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Male Nudity? Cue the Nervous Laughter

Posted May 11, 08 6:05 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Penises are in the Hollywood spotlight these days, with both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the new Harold & Kumar offering full-frontal male nudity. They’re guaranteed to get a nervous laugh because there’s still an uncomfortable shock to seeing one on the big screen, writes Laura Hodes in the Chicago Tribune. "It is almost a permanent adolescent reaction that is built into American movies,” says one film prof.

Unlike the toned, sexualized female nudity, the movies show male members buried under bushy pubic hair, slight in size, and attached to pudgy, everyday bodies. "America fears the penis,” says filmmaker Judd Apatow, “and that's something I'm going to help them get over. I'm going to get a penis in every movie I do from now on."

Source Chicago Tribune

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"America fears the penis and that's something I'm going to help them get over," says filmmaker Judd Apatow.   (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
Jason Segel has his heart broken while fully naked in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."   (Apatow Productions)
At a naked bottom party, more than 20 women are shown nude, but the only male in the buff is played for laughs.   (AP Photo/New Line Cinema, Jaimie Trueblood)
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