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We all know that the [[Moral Guardians]] of America loathe and fear [[Nipple-and-Dimed|the female nipple]], or yet more fearsome, vulva. But there is one thing that is even more vile, disgusting and taboo in their eyes: the penis. In fact, it's not just prudish Moral Guardians who get upset when one does make an appearance on the movie screen. [[Most Writers Are Male|Most writers (and directors, and producers, and their 'preferred' market of viewers) are male]]. And [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|(nominally)]] straight. And are somehow convinced that seeing a penis other than their own [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|will turn them gay]].

 

See Also: [[Right Through His Pants]], for when men even have sex and do other impossible things with their pants on, so as not to even hint that men ever get naked.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Gokuu's penis was censored out of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' for the American TV release.

** The Uncut [[Dragonball Z]] get PG-13 certificates and they show badly drawn penises on young boys from time to time.

* The boys in ''[[Doraemon]]'' have this happen to them lots of times. Lots.

* The same with the [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] Gash from ''[[Zatch Bell]]''. He ''loves'' to run around naked all over the place, and swims in the nude.

* ''[[The Littl' Bits]]'' censored some full frontal body shots in the two-part episode "The Sea".

* The original manga of ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' featured ''[[Dirty Old Man|Danbei's]]'' penis. Apparently [[Miniature Senior Citizens]] count the same as children by Japan's standards.

** The manga also pixellates early on, but later they don't bother.

* Baby Be'el in ''[[Beelzebub]]''. He's the only character in anime who can get away with full-time unpixellated male frontal nudity in a 7AM Sunday morning kiddie timeslot!

** This usually happens to [[Butt Monkey|Kondou, Madao (Hasegawa) and the Shogun]].

* In the 2nd episode of ''[[High School DxD|Highschool Dx D]]'', there's a single shot frame of Isei, while trying to cover up [[Ms. Fanservice|Rias]], has his nether region shown uncensored.

** Notably, there are also plenty of [[Raging Stiffie]] jokes (some of which ''did'' make it into the anime), but the penis in question is always covered at the time. Apparently exposed penises and erect penises are both funny, but an exposed, erect penis is obscene.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In Richard Corben's ''Den'' comics, originally presented in the comic ''Heavy Metal'', the title character is thrown into the fantasy world of Neverwhere where he and other humans from Earth become physical ideals and buck naked and most of the stories never hide it. However, that world is a place where nudity taboos don't exist since Den and his girlfriend, Cath, find that they are completely comfortable naked and meet others who are clothed to varying degrees and ''no one'' considers their nudity as anything remarkable.

** Lampshaded and parodied in the animated ''Heavy Metal'' movie, where he puts on a [[Loin Cloth]], saying that he doesn't want to walk around with his "dork hanging out".

* Dr. Manhattan in ''[[Watchmen]]''. There was a ''lot'' of controversy about this. That there is a giant flopping blue wang is all many non-fans know about [[Watchmen (film)|the film adaptation]], in fact.

* [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[The Fisher King]]''.

** And again in ''[[World's Greatest Dad]]''. This one was really [[That Came Out Wrong|blown... I mean stretched...]] I mean exaggerated out of proportion by the press. The "full frontal" part only lasted for a few seconds. <s>Darn.</s>

* ''Color of Night'' had Bruce Willis's penis.

* ''[[Walk Hard]]'' does this for laughs.

* Scandinavians tend to view nudity as something natural, and thus the children's movie ''[[Ronja the Robber's Daughter|Ronja the Robbers Daughter]]'' includes a scene where eleven completely nude men are forced outside in the snow to clean themselves during winter. And that's actual snow the actors are running around in.

* Viggo Mortensen in ''[[Eastern Promises]]''

* ''[[Fight Club]]''. Tyler Durden's hobby of inserting random penis into other movies seems to be making fun of this trope. Also, the very-visible shot of an actual penis at the end.

* ''[[American Gigolo]]'' established Richard Gere as a sex symbol by having him walk around completely naked in one scene.

* Seen several times in ''[[Shame]]''.

* [[Will Smith]] in ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'', briefly.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Rome]]'' gives us Mark Antony (in clear view), Brutus (seen from the side) and Pullo (though it's rather dark). Plus the poor slave who was sent as a gift to Servilia because "a large penis is always welcome" (though apparently he was enhanced digitally in post production).

** And lets not forget the [[Squick]] when Vorenus drops the huge, mummified phallos from his moneybag - apparently a war memento taken from a fallen enemy.

* ''[[The Wire]]'' gives us Ziggy Sobotka's penis at least twice in season 2, once as part of an [[Establishing Character Moment]]. Season four gives us an extremely brief look at Omar nude.

** Not to mentioned the "blowjob incident" with Mayor Royce at the beginning of season four.

* ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'', mostly for [[Fan Service]]. However, [[Squick|one does get cut off]], ''and'' it was [[Gag Penis|the biggest one shown]].

* ''[[The Borgias]]'': Cardinal della Rovere (Colm Feore) doesn't have time to grab a towel while {{spoiler|escaping an assassin in a public bath}}.

 

== Music ==

* [[John Lennon]] and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins" shows them both naked on the cover.

 

== Theater ==

* Prior Walter, the main protagonist of ''[[Angels in America]]'' strips down completely on-stage during an examination scene. The scene is maintained in the HBO miniseries. Joe Pitt also strips in a different scene, though the miniseries only showed a rear view.

* [[Ian McKellen]]'s recent run as ''[[King Lear]]'' had him going nude as a part of Lear's madness. Eyewitness accounts range from "well-endowed" to "old and floppy"

* A 2009 Berlin performance of ''[[Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti|Mr. Puntila and His Hired Man Matti]]'' (by [[Bertolt Brecht]]) had Matti undress completely halfway through the play.

* ''[[Oh! Calcutta!]]'' was the second show on Broadway to feature male full frontal nudity (in 1971. It opened in the West End in 1970). However, for some reason (most likely because there was ''a lot more nudity'' than in Hair) it's far more notorious.

 

== Video Games ==

* Several times in ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'', a swedish game. It's mostly on disected corpses and a corpse-like creature.

* In the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series, the werewolf in ''[[Rondo of Blood]]'' (and every other game that uses the same sprites) turns into a naked, anatomically correct human when it dies (it's a small sprite, but there's definitely something there). Eventually censored in ''The Dracula X Chronicles'' (with black briefs, both in 2D and 3D) and ''[[Order of Ecclesia]]'' (with [[Digital Bikini|magically-appearing]] boxer shorts).

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