A few misguided parents may have objected. The evidence is quite conclusive, prudery is harmful and it is especially harmful to children. The differences are not small. Try comparing outcomes for teenagers in the USA with say Denmark or The Netherlands. Pregnancy and abortion both about ten times higher. young people become sexually active about 6 months to a year younger. STDs much more common. For example Gonorrhea about 70 times more likely. Attitudes that have that effect can only be described as child abuse.
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The final frontier in nudity was male, which apart from Michelangelo's "David" was a taboo in the arts until recently. Richard Gere broke a barrier with 1980's "American Gigolo" as the first mainstream heartthrob to appear fully nude in a big studio picture. But theater was probably where it became normalized. In 1994, The Washington Post ran an article about more nudity on stage, fuelled by dramas about the AIDS crisis—like "Angels in America" and "Love! Valour! Compassion!" where the entire casts goes skinny-dipping on stage. A 2005 survey in The New York Times found that in the previous 15 years, 25 plays featured full frontal nudity, and 40 of the 50 naked people in those plays were men. It was only then that Hollywood caught up, as homophobia waned and male actors took bigger risks. Among the most daring is Viggo Mortensen, who played an entire fight scene upon losing his towel in a steam bath in last year's "Eastern Promises." This year, Jason Segel lost his towel, too, in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," though his nudity is played for laughs. Even Bart Simpson drops his shorts in "The Simpsons Movie." When Daniel Radcliffe does it onstage, it doesn't seem risqué anymore. Actually, it seems quaint.
With Sarah Ball
© 2008
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