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Is society afraid of black nudity?
http://themuse.jezebel.com/nyt-essay...ilm-1788284045
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While white dicks have been growing in abundance on film and television, clearly having a moment, you may have noticed the deficit of black penises and sexuality being shown in such mainstream spaces. This trend is tightly explored in a new piece in The New York Times Magazine.
Past essays have covered the proliferation of white dicks trending in mainstream pop culture (Vulture noticed it last year). But in a piece published today, titled “Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality,” NYT critic Wesley Morris effectively lays out the flip side of that trend, which is the lack of black male sexuality being visualized on film and TV, whether in the form of physical penises or romantic narratives.
To emphasize how much Hollywood remains largely fearful of the idea of the black male body, specifically the stereotypically “hung” black man, Morris’ piece cites recent instances of white male frontal nudity in shows like The Affair, Girls and films like Get Hard, The Overnight and A Bigger Splash:
As commonplace as it has recently become to see black men on television and at the heart of films, and as normal as it’s becoming to see male nudity in general, it has been a lot more difficult to see those two changes expressed in the same body. A black penis, even the idea of one, is still too disturbingly bound up in how America sees — or refuses to see — itself. I enjoyed HBO’s summer crime thriller, “The Night Of,” but it offered some odd food for thought: The most lovingly photographed black penis I’ve ever seen on TV belonged to a corpse in the show’s morgue. Meanwhile, the series’s most sexual black character was a rapist inmate.
The piece, which gives tons of historical context (the tragedy of Emmett Till; D.W. Griffith’s infamously gross depiction of black men as rapists in The Birth of a Nation), further points out how the subject of the black penis and its meaning is approached when it does get airspace. When filmmakers decide to go there, it’s typically “imagined more than it’s seen,” Morris writes, or tackled in ways that cater to the complicated American tradition of black bodies being fetishized.
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Hmmm thoughts?
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Those americans only care about black people when it comes to sex. I'm sorry but i would like to see black people more respected by everyone and not because they are black but human. I seriously can't believe that the media is showing america as a developed country while racism is on the highest level there 