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matc2
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 Posted - 10/31/2009 : 6:44:11 PM
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Site http://www.nudistworld.net/ where it is a lot of video and photos about naturists.
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firebase
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Posted - 06/18/2012 : 5:42:03 PM
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Old topics...
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léo
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Posted - 03/09/2013 : 02:41:28 AM
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A columnist in a heavyweight paper in Britain wrote a whole piece about the near-absence of male nudity in films. Her tone wasn't lascivious: hers was a philosophical observation and a question of why that should be. Nor was she known for fringe views or deliberate controversy. She said it said something of a society that it felt happy looking at female bodies but often uneasy about male ones. In fact, she went on, why a hang-up with erections in love scenes? Half the population has them and the other half is here because of one [my observation, not hers], so what was the problem?
It seems obvious that even women are happy looking at naked women. Look in any women's magazine here in Europe and there will be more female body than in similar men's magazines. But, while there are plenty of sex mags showing women, there are few that show men. Conclusion: both sexes appreciate naked women, albeit in different ways, but both can feel uneasy with male bodies. For men, there could be a worry that looking too hard is a sign of latent homosexuality.
Incidentally, I have mentioned this elsewhere, but why should it be that the incidence of shaving among actresses and even among male actors should be so much less than in real life?
happy days
léo
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NaturistDoc
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Posted - 03/09/2013 : 3:40:11 PM
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The relative scarcity of male nudity in the arts predates cinema by several millennia. And there is no shortage of dreary sociological and psychological literature attempting to explain this imbalance. Theories abound. Men are more 'visual' than women. Or women are just inherently better-looking than men. Or women have 'internalized their status as objects' and are thus unable to view men that way. Or blah blah blah. I can't avoid the suspicion that at least one reason was that it was mostly men paying for the art!
I doubt that women and men are equally "happy looking at female bodies", to quote léo's post. More than one study suggests that women tend to compare themselves to the naked women on the page or screen ... and usually not favorably. I'll bet men would react similarly to male nudity, but since men not only tend to pick what movie to see, but also dominate the ranks of directors and producers, we may never find out!
The larger question is not why male nudity is more of a taboo than female nudity. Why is ANY nudity treated as something out of the ordinary? Why do we go to such effort to render mysterious something that is completely familiar to us all?
I was pleased to be reminded by a previous post of the hilariously bad early-60s sexploitation movie "Nude on the Moon". It's a little known gem of movie trivia that much of the music for the film was composed and arranged by former 'Tonight Show' bandleader Doc Severinson. Strange that he doesn't mention it on his website. 
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