBO) The Leftovers, High Maintenance and Westworld don’t shy away from full frontal and its latest series Euphoria infamously features several instances of both the erect and flaccid male form. That says a lot about the time given that European films have always been less prudish about nudity compared to the UK and US, but nowadays the small screen seems to be leading the charge and HBO is at the front. “but I had to take it out because people weren’t accustomed to seeing it.”
“In my first movie I had a closeup of a very erect penis,’ he said in 2013. Pedro Almodóvar’s self-reflective drama Pain And Glory, starring Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas and in cinemas from August 23, not only left the filmmaker “emotionally naked,” by telling the melancholic story of an ageing Spanish filmmaker like himself but, also left one of its male characters naked too.Īlmodóvar is no stranger to focusing on the naked form and has included it in several films since the release of his directorial debut Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. “It’s very expositional and that’s why I wanted to make sure there was as much full frontal as we could go for.” “I think it’s an interesting kind of flipping on its head of this, a male character suffering through a very kind of humiliating sequence of his fate,” he added. “There are so many films in the history of cinema, particularly in the horror genre - I watch a lot of this stuff, and I notice there’s a pervasive culture of really difficult and humiliating and expositional scenes of murder and sexual violence towards women and you don’t really see that kind of stuff in films where it happens to men,” Reynor told The Wrap. Read more: Midsommar star says it gave her 'PTSD' The latter film’s director, Ari Aster, continues this trend with his second feature Midsommar, as he delivers one of its lead male stars, Jack Reynor, as well as several women, in a state of undress. Last year, movies like Roma, Suspiria, The Happy Prince, Border and Hereditary included full frontal male nudity that wasn’t played for laughs. And that manifests in us all giggling about a penis – it’s so stupid.”įortunately, over the last 12 months, there’s been an indication that the tides are a-changing and the destigmatisation of the d*** might soon take effect. “I think it’s maybe the dying embers of this Calvinistic idea that self-flagellating and shame and anger and violence is all good and yet sex and intimacy, making love is bad. “People were giggling about my penis as if they were school children,” Pine said about the reaction to his nudity. Just Google “ Outlaw King penis” and you’ll find that the first two stories are articles telling you exactly when you can see Chris Pine’s member in Netflix’s historical drama while the third gives an actual review of it.
Read more: How the MCU has to evolve to stay fresh in Phase 4 When a man’s private parts are in focus, however, it often sends the world mad. That’s not to say there haven’t been films depicting full frontal penises over the last fifty years or so, but we’re so used to seeing women exposed onscreen that it’s never much of a shock when a rogue boob or vagina comes into shot. The ratios are not good, or balanced, but it’s contributed to how much society has been desensitised to the naked female form.
Thanks to the website Mr Skin we know that in the 108 minutes of nudity from Game of Thrones, viewers caught a glimpse of 134 breasts, 60 bottoms, 28 vaginas and just seven penises. Back in 2016, the Annual Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California found that Hollywood movies were three times as likely to show nude or partially nude women as they were men.