Male frontal nudity in film 


USA Today reported that there is growing interest in male frontal nudity in the movies. 

It is long past time for an end to discrimination against male nudity in film. I imagine that there are just as many heterosexual women and gay men who want to see nude male bodies as there are heterosexual men and lesbians who are interested in nude female bodies.

"As a woman, I'm glad. I want to watch male bodies," says Linda Williams, a film-studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley. "There is a growing eroticism about the male body that hasn't quite existed before."

Well, that latter claim may be true in film, but it is certainly not true in general. There is a long, well known history of aesthetic and erotic appreciation of the male body. 

Posted: Saturday - November 27, 2004 at 11:23 PM          

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