So, we wondered if this bias was an actual phenomenon or merely imagined. To investigate this we performed an abnormally high amount of research for this blog. We found 156 movies that feature graphic nudity (we are using “graphic nudity” here to mean actual genitals, not just pubic hair as the MPAA seems to define it), however slight, from either sex. As you can see in the chart, the overwhelming majority of graphic nudity is male. of the 156 movies, 154 show penises while only 21 show vulvae. To demonstrate the disparity even more, we counted the actual numbers of different,individual genitals. Had we counted the number of actual shots, the numbers would have been even more one-sided as most of the movies featuring penises have multiple shots of the same member, while the few with vulvae have only single, very brief, glimpses. Doing it this way made counting much easier and, somehow, seemed more fair. Despite giving this slight advantage to the fairer sex, the figurative scales bottomed out under the numerical weight of dicks.

Now that we have established that there are indeed many, many more penises than labia in movies, we come to wonder why is this so biased. I can think of two possible explanations. The first is a matter of size. It is simply much easier to show nude women without exposing genitals. There are even options for discretely covering them up. Hiding genitals on naked men involves very purposeful camera and body angles or extremely obvious prop placement. The second is a matter that we touched on in an earlier post; flaccid penises can be regarded in a non-sexual way. It is more difficult to separate female genitals from sexuality. One ex-girlfriend once told me, a bit hypocritically and self-serving, that we can’t compare male and female nudity because it doesn’t “count” unless they have erections. While this may be a bit extreme, nudity is nudity, there may be something behind it. Maybe unerect penises shouldn’t be compared to vulvae. Maybe, on an explicitness level, they are more on par with breasts (granted, a little bit above them). When an erection is shown in a movie it is definitely a deliberate thing. It’s not the same issue mentioned before that it’s simply difficult to show naked men without a little visible penis. It’s very much intentional. The same way showing a vulva would be deliberate. As a last effort to make sense of the issue, we compared erections to labia. This brings the ratio down a lot, but we are still seeing four times the number of erections.

So, if we can make any conclusions from all this, yeah, there are a lot more penises than pussies in movies. Why? I don’t know. It must be a combination of several factors; anatomically more prominent; in the case of flaccid ones, less sexualized; etc. But what it comes down to is that filmmakers are less shy about putting them in their movies and I can’t help but think that it has something to do with a thought-process something like, “With penises, men will be put off by them, women will recoil a bit, but no one is getting turned on by them. Now, put a pussy up close in the camera and that’s like pornography.” I’m not saying any of that is logically true (There are several instances of ejaculation in this movie sample), just that it might have something to do with it.

This whole exercise wasn’t scientific, but it really didn’t have to be to show that explicit male nudity is more common than female, and I’m sure the trend will continue. So, to put an end to this post and in keeping with this site’s traditions, here are some pictures from some of the movies studied.

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Soccer really is a very penis-filled sport. For more examples of why it may, in addition to the most popular, have the most dicks of any other sport, see our previous article on soccer and dicks.

Penis Sans Foreskin - The Preferred Way to Prepare A Penis?

This post is dedicated to my wife since, if she has to see penises, she’d prefer them to be circumcised. Of course, I have to tease her. But this does bring up a question which I’ll pose here. Is there a general female preference for circumcised penises?

Every girl I have talked to about this  has preferred circumcised, with the reactions ranging from slight aesthetic  preferences to being repulsed by foreskin. My wife comes from a part of the world where circumcision is much less common than in the U.S.. Despite coming from a culture not used to circumcision, as I stated earlier, she prefers it.

This reminds me of Playgirl’s launch in Russia several years ago. One of the most noteworthy things about the event was the buzz that many of the women would be seeing circumcised dicks for the first time. In fact, since Playgirl was founded to be “entertainment for women” and, when it more specifically catered to the heterosexual female demographic in its earlier days, the dicks featured on its pages were almost exclusively circumcised. It was only later, when the magazine began embracing its gay male readers, that foreskins started appearing more regularly.

So, do the majority of women prefer circumcised penis over the intact ones? Maybe we’ll get some female insight in the comments, just below the bunch of foreskin pictures to inspire them, whether they inspire affection or repulsion, we’ll have to wait and see.