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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

The dong show: Top 10 moments in male full-frontal

Ewan McGregor! Jason Segel! Vincent Gallo! The men who dared to put the penis in pop culture

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 02:24 PM

WTF?

For real? The clip show was black-boxed? Who are you protecting from seeing penises? The Tweeners who are your primary audience?

I honestly can't believe those clips were censored. Kind of makes me reconsider paying for Premium anymore.

Friday, July 10, 2009 01:52 PM

on the subject of

penises and testicles, let's not forget the awe inspiring scene in "Step Brothers" where Will Ferrel rubs his testicles on his new step brothers beloved drum set. I heard they were prosthetics, although I was sure Will Ferrel would have volunteered to rub his own balls on them if the original drumset owener hadn't called his lawyer. I heard they cost 30 grand and Will Ferrel kept them. Also, "Harold and Kumar Go to Guantanamo Bay" had a lovely scene where the "bottomless party" goes both ways. I'll never forget my delight at hearing the stoners behind me in the theater go "oooh yeah yeah" when the chicks are running around with airstrips, full on bush, or totally brazilian, and just when they lean in -BAM! they get to see the middle eastern dude who's throwing the party get out of the pool so we can see the most luxurious pubes in the world practically hiding a cute little dongy. I had already seen the movie so I enjoyed the "Ewww.. gasp! ugh!" from the stoners who seconds ago were so aroused I was worried they might do each other. I've had two husbands and have a 10 year old son. All I see are dongs. No big deal. I do agree with Elaine though, how do you guys run with all that junk in the way?

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:51 PM

since one person only barely mentioned it...

Penises just aren't very interesting to look at - especially when they're flaccid (i.e., useless).

By the way, I think it's totally cheating to include computer-generated and prosthetic dongs on this list.

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:49 PM

Or Justin Kirk in

"Angels in America."

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:36 PM

What about Justin Kirk...

In the otherwise fingernails-on-a-chalkboard annoying Flannel Pajamas. I would have turned it off if it hadn't been for him. Hooeee!

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:28 PM

Angels and Insects

Don't know the name of the actor.

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:20 PM

"Sure, boobs and vaginas are great..."

It is, in fact, pretty difficult to portray a vagina on film. After all, an OB/GYN needs to put you in stirrups and use a speculum to get a good look. Or did you mean vulva?

Friday, July 10, 2009 11:40 AM

Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl

has an astonishing (and long) scene of a handsome young man trying like hell to seduce the title character's reluctant older sister, all the while using the cliches about how much she needs to have sex with him to prove she loves him, etc. The actor is fully nude and fully (arousingly) erect during much of this sequence, but this is not a porn movie. It's just French.

Friday, July 10, 2009 10:13 AM

As a woman

I always enjoy seeing a naked man in the movies, it just looks friendly. That's because I like the dick. (Pipe down, dworkin, not talking about you.)

Friday, July 10, 2009 03:11 AM

the dong show-censored

i agree with other postings.....why does salon not show the

frontal nudity? isn't it a disservice to the story to hide

the point of it behind a censor bar?

please think again salon.............

Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:14 PM

For the person who wanted to see erections

Try "Going Under," an terrific and undeservedly little-known look at a BDSM relationship: Roger Rees in the altogether, and altogether (or almost) ready for action.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:07 PM

but...

... what about Rip Torn in The Man Who Fell To Earth, which predated all these by several decades?

Thursday, July 9, 2009 02:40 PM

Uncut

So where do we see the uncut version of your video montage?

Thursday, July 9, 2009 02:30 PM

@ Edward Noodleburg

"Several letter writers have used the word "penii"

No such word. The plural of penis is penises or penes."

I stand corrected, sir. My excuse is my high school Latin is 55 years old, and I wasn't very good at it, anyway.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 02:06 PM

Jan-Michael Vincent

In Buster and Billie (1974). Towards the end of the film he appears in a full-frontal shot next to a lake (I think).

Thursday, July 9, 2009 01:16 PM

What Are We, 12?

What exactly is the point of a collection of clips of memorable scenes of male full-frontal nudity ("NSFW!") without any male full-frontal nudity?

After seeing "Life of Brian," my husband and I watched it on TV - the Comedy Channel, I think. We wondered exactly how they were going to handle the unforgivable (by their standards) scene - just cut it from the movie, or edit the scene differently, or what?

Well, they dealt with it by creating a moving blue dot that covered the actor's genitals at all times. To me this looked far more obscene, and drew far more attention to the forbidden zone, than simple nudity ever could. I feel the same way about pixelization.

I remeber being so impressed with "A Room With a View" and its swimming-hole scene, because an American film would have used carefully placed branches, rocks, and characters' arms to make sure we never saw their rather ordinary and human members. Aren't the British supposed to be the uptight, "Victorian" folks?

One of the "Austin Powers" movies had a very funny parady of concealment techniques, with an endless sequence of banans, balloons, and other such props covering up the characters' genitals and breasts. Then "Beowulf" came along - the scene in which Beowulf fights Grendel naked looked exactly liked that parody, but was meant to be taken seriously....

Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:34 PM

shrinking dicks are a real issue

if you have the kind that shrinks a lot when soft you REALLY don't want to be seen naked without an erection until after you have proved yourself. You can be average or even bigger when it counts but if you are a SERIOUS shrinker you will look like you are incapable of even having sex, or at least the kind any woman would want.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:25 PM

Almost all porn has a substantial degree of homoeroticism in it, although the average male porn viewer would vehemently deny this embarrassing if self evident fact

This is a gay/feminist/female fantasy. Men tolerate other men in porn because it is the only way to show the women having sex with a man which is necessary for the male viewers vicarious participation (and girl on girl is almost if not more popular which just goes to show how much men like women, two women doing it is hot even when there is no opportunity for a man at all, although of course they usually fudge this by having the guys show up later). When/if technology allows the male viewer to replace all the men in the picture with himself you won't be seeing any men on screen unless a guy is watching with his girlfriend (for the vast majority of men). I know there are some "straight" men who are bi as prison and online trolling for sex make clear but they are a definite minority, I think.

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