I hope there were furious arguments about the censoring of the very subject of this article in the video compilation.

I mean, clearly whomever have final say made the wrong decision. I just hope that there were others who knew that and made the point out loud.

You see lots of frontal -- only it's not connected to the full.

"Shadowboxer" - although it may be the same prosthetic used in "Boogie Nights". But still.

Angels and Insects? The actor playing Patsy Kensit's brother is shown jumping out of bed with a nearly erect penis.

The Dreamers

There were so many full frontals of him on Oz that when I meant him by chance on the streets of New York on the Upper West Side, I instinctively looked down at his crotch! True story!!!!

Kevin Bacon, Richard Gere, Harvey Keitel, Christian Bale and Tim Robbins have all done full frontal. Even if it may have been just a peek. I agree there needs to be some more of this. Who's next?

(try as we might) that scene in Eastern Promises.

mostly, male full frontal nudity is for gays anyway. Women would rather seeing each other naked. Look at women's magazines. nudity all over the place.

I believe both Gérard Depardieu in "The Last Woman" and Mark Wahlberg in "Boogies Nights" wore prosthetics.

The full frontal wasn't really emphasized although it was there, but it was a real movie with real actors with a lot (well some) actress hand on hard cock action.

they may have seen some associated structures on rare occasions.

the only reason men aren't showing it all in movies and in real life if that they don't expect to get a universally, or even predominantly, positive reaction from women. If they did they would be.

... and I feel a little crude even bringing it up, but...

I've never seen a vagina in a non-porn movie. Not once. No, a thatch of pubic hair isn't a vagina. It's an indication of the area where it's located, but it isn't one.

The closest I think has ever come to actual female genitalia that I've seen was Larry Clark's "Bully", and even that was just a barely revealing pair of denim cutoffs, and it's not a movie you want to see more than once (you feel crappy, not titillating, etc.). I hear his "Ken Park" is worse.

In conclusion, and to reiterate, every time you see an actual penis, you are seeing more actor on display than you ever get from actresses.

I am SO with you on Harvey Keitel! I've had a crush on him ever since Reservoir Dogs. For what it's worth, I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan too...

McGregor also got a full frontal in "Velvet Goldmine", which certainly seemed like a brave move to me since the scene involved him performing Iggy Pop-like in front of a real audience.

You are so right about Jeremy Irons and Damage. At the screening I was at the entire audience burst out laughing. Somehow, I don't think that was what the director was going for.

James Purefoy, Rome. Yum.

Why are we talking about this? Guns replace the penis in movies.

And it was a casual penis.

But WAIT, where are all the CLITORII?

Aside from the South Park Movie, which was state of the art CGI, you see no clitoris anywhere in the "legitimate" cinema.

How can one tell a dramatic story without a clitoris?

Everyone agrees that the penis is dirty, foul and unsuitable for pubic viewings, but the clitoris is so small and unobtrusive, how can IT be obscene? It doesn't spit like a penis so it is polite as well.

Enough with penii, give us the clit!

This article was written in order to please HBO and pimp the show.

Start pimping? When are you going to stop pimping?

The double standard employed here is caused by the differences in the sexes' respective anatomies. Specifically, full frontal nudity for men involves an unobstructed view of the sex organs. The same can't be said for women. The actress equivalent of an actor's full frontal nudity would involve a clear view of her vagina. That puts you in a whole 'nother ballgame, movie rating-wise. Unfair? Absolutely, same as a lot of things in life.

Your "Concert Club" ads are the most audibly obnoxious ads I've ever encountered on the web. If I come back on this site one more time, and get blasted out of my fucking chair on behalf of your commerce, it will be the last time I use your site.

-- flatent

Yes, be a good little asshole and rejoin your nematodes within the insipid leech horde that voraciously feeds like pigged piranhas at the squalid edges of free and nothing.

Stupid fucker. Like people are going to give up their goddamn life to throw porridge in your piehole for absolutely nothing.

Until people start placing value on what they receive from the internet no amount of distorted IQ power, yes, I'm talking to you Godin, will save the thing from eating itself alive and ending up as a bone-dry carcass wasting away to nothing under a digital sun.

I saw it during a college film series in Jean Genet's 1950 "Un Chant d'Amour," and it made me think to myself, "You're not in Thompsonville anymore."

Clearly these numerous recollections prove that full frontal nudity is not as rare as the writers believe...and surely their standards for what makes for a memorable dong appearance are rather limp. For sheer star power, for instance, how do you beat DeNiro and Depardieu's dueling banjos in Bertolucci's 1900?

Been a long time since I've seen it, but I think we got everything.

@blackpaw

In Brown Bunny and Caligula, there are erections. Maybe some others, I don't know. It's rare because it's a ratings thing, you know. But it's also true that in most of these, the unaroused penis wasn't used for comic effect.

BTW, I don't think prostheses should count, like the ones in Something About Mary and Boogie Nights.