“ Drive, He Said,” directed by Jack Nicholson in 1971, was an early film to include such a scene, while Richard Gere’s nude scene in 1980’s “ American Gigolo” helped to transform the young actor into an international sex symbol. In 1993, I studied patterns of male nudity in my book “ Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body.” After the old Motion Picture Production Code was replaced by a new ratings system in 1968, frontal male nudity in Hollywood movies in certain contexts was permitted. If you’ve noticed an uptick of male frontal nudity in TV and in movies in recent years, you’re onto something. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors. This article is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
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