As a gay man who is not squeamish about sex (at all), I wanted to puke when I saw that fake, skinny worm of a penis at the end of the film. I've seen lots of dong, so I know what it is SUPPOSED to look like. The string-like pencil dick pasted onto the actor in this movie was an EPIC FAIL...

If you go back to 1969 and the movie Women in Love you get quite a few full frontal views of Oliver Reid and Alan Bates, including a nude wrestling scene. In fact that is not the only Ken Russell movie to show full frontal both male and female.

If you're looking for quality films with male nudity you have to watch European films. Male nudity is not played for uncomfortable laughs. One of my favourites is Sex and Lucia.

The HBO series "Rome" was full of penii! The best one was attached to a gorgeous and oiled-up James Purefoy. Hot damn, you randy thang! Tobias Menzies' member was impressive as well, although I believe that the scarily well-hung slave that Atia sent to Servilia was sporting a fake. But, as Atia so memorably said, "A large penis is always welcome."

Two other films come to my mind which showed full frontal male nudity:

"Women in Love" with its memorable nude wrestling match between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed

"Angels and Insects" - set in Victorian, England is a story of incest with a memorable scene of a fully erect Edgar (Douglas Henshall) being discovered in bed with his sister.

I've always had a thing for him...

Finally someone mentioned "Sex and Lucia" (thanks, anon101). That erection in the end of the movie (yes, growing erection) is absolutely haunting (and borderline daunting).

As Winston Churchill said, "There is no movie that can't be improved by tits." However, the trend in movies and HBO-type TV shows toward showing guys' units is disturbing, disgusting and has got to end.

It's mainly British actors who are guilty of this. Guys like James Purefoy think that dropping trou - toga in Purefoy's case - makes them look cool. And the rest of Europe? Forget about it. They have statues and stuff so it doesn't bother them, and they just want to shock us with their advanced views on life.

I think this is repulsive. It's bad enough when they show some guy from behind, and this now there's the constant threat of this "full frontal" crap. Imagine relaxing, eating Fritos and onion dip while watching Cinemax when BANG! all of a sudden some guy's lob is up there in full Hi-Def. I still have dip on the ceiling from some foriegn flick.

Things have gotten so bad that you can't even relax and watch a pair 'o' knobs on TV without worrying about some actor's junk up on the screen. I don't even go to the movies anymore for fear of seeing a guy's cock in Cinerama. I'm gonna pay ten bucks for that? Get the fuck out!

I for one am tired of running screaming from the room. Straight men have to put their foot (feet?) down once and for all. This shit has got to stop!

Interesting article, but how could one overlook the incredible nude wrestling scene in "Women In Love" with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed? One hell of a film besides with Glenda Jackson showing her wares as well.

Methinks the Lady doth protest TOO much! ;-)

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I love a good title, and "The Dong Show" qualifies. My compliments. Also, in reference to an earlier post, I believe we get to see Sharon Stone's hoo-ha (and not just pubic hair) in Basic Instinct, no?

Several posters have made the point that (mainstream) movies do not show the vagina as if that justifies why the penis isn't shown more. This doesn't change the fact that women are routinely shown completely naked -- not under the covers, not in a towel, not in their underwear -- naked. We can't change the fact that male and female bodies are designed differently, but can we not agree that most of us feel much more vulnerable with nothing on? That's my beef. I don't have a burning desire to see every actor's manhood on the big screen. I'm just tired of always, always watching my gender be represented as the more vulnerable. I just want a little parity.

tolerance is one thing but who really needs the competition.

You need to see something other than your own point of view if you want to do any kind of meaningful analysis. For instance a naked man surrounded by clothed women who he knows find him attractive is feeling a LOT LESS VULNERABLE than a clothed man surrounded by women, naked or clothed, who find him repulsive.

I should have said

In a mainstream movie, you may see an actor's pubic hair, maybe his or her penis or labia, but you're about as likely to see a vagina as you are to see a prostate gland.

For at least a year or more now I've wanted to start a website called Nipples: As Seen On TV! that would feature screen shots of all the naked moobs and man nipples we see on TV. There is such a double standard there.

I believe some of the hesitancy of male actors to appear fully naked in movies is because the abnormally large penii that are a staple of porn have rendered the far more common 5 or 6 inch penis "inadequate". Even more potentially ego deflating, a penis that is 5 or 6 inches long when erect may be as small as 2 inches when flaccid. Six months or so ago, a popular male actor (Christian Bale?) was secretly photographed changing clothes. He was publicly ridiculed for having a small penis (even on Salon, if I'm not mistaken), and the ironic thing is that his penis was perfectly normal.

As for hetero men being reluctant to look at other naked males: my God, have you ever looked at hetero porn, let alone gay porn? 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.