Sylvia D. Lucas pens a paean to the male physique in film:
We love your strong, solid thighs and calves. Your penises in their wide variety of shapes
and sizes (and sometimes, angles), which, by the way, are just as enjoyable to look at when they’re soft as when they’re not. (Penises are no weirder for dangling there than breasts are for hanging where they do—all of these parts are exactly where they belong, and we very much like where the penis belongs, both aesthetically and on a more utilitarian level.) You have broad shoulders. Wide chests. That V shape as the back narrows to the waist.
Yes, we love the naked male body. And we’d like to see more of it in movies. We’ve been deprived for too long because someone, somewhere (probably a man who didn’t want to see naked men in movies) started the rumor that men’s bodies are ugly and awkward. There’s no reason for men to think women feel this way about them, or for men to have adopted the opinion, themselves. As much scrutiny as the female body has endured over the years, it doesn’t make me feel any better to know men have been made to feel their bodies are somehow unattractive or inadequate. Your bodies are damn beautiful.
Jason Segal, male nudity pioneer, talked a lot about showing his wang in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Money quote:
As long as it's completely flaccid, it's still a R-rating. It was very important professionally that it remain completely flaccid, but it was very important for me personally that it not be completely flaccid. You know what I mean? It's a fine line. You wanna be like 8% aroused.
(Image via Law School Ryan Gosling)
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