Monday, March 8, 2021

A TV Trend to Get Behind

When it comes to on-screen male nudity, viewers are often hard to please. This is especially true when it comes to the often scarce full frontal, Many complain there isn't enough male nudity in films and on television.  You can't really argue that when it comes to nudity, the nude bodies in question are usually female.  


I'm not really a complainer about the amount nudity on film, and especially on TV.  Growing up, watching TV in the eighties and nineties, there was little to skin to be seen, except for some quick flashes of butt on NYPD Blue.  Even HBO wasn't really the HBO it's become in the last two decades. Today, from my perspective, there's plenty of skin to be seen, especially if you know where to look. Sure, there are still far more women nude on screen than men, but there have been considerable changes over the last few year.

I don't even mind body doubles, not for butt shots, but for frontals.  My issue is how often the producers and the actors themselves spoil the mystery.  Some actors with films in their fantasy's, like to ensure it's known the penis in question wasn't actually attached to them.  What bothers me more than body doubles, is the increase in use of editing tricks and computer generated imagery.  It's rumored some of the nudity in HBO's Watchmen was created with CGI, and to me, I rather them not bother.  If you have to CGI in a body part, it might be better to just leave it out..


A trend I am liking however, is casting porn actors to show it all.  If you watch much television, you know penis shots are usually only done by day players and extras.  There are some exceptions, suck as Alfie Allen on Game of Thrones, but most full frontals that you see are not from the main cast.  Viewers of Euphoria know that most of season one's full frontals,  (and there were more than a few) were day player dicks.

It was a nice touch then, to cast porn actor Jayden Marcos to play Tyler in the second of the two Christmas episodes.  The shows were scaled down due to Covid, and each focused on just one character.  In Fuck Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob, the story was focused on the journey of Jules.  Tyler was a small part of her journey, but hot one, and one that required a (dark) full frontal.  Many of you might know Jayden from his films, many from GayHoopla. 

Euphoria

There are a lot of hot guy in porn, and many have both acting experience, and acting dreams.  You could cast dozens of naked Frat boys from Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher alone.  You could cast an entire high school body from Bel-Ami, except that so many of the guys look the same.  I'm hoping HBO and other companies cut out the CGI and find actors or performers who are open to showing it all.  .



2 comments:

Hot guys said...

Gotta agree about the fact there's much, much more female nudity on TV (and in films) than the male. 😏 Unfair and just not right because, there shouldn't be a difference. Not that I want or need male nudity on TV/in films but, the difference shouldn't be that big. 🤷‍♂️

Jayden Marcos is one of the cutest dudes in the adult biz at the moment. Without the earring, he's such a babe! 👌🏻 Saw him in Euphoria (or at least what could've been seen of him, lol). 🙂

JiEL said...

You're right here on American productions if I compare to French or Italian ones for even way before like in the 60's.
As I'm from Montreal, French Canadian, I could compare both.

Still now, in those «love, romantic» movies from USA, the couples are making love with the man still wearing his boxers.. The woman will be in total nudity but not the man.

Yes there was some more frontal male nudes in some US productions as you mentioned in Game of Thrones and some other but we can still sense a kind of puritanism to show full male nudity.