I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I’m pretty much attracted to humans in general from the waist up. I may or may not have been a mermaid in a past life.
Genitals in general do nothing for me on an erotic level. I’m not opposed to them, or disgusted by them, I pretty much take them as the necessary body parts they are, and appreciate them for their function if not their aesthetic appeal.
The grasping to find any way to hide the male body on film is borderline hilarious. Oh, in this scene they’re covered with sheets while they make mad, passionate love, next scene he rolls out of bed in a fresh pair of Hanes boxer-briefs. It’s magic!
I appreciated the sauna scene in Eastern Promises (link SFW, just IMDB). People don’t generally wear clothes in a sauna, so the sauna knife scene was done with naked characters. I had not planned on seeing one of my favourite actor’s family jewels, but there they were! Apart from a few “Aragorn’s Sword” jokes from my husband, there were no lasting emotional scars.
I won’t say I’m necessarily petitioning for more nudity, but I will say I’m not opposed to it.
That said, nudity in film and on screen is a hotly-negotiated topic between filmmakers and actors. “I’ll do the movie, but you get 8 seconds of nipple time, four seconds of rear nudity, and one second of frontal. For this I get X extra dollars.”
I can’t imagine a lot of networks want to pay enough to the male actor to get him to put it all out there.