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We’ve all seen ’em — breasts. When I go see a movie that is rated anything higher than G, I fully expect to see some nipple.
So, I was prepared to see some steamy sex scenes when I went to see “Sex and the City” with a few of my friends. As a “Sex and the City” virgin, I was expecting to see all the leading ladies naked. No big surprise, since they have been doing it for years on the show.
The movie was all I expected it to be until a steamy shower scene popped up near the end. For those of you who haven’t seen it, there are shots of the rock-hard body of Gilles Marini lathering up as the camera moves up and down his muscular frame.
Then you see it. Just the tip, but never the less, it was there. Penis. I was shocked.
I thought the movie was just trying to tease me, but I never imagined it would never go all the way and show me the goods.
Boy, was I wrong.
This isn’t the only film in which male frontal nudity is on display. The johnson is breaking into the mainstream movie market, hard and fast. And it’s about time.
From Colin Farrell in the 2004 film “Alexander,” to Jason Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” more and more men are deciding to let it all hang out.
I’m happy that Hollywood is finally trying to show men and women in the buff equally, but it still makes me squeamish to see a guy’s junk out in the open — I think a lot of other women feel the same way.
Why? When a woman strips down, men watching it immediately go into sexual overdrive. A naked woman’s figure is hot, sexy and looked at as a means of arousal.
This is definitely not the case when it comes to the naked male body. My first reaction when I see full frontal? Laughing. It is not one of those, “that guy has a crooked member and shouldn’t be up there” kind of laughs.
It’s more of an uncomfortable response to something I don’t know how to handle. There are — of course — films that purposely use the penis as a means of comic relief.
Movies such as “Superbad,” for example, which featured numerous “dick” drawings ranging from a superhero penis to a banana with a head. The exact opposite of what we see with naked women on the big screen, male nudity is a joke while female nudity is all about sex.
Maybe men are starting to go full frontal because that’s the only way filmmakers can get nudity in the movies at all.
Many actresses are choosing to not do nude films, mainly because of the stigma and type casting that goes along with taking that path.
Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts refuse to get naked for the camera and up-and-coming starlets Elisha Cuthbert and Eliza Dushku also say they will be keeping their clothes on, according to an article in the LA Times.
So if the women won’t do it, I guess it’s up to the men. And in the future, I’ll try to keep my childish giggles to myself when a man bares it all and lets his little friend get his shot in the spotlight.
Ashley Larson can be reached at
alarson@theorion.com
32 comments
Then you see it. Just the tip, but never the less, it was there. Penis. I was shocked.FYI, never the less is actually nevertheless.